Tracking your visitors' location with PHP
If you are in a situation that you need to show different content to your visitors depending on their location, an easy way to do it is with #PHP using MaxMind’s IP database. MaxMind is offering commercial database of locations for IP addresses, but they also have a free product GeoLite Country http://bit.ly/yoPj7C It is [Continue reading]
12 Steps to organic keywords optimization
+George Aspland at +Search Engine Land has posted a comprehensive guide on improving your search engine ranking through careful curation of your content and code. His 12 steps: 1. Choose The Keywords To Focus On2. Prioritize Your Keywords3. Check That Important Content On The Page Is Getting Indexed4. Ensure The Indexed Text Is Unique5. Try [Continue reading]
Weekend WordPress reading
Just got this! http://t.co/GdRVvuWu Digging into WordPress +Chris Coyier and +Jeff Starr is 400 pages of WordPress knowledge. Just updated to cover WP 3.3 (and with a promise of free future updates forever!) this looks really good. Hopefully, I’ll repost soon with a review of the book :) Edit: just discovered the "All AJAX" theme [Continue reading]
Don't forget
For your #WebDevelopment checklist: Always remember to buy that stock photo you are using on your front page before going live :)
Login log for your WordPress
Here is a companion #WordPress #plugin for the Limit Login Attempts one I posted about before ( http://bit.ly/z3q1gM ): Simple Login Log does exactly that. It keeps a log of all successful or not attempts to login on your site. You’ll be surprised at the number of attempts (I certainly was when I found I [Continue reading]
Block brute-force attempts on your WordPress blog
WordPress on it’s own a quite secure #CMS but this doesn’t mean there is no room for improvement. A simple but effective way to make your #WordPress installation more secure is to limit the amount of attempts that can be made on your login page. This will block automated or not attempts to gain access [Continue reading]
Amazing: killing MegaUpload didn't stop sharing
Sharing sites like rapidshare, uploaded.to and hotfile.com should be sending chocolate gifts to the FBI. Since the closing of #MegaUpload they have seen as much as 3 times the traffic they usually have. Job well done feds :) More at TorrentFreak http://bit.ly/wyCOtK
Testing your responsive design
So you’re following the latest trends in #web development and have decided to develop your new site with a #responsive design. You quickly realize that’s kind of hard testing the site on multiple resolutions every time you make a change. +matt kersley has a nice solution: http://bit.ly/ycYno9 A simple setup with iframes will show the [Continue reading]
Mail your WordPress posts with Postie
#WordPress has a "post by e-mail" feature included, but it’s fairly basic: you only enter the access information of the e-mail address you are going to use and then pray it all works. #Postie http://bit.ly/yhJpi4 is the same feature on steroids. Here’s what more you can do it with it: – Test your configuration to [Continue reading]
Rolling Photography
Interested in taking a photo like the one below with just your iPhone (probably works on most digital cameras, at least mobile phone ones)? If your answer is yes, read this article http://bit.ly/xI3UT4 by +Takahiro Yamamoto
Amazing Cisco
What kind of mind decides that a "contact support" form should have a 128-characters limit? That said, when there is an issue with an account and it gets disabled, what kind of mind decides "let’s not send an e-mail to the customer about it, he’ll figure it out next time he tries to use our [Continue reading]
JPEGmini: Less bytes, same quality on your photos
Here is a way for making your website faster: #JPEGmini http://bit.ly/zb7QdM is a new service that compresses a JPEG file without any change in the quality. I tried some random tests with pretty good results. a) Flower photo by +Thomas Hawk : 2048x2048px at 964KB turned to 721KB (1.3x compression)b) "Bird" photo by +Elena Kalis [Continue reading]
Location-enhanced photos in your WordPress
So you’re taking photos with your mobile and posting them in your #WordPress -powered #photoblog but you find that you’re missing something. While your phone has included location information in the photo, it is nowhere to be found on your site. A solution comes with the GeotagPhoto #plugin : it will identify attached images in [Continue reading]
Auto-post Google+ posts on Twitter
If you have left Twitter for Google+, here is a way to stay in touch: ManageFlitter http://bit.ly/xmb2tk is a freemium service for managing your Twitter account. In it’s free service it allows for copying your public Google+ posts on Twitter. The process is quite simple, you create an account with your Twitter credentials and just [Continue reading]
Lies and money
by +Guy Kawasaki Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs1. “Our projections are conservative.”2. “Jupiter says our market will be $50 billion in ten years.”3. “Several Fortune 500 companies are set to do business with us.”4. “No one else can do what we’re doing.”5. “Hurry up because other investors are about to do our deal.”6. “Our product [Continue reading]
Building a website in 2012?
If you are planning on developing a new website, here as some concepts (some old, some new) on how to go at it: – Think responsively – Even if you’re not implementing a full responsive design, simply thinking in responsive terms goes a long way to achieving usable universal design.– Think touch-first – A button [Continue reading]
25 Universities and Colleges Offering Free Courses Online
See also http://opencontent.org/ocwfinder/If you have trouble accessing the link below here it is http://freevideolectures.com/blog/2012/01/universities-colleges-offering-free-courses-online/ Reshared post from +Michelle Marie 25 Universities and Colleges Offering Free Courses Online Open courseware offered by top universities allow self-learners to access high quality educational materials for no cost. Whether expanding your knowledge on a variety of topics or sampling [Continue reading]
Escaping Flickr
I previously http://bit.ly/x0KSf0 wrote about my troubles with Flickr: my Pro account expired (Flickr cared so much about keeping me as a client that it sent me a total 1 (one) mail about it) and according to Flickr policy I could only access only the 200 most recents og my photos. The solution (according to [Continue reading]
The ultimate in Troll technology
You automated our factories – which took our jobs.You automated our travel agents – which took our jobs.You automated buying books – and closed our bookstores.You gave us automated checkout machines at shopping centers – which took our jobs.You automated our skilled radiologists work – which took our jobs.You automated our accounting – which took [Continue reading]
The dangers of a pixel
Designing web sites for mobile devices may not be as straightforward as you think as it is, thanks to hardware manufacturers increasing pixel densities in modern phones and tables. See an example in the image below: a 16px font size is different on Galaxy Tab from a Kindle Fire. Luckily there is a solution although [Continue reading]
Easy Google Maps on your WordPress
My #WordPress #plugin discovery of the day: MapPress by Chris Richardson (find it on WordPress.org http://bit.ly/zgNHrR or the developer’s site http://bit.ly/zmMgHa)You can easily add maps on your posts and pages, full with multiple markers, html descriptions, directions, all the usual Google Maps control, etc. It’s free (which covers most uses) with an affordable pro version [Continue reading]
Around the World in 5 Minutes
An awesome #time-lapse video by photographer, Kein Lam. Each two-second scene is comprised of about 40 to 60 photographs. More on his site http://kienlam.net/around-the-world (currently down due to heavy load :))
Advancing the HTML experience
www.mycookingdiary.com by +Mike Matas is great example of what you can do (and how to do it properly) with #HTML and #CSS today: – A continuous user experience using AJAX to keep the user engaged. However, each "slide" has it’s own URL. This means you can bookmark it, share it, etc.– Animation – but on [Continue reading]
Intro to Google Analytics
.Net magazine has a great article on how to use Google Analytics beyond simply checking your pageview and visitor numbers http://bit.ly/wY2ZxS Check it out! Given the opportunity, a warning on the new version of #GoogleAnalytics: not every feature of the old version has been transferred. For example the new version is no longer exporting PDF [Continue reading]
Your Google+ followers on a map
www.Circlecount.com keeps on improving, this is a new feature that will show the location of your Google+ followers round the world. You also get a per country analysis, as well as gender stats.