I'm attending the WordTracker Linkbuilding webinar today. Currently in session with 536 other attendees - I look forward to reporting back. They have a new link building tool that quickly allows you to find backlinks to other sites. I'll be posting more soon.... read more!
Shad Vick Posted in SEO | Post Comment
If you work on a computer during the day, chances are that you are running a set of commonly used programs all the time. Everytime you need to reboot you have to open all these programs up again. If you only have a set of maybe 3 programs you run that need to be opened up on startup it isn't so bad, but if you have 10 or more this can become a painful thing to have to do over and over everytime you reboot. It's pretty easy to put together a script file containing the commands to run those progr... read more!
Mike Vandenberghe Posted in Productivity, technology | Post Comment
Email marketing is a great way to keep customers interested and even draw in new business. Contrary to what some people may think, it really isn’t that hard to do either. You might wonder how to get started. Well, the great thing about your website is that you can unobtrusively place an email capture somewhere on you main page. Ask users to sign up for your newsletter. You might be surprised how many people give you their email address even though they don’t actually buy anything ... read more!
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It is easy for web designers to just jump into a design without knowing the specific goals of the website. The "message", as i like to call it, is what the website is all about. It encompasses the goals, target audience and main objectives. Knowing this information before you start to design is critical. It will influence the graphics, layouts and calls to action. This is an important step that must not be skipped during the design process. If you don't take the time to discuss this with the cli... read more!
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There comes a time when you too will need to process a large file that you don't want load all at once into memory. Luckily php makes this easy to do. You open a file just as usual, $f = fopen('path_to_file','r'); You can then loop through it a little bit at a time, reading in chunks. while ( ! feof($f) ) { $chunk = fread($f,1024); } If you need to process a text file in lines instead of just chunks by byte size, you can use a different function but in the same way. while ( ! feof($f) ) {... read more!
Mike Vandenberghe Posted in php | Post Comment
All you php developers out there should be greatly familiar with str_replace(). Without it, what would we do? Many though do not realize that the function is case sensitive or they will go to great lengths to work around the case sensitivity of str_replace. Do this no longer! Just use stri_replace(), the arguments are exactly the same as str_replace but this version is case insensitive.... read more!
Mike Vandenberghe Posted in php | Post Comment
Sometimes is its difficult to explain and issue or a very technical concept to a person who is not in the field of web design. It is easy for us to start talking tech without considering the audience. We may say things like "The DNS is not pointed to the correct host server." where, perhaps, we could have said "The website's domain name is not connected to the website files. This is an easy fix." You always have to remember, most of your customers are not web designers. Communicate with them ac... read more!
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Mobile computing is hotter than ever right now. Touch screens have become a staple of many people's lives. Many people are migrating away from the traditional desktop or laptop computers in favor of using these devices as their primary source for web content. As web designers we must keep this growing segment of the population in mind when we design and build websites. I have found myself turning to my iphone more and more to get quick answers, look up the status of an ecommerce order or check u... read more!
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