Category Archives: Featured

StumbleUpon: Beyond The “Stumble” Button

There’s more to using StumbleUpon than just clicking the Stumble button and landing on random web pages. How do you think the pages ended up in their index in the first place? Someone had to submit them first.

Don’t just Stumble. Submit pages, review them, tag them. Do more than just channel-surf, contribute to the community.

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Choosing a Webhost

Obviously you won’t get very far as a blogger if you don’t have a webhost. Without a host, you don’t have a website. If you’re reading this, I assume you’re looking for a good place to host your web site, without having to pay…

GoCodes Redirection Plugin 1.0

Introducing my latest WordPress plugin: GoCodes, the redirection plugin for WordPress. Have you ever had to give someone a shortened version of a URL? Maybe you’re a podcaster, and you need to say “visit mydomain.com/2008/01/03/my-post-with-a-long-url/ for more info.” Wouldn’t it be useful if you…

How to Feature Your Best Posts in Your Sidebar

Looking for a way to feature some of your better posts? Here’s a method I’ve been using for a few months (visible on the index and the screencap to the right). The five most recent posts that I’ve marked as “Featured” will appear in…

21 High-Impact Designs

I’ve been looking-through design galleries again… Today’s design roundup, 21 High-Impact Designs, will cover highly visual designs that really grab your attention as soon as they load. As usual, they’re the kind of really cool designs that you can just sit and look at…

8 Tips For a Blazing-Fast Blog

No one actually likes waiting. Some of us are just better at it than others. The internet seems to be a parallel reality where time passes differently, slow at times, fast at others. Web pages seem to take eons to load, no matter how…

Best of 2007

It’s 2008! Webmaster-Source has been a blog for a year (okay, half a year…), so let’s recap some of the better posts, and review our progress. I say “our progress”, because there wouldn’t be any without all of you who read this blog. A…

Permalink Optimization

If you’re reading this, you probably know what a permalink is. This article is about optimizing your permalinks for both search engines and your readers. That said, do not change your permalink structure if you can help it. If you’re starting a new blog,…

ScratchBack – Give a $1 Tip and Get a Link

I’m trying out a new service I found earlier today. It’s called ScratchBack, and it looks promising. You’ve probably seen sites that solicit tips through PayPal. Sure, it benefits the site and it’s owners, but what about all the people who donate? Wouldn’t it…

Has Your Site Been “Hacked”? Recovering From Cyber Vandalism

Generally I prefer to avoid using the term “hack” in the way most people use it. However, I will, for the duration of this post, use the term in the way the average non-geek would use it. In short, I will use the term…