Development
Yahoo Web Site Performance Best Practices
A very good overview of best practices for speeding up your web site from the Yahoo! Developer Network. Very good resource: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
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Practical writing on WordPress, headless architecture, performance, and the craft of building sites that last.
SEO
An SEO Infographic from Matt at Datadial
A pretty well done infographic covering SEO. Every client of mine should see this (be sure to click through to the full sized image): http://www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/2010/04/13/seo-in-pictures-our-seo-infographic/ The image covers everything from basic keyword research concepts, through site architecture, page optimization, link … Read More
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Mike Chambers on iPhone’s Flash Application Restrictions
A well written post by Adobe’s Mike Chambers in response to Apple’s latest policy restricting its applications. He seems to be angling it as a Flash vs. iPhone issue while somepoint out that it is actually a Flash vs. HTML5/CSS3 … Read More
Development
How to Quickly Create a Mobile Site Using ClickTurn
There’s an interesting company out there building upon its widget technology to allow publishers to create ad supported mobile versions of their Web sites. From their own site: ClickTurn enables people to create and sell high-impact ad units that marry … Read More
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Gawker Uses Google Ads to Run Small Scale Ad Campaign
A video explaining how this magazine put an ad up on early morning television (off-peak-hours) on certain cable news channels using Google TV/Video ads. It’s a pretty cool video to watch: http://gawker.com/5498938/buying-an-ad-on-fox-news-is-easier-than-you-think Buying an Ad on Fox News is Easier … Read More
How To
How to Approve New Members with Ning
I’ve got a site on the Ning Network and started getting killed by spammers one day. I wanted to make sure that I was able to approve any new members. What the spammers were doing was just signing up with … Read More
News
Platform Event Services : Web Site Launch
We’ve recently launched a 1 pager for Platform Event Services, a full service event production house specialising in event bars and concessions management for large-scale corporate events and festivals. The 1 pager was the simple quick implementation for this new … Read More
Magento
Add Custom Note or Attribute to Magento Grid View
I recently needed to allow for a custom note to be shown in Magento’s Grid and List views. My client asked that they be able to add to any product a customized note (text snippet) to announce such things as … Read More
Magento
Payment Transaction Failed after Magento Upgrade
I recently upgraded an installation of Magento from version 1.1.6 to 1.3.2.1 which lead to a couple issues with the payment system. The first issue was that I had to reset Base URL under Secure in the Configuration. The SSL … Read More
Development
150+ Drupal Themes, Modules and Resources
The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox collected for us by Noupe. It’s worth taking a look at: http://www.noupe.com/drupal/the-ultimate-drupal-toolbox.html Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize almost every … Read More
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Romance Pro at Caesars Pocono Resorts
Romance Pro is a Spammer. This MySpace user account was created to build links to the atrocious Caesars Pocono Resorts. This account comments on any number of your blog posts linking to the following url: http://www.myspace.com/romancepro This person should be … Read More
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A Collection of Drupal Tutorials
A nice list of Drupal Tutorials from MogDesign. Check it out here: http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/