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Entries Tagged as 'Web Development'

StumbleUpon Button

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

StumbleUpon is a GREAT site for discovering other websites and promoting your own.  They do have a couple ways to add sites and even have buttons of your own.  But what if you want to automatically include a button but don’t want to edit the page each time? I’ve a little javascript to do such [...]

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Tags: Web Development · Websites

Difficult CSS Layout Question

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments

I can often figure out how to make a CSS layout or in worst case patch it with tables. But this is REALLY tough… I haven’t found a way to do it. Can you? I did come up with some tricks by creating small bits in each corner but still [...]

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Tags: Web Development

Hardening Your Wordpress Blog

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

As I was going through my blog today I found that there was a interesting article on securing your Wordpress blog.  It was a bit on the light side in some ways as it was a critique of another article but it did give me some help in protecting my blog even more.  Take a [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

Adsense makes a lot more sense

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Over the next couple weeks Google will be doing a phased rollout of  a NEW Adsense feature.  Where you can create Adsense code and then modify the way the ads display from the Adsense without changing the code on the pages.   This will save a LOT of time for those who like to change the [...]

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Tags: EBusiness · Web Development

robots.txt SciFi book OR Helpful website tool?

October 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Often when going though web error logs of clients I find that they are usually missing a robots.txt file. Most people don’t see it and it’s one of those things that falls through the cracks in the excitement of building a website.
There are hundreds of ways to build a robots.txt file but for the [...]

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Tags: Search Engines · Web Development

Getting Colors from ANYWHERE on your screen

October 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Have you ever had the problem of finding a color on a web page and not really knowing how to do it. Yes you can take a screen shot past it into a graphics editor and see if you can ‘eye-dropper’ the color but there are is a free application that works great to snag [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

HTTP wha?

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Have you ever asked yourself “What is HTTP?” often people don’t but it’s used by EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET! So read on about this simple yet pervasive protocol on the Internet.

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Tags: Web Development