Archive for Web Development
· June 30, 2009 at 5:30 am · Web Development
Where Google used to be alone in giving you tools to see how they are indexing your web site, each of the three big search engines now have their own set of webmaster tools.
Bing Webmaster Center
The newest kid on the block, Bing gives you access to keyword research tools, a robot.txt validator, and [...]
· May 27, 2009 at 5:23 am · Web Development
Looking for an easy way to make your web site more mobile-friendly? If you are using WordPress, then I would highly consider checking out the WPtouch plugin.
It will automatically transform your WordPress powered blog into an iPhone application-like experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod or Android phone. All your standard WordPress features [...]
· May 20, 2009 at 5:30 am · Web Development
The Easy Musicplayer For Flash, or otherwise known as EMFF, is in my opinion easily the best free audio player, built in flash. I have been using it to provide a player on up to six of my latest shows on webhostingshow.com.
What makes it so cool? Well, for one, it does not take a college [...]
· May 4, 2009 at 4:55 am · Web Development
Those people outside of the world of web design might sit and wonder, “Why might somebody need an entire web site dedicated to creating made up words?”. However, those people inside of the web design world know that dummy text generation makes it handy to test a web site without having to fill it [...]
· April 30, 2009 at 5:17 am · Web Development
Looking to setup a new wiki, but don’t know which script you should pick up to do the dirty work? Many might say that MediaWiki is the best and the most popular, since it is what is used to run Wikipedia. However, there are some great alternative wiki scripts you might have (or might not [...]
· April 21, 2009 at 5:03 am · Forum Scripts, Web Development
A fast and lightweight PHP-powered set of forums, PunBB is a script you may not have heard much about but I can promise it is well worth looking into. The goal of this script is to be faster, smaller and less graphically overpowering in comparison with other forum scripts out there. That alone makes it [...]
· April 20, 2009 at 6:03 am · Forum Scripts, Web Development
SMF, or otherwise known as Simple Machines Forum, is a free professional software package that will let you get yourself an online community setup in minutes. I had not heard much about this software till I started working for Lunarpages, since it is what they use to run their forums. Ever since though, I [...]
· April 12, 2009 at 4:00 am · Web Development
What is black and blue and great all over? This WordPress theme I found over at Clickfire. It has been a while since I went looking for WordPress themes, however this one stuck out to me because it is both unique and simple at the same time.
Those are two traits I love to look [...]
· April 3, 2009 at 4:00 am · Online Tools, Web Development
I have seen this Google Friend Connect service coming up more and more via the web sites I visit, so I thought I would look a little more into the service. Google wants to help you grow traffic by adding social features to your web site. Now how do you do it?
How Does Google [...]
· March 30, 2009 at 4:00 am · Online Tools, Web Development
Now we all want to get to the top of the search engines, as it has been drilled into our brains, we must to have a successful web site. However, I have found one service that just seems to make it a little too easy. Automatic Backlinks promises to be an easy and automatic [...]