Yesterday I noticed a sticker on the front of my newspaper. It was an advertisement for a local bank that announced some “$3,000,000 savings spectacular”. Not much else was mentioned in this advertisement, but a small QR code was inserted at the bottom. I have an Android phone with the QR Droid app installed, so [...]
WordPress just released the 3.2 version of their software 2 days ago. This latest version includes speed and performance increases, requires a minimum of PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0, and drops support for IE6. Anyone wishing to upgrade their installation of WordPress should first ensure that their server fills the minimum requirements for the 3.2 [...]
How is your real estate blog working out for you? Is it performing the way you want, or is it more like an empty corner in the internet? Many real estate blogs have the same characteristic in common: the focus is on the real estate agent and on their properties, not on the visitor. If [...]
It is becoming more and more common for a website to appear differently on a mobile device as compared to what it looks like on a desktop computer or laptop. Here are how the top 50 blogs according to Technorati compare. There are two images for each website: the left image is as it appears [...]
A worker is not as effective without their tools, and I use a lot of them to get my projects done. Although I have bought some programs that I use (Photoshop comes to mind), most of the software I use on a daily basis is freely available to download with little or no restrictions. Want [...]
Copyright issues are something you need to take seriously whenever you publish other people’s work online. You can publish other people’s work under the principle of “fair use”, but you have to be certain that you’re not crossing the boundaries of fair use and into infringement. Copyrighted works include text, images, video and more. Video [...]
Do you struggle with the thought of SEO for your website? Do you find SEO to be a confusing and mysterious affair and therefore avoid it at all costs? You don’t have to, thanks to Glenn Murray’s “SEO Secrets“. I have had this book for quite some time now, and it is a goldmine of [...]
There are many different WordPress plugins available for backing up your site. I have never really liked any of them and have preferred to do my own backups manually. That is until I came across the WordPress Backup to Dropbox. Let me give you a little background on what I think about WordPress backups. A [...]
How important is it to include your keywords in your domain name? For a long time now I have profited by including them for sites when I could, but it looks like those benefits may be coming to an end. According to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, they may be changing their algorithm [...]