6 Very Useful (and SEO Friendly) jQuery Website An...

How do I animate my website while still keeping it SEO friendly? When most people visit websites, they assume the animated material is Flash.  That’s not always the case.  Due to the growing popularity of JavaScript frameworks, there are now a variety of exciting options for incorporating animations and animated material into your website that don’t involve Flash, which can’t be read by search engines. You want...

A Bash Shell Script to do Multiple Whois Lookups...

On a recent project, I was given a list of about 30 domains to redirect to a new site.  I needed to get a handle on where the domains were registered and where the DNS was hosted.  I could have spent a lot of time typing “whois domain-name.com” into the terminal of my Mac, or write a shell script to do the lookups for me and write the results to a file that I could quickly examine.  I already had all the...

Creating an exit survey using jQuery and Zend Fram...

One of our clients was looking at his Google Analytics data and noticed that he was getting a high bounce rate on his site’s contact page. Naturally, he wanted to know why, so he asked us to create an exit survey that pops up when a user navigates away from the page. So, for example, when a user comes to the contact page, then clicks away to another page, they’re presented with a dialog box that looks like...

Fix WP Post Thumbnail JSON Response Parse Errors...

I’ve been using Stanley Yeoh’s great WP Post Thumbnail plugin for quite some time now.  It provides an easy to use interface for cropping and editing post thumbnails for use in your custom WordPress themes.  He’s recently released a beta version of the plugin for testing with the latest 2.8 release of WordPress. UPDATE: It appears this is broken again when upgrading to WordPress version 2.9.2.  Currently...

Moving WordPress to a New Directory or Domain...

When you build a blog or site using WordPress, you usually develop it in a subdiretory of the domain where it will ultimately reside or on a completely separate development server with a different domain or even just an IP address.  When you first install WordPress in your development environment, you have to tell it the URL where it will reside even though this will change when the site is pushed live. There’s...

A Cross-browser Rounded Corner Solution...

After much trial and error, deliberation, research, and head banging on my desk, I’ve finally come up with a solution to the programmer’s age-old cross-browser rounded corners dilemma that works for me. The dilemma, of course, is that it’s the year 2009 and rounded corners can be implemented in EVERY modern-day browser except our friend Internet Explorer. Even the most recent incarnation of IE (v8) STILL...

Social Bookmarking Submission URLs...

A recent project I worked on required that I implement 8-10 “social bookmarking” links. You know the cryptic little links or icons you see on many sites that say “share this on [random site here]?” Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, Myspace, etc. Nowadays they’re on everyone’s blog and they’re making their way onto “normal” web sites as well. For good reason too because they’re...

Microsoft adCenter join hands with Wall Street Jou...

Microsoft announced on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, on the adCenter Official Blog that Microsoft adcenter and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network reached an agreement in which Microsoft will become the exclusive provider of contextual and paid search advertisements for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (WSJDN). Wall Street Journal Digital Network includes many popular websites including WSJ.com, Barrons.com,...