Yearly Archives: 2009
Mar 30, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Hosting
Millions of people who blog don’t want to deal with hosting their blog themselves, so they use a blogging service instead. There are many things that factor into the choice of blogging service, but one of them should always be site reliability. After all, if people can’t access your blog, it won’t get read.
Though services like Blogger, WordPress.com, and TypePad don’t give you as much control over your blog as you would have hosting it on your own (paid) hosting account, their uptime is quite impressive.
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Mar 30
PHP Link Directory, one of the advertisers here at Webmaster-Source, would like to announce version 3.4 of their phpLD product. phpLD is a paid product, but it’s still one of the more popular web directory solutions. The link directory script has changed greatly since…
Mar 29
WooThemes is running a contest to design a T-Shirt for them to take to the Future of Web Design 2009 conference. We’ll hopefully be taking some t-shirts to the event to giveaway and that’s where we need your help – in designing them. We…
Mar 27
Mactropolis is a Mac community blog and forum with a nice style to it. The site was designed by Adii and company, and it was from his Twitter stream that I discovered the site a few months ago.
Mar 26
The Parse_URL function can dice a URL into individual segments for later usage. Suppose you’ve just parsed a group of RSS feeds, and you’re looping through the results, displaying the ten most recent. You would like to put the items’ source domains under the…
Mar 25
What are the highest-earning blogs? What web companies make the most revenue annually (or per second)? IncomeDiary.com has put together a couple of posts rounding-up the top thirty of each. The lists are not necessarily all-inclusive, but they give a pretty good idea of…
Mar 24
Twitter has been growing rapidly. As I write this, they have passed the 8 million mark for unique visitors to their website, according to Compete.com. (And how many people use desktop clients, cellphones, etc. for their day-to-day tweeting?) The question that has been brought…
Mar 23
Spoon Graphics has a new post on how to stand out on Twitter: Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices. With Twitter quickly becoming the hottest site to be seen on, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd. There has already been a…
Mar 22
If you’ve ever worked with WordPress’s “template tag” functions, you may have noticed that some of them take arguments in a strange way. Instead of passing arguments like function($1, $2), they are handled much a URL query string, like function('exclude=this&order=asc'). This enables you to…
