Category Archives: General
Oct 27, 2008 by Matt | Posted in General
Do you know what one of my favorite parts of the internet is?
It’s the community, and their willingness to help people out without anything in return. Sure, the web has it’s fair share of trolls and greedy corporate people, but overall you can just approach someone, say a blogger, ask a question, and get a straight answer.
Having trouble getting a PHP script or CSS effect to work? Visit a coding-oriented web forum and ask for advice. One of the many people there will most likely know what’s wrong and spot that typo on line twelve that you missed despite going over the code dozens of times.
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Oct 20
Browser maker Opera has conducted a recent study to see how much of the web is standards compliant. Using a specialized web crawler, dubbed “MAMA” for “Metadata Analysis and Mining Application,” that searches around 3.5 million pages, the company has determined that a mere…
Oct 17
Google recently added a useful new feature to their Webmaster Central portal, which Google employee Matt Cutts says can help you get some extra links. It allows you to see dead URLs that sites are linking to on your site (a.k.a. pages that don’t…
Oct 15
First there was an unexplained downtime of half a day (!!!) last month, now my host is planning a scheduled downtime to upgrade their core switches in their datacenter. This will take approximately one hour on October 23rd “sometime between 12 am and 6…
Oct 12
We always hear about how Google doesn’t like duplicate content, and will penalize a page that has the same content as another. There are plenty of articles on optimizing sites to avoid having duplicate content internally, and articles ranting about scrapers. What I want…
Aug 20
Running a large-scale blog can be a lot of work. If you gain a large readerbase, and are barely keeping up with writing posts, and managing others’ posts if you’re the editor of a multi-author blog, how are you going to find the time…
Aug 9
101 Awesome Portfolio Sites WordPress 2.7 heavily based on existing plugins – I’m okay with that so long as they don’t introduce 125×125 ad management or URL shortening features. 20 Creative Business Cards You Probably Didn’t See Before – Yes, another business card roundup.…
Aug 6
Around mid-July, I asked you what you used for your browser’s homepage. Unlike most of my polls, I this time allowed the selection of multiple options, seeing as most modern browsers allow you to have multiple tabs open on startup. We ended up with…
Jul 18
You heard me. Do you have the default wallpaper up still, or did you find one online (or make one yourself)? Do you stuff as many icons onto the screen as possible, or do you prefer a less cluttered approach? If you’re a Mac…
Jul 13
On virtually all web browsers (modern browsers, anyway), you can set a particular page (or pages if you have a tab-equipped browser) to automatically open when you launch the browser. What page you choose is obviously up to you, and it’s generally a choice…
