Web Development
WordPress Ping List
Here is a recommended ping list for a WordPress Blog to automatically notify internet sites when new posts are added or changes made. I created this list from my personal experience and various sources on the internet. Every time you post on your wordpress blog these services will notify Blog search engines that you have…
Magento – Claims to be the fastest growing ecommerce platform!
We plan to try Magento in January 2010 because it seems more robust than SquirrelCart. The following posts explains our reasons for using Magento ecommerce.
6 Very Useful (and SEO Friendly) jQuery Website Animation Techniques
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…
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…
Creating an exit survey using jQuery and Zend Framework
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
