Alain Fontaine’s Jabberbox

The atHome Group marketing and IT teams are currently setting up a real-estate information and news blog based on WordPress. The blog will have various objectives:

• Electronically publish information that atHome Group previously published in their paper magazines, like the famous “Immo Stats”, a complete price guide to luxembourgish real-estate.
• Inform and train agents about the existing and new features of the real-estate portals operated by atHome Group.
• Publish researched and valuable articles about the real-estate business and economy in the countries atHome operates (Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Germany).

Read on to find out why we choose WordPress as our blog system, and what plugins I think are interesting.

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In one of my earlier posts, I explained how I setup Squid to accelerate a remote photo serving appliance that is connected to the Internet over a slow 512Kbit/s ADSL line. I am now using the same setup to accelerate my Wordpress blog. The results are quite stunning. Read on to find out more and see some performance results…

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