I still see a lot of guides popping up online on how to effectively use Twitter for business or personal gain. I find most of them comical because they are written by people who have no idea on how personal relations work. For example, one method I saw explaining how to succeed with Twitter stated [...]
Let me get this out in the open right quick: Sometimes I love to complain. When I’m feeling whiny and insignificant in what I do, nothing beats pointing out what I consider faults in other people’s empires. Boosting the self-esteem through tearing down others, know what I mean?
OK, maybe that last part was taking it too far. I don’t really want to tear down others for what they’re doing unless I feel what they’re doing is illegal or unethical. All the same, there are some things I notice on other sites (mine too) that just annoy me.[...]
I’ve been testing out the WordPress Firewall 2 plugin for a little while now, and so far I think it’s been a good addition to my site.
This plugin provides a layer of security to your site by investigating web requests to your blog and blocking the most obvious attacks. The types of attacks it blocks are as follows:
- Directory Traversal
- SQL Injection
- WordPress specific SQL Injection
- Executable File Upload
- Field Truncation
- Remote File Execution
You can read more on these types of attacks on the plugin author’s page.[...]
I often get asked how to do some of the basic setup steps in the Thesis theme. Some of these questions pop up more frequently than others, so I decided to take 3 of the most frequent questions I receive and answer them with short video tutorials.
The questions I receive the most in this area are:[...]
How do you like the URL to your Google+ profile? It’s pretty ugly and hard to remember, isn’t it? Well, you can fix that in a minute to something more personalized and memorable.
To do this you’ll need to have your own website and access to the site files. I’ll use my Google+ profile as an example for this.
First off, look at this ugly URL for my profile page:[...]
If you were to make a list of reasons why you should be blogging, what would that list consist of? Some great reasons such as cheap marketing and customer interaction should obviously be mentioned, but what do you think the #1 reason would be? Put simply, the main reason why you should be blogging is [...]
Not too long ago I received an email from someone I built a website for in the past. She has a business website with a blog built into it. She updates her blog frequently, and several months after I turned the keys over to her I get this in my inbox from her: I’ve been [...]
Yesterday I posted a brief rundown on how to implement captions in HTML5 video. This is a great way to increase the accessibility of online video, but I never mentioned the SEO benefits from this. A great example of this in action would be a common blog post which consists of only a video and [...]
You can greatly increase the accessibility of your HTML5 videos if you add text captions to them. Doing so would enable visitors with hearing disabilities to enjoy your video content. There are several ways of adding captions to videos, but I will detail one of the simplest. A few things to keep in mind are: [...]
Category pages are one of the most often neglected areas of any WordPress site. This is a shame, because if category pages are used in meaningful way, they can become a strong force in search engine rankings. The key to higher ranking category pages (according to Chris Pearson) is to add a unique headline and [...]