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The Moniker.com interface is a bit confusing, so here’s a step-by-step instruction on how to change the CNAME record for a domain at Moniker
A discussion about trailing slashes on URLs for “listing” pages got me thinking about what a URL is and should be. Yeah, this post is a bit obsessive.
My brother was having trouble getting WAMP Server running on his machine. This is the process I took him through to get it running. These tips apply equally to XAMPP or any other install of an Apache server on Windows. If you don’t know, WAMP and XAMPP are installers that let you set up a [...]
We needed to grab a special report in time for tax season. Fortunately, with a bit of SQL it’s easy t grab pretty much anything you want from Ubercart
Read on to see an example —»After a much-mentioned article by Jakob Nielsen, “mega menus” became all the rage, but there are some serious issues to consider before diving in. The can create serious usability issues and negatively impact your site information architecture and, ultimately how you are found, ranked and categorized by the search engines.
Read about Mega Menus, SEO and UsabilityMega menus have been heralded as a usability enhancement, but they can also result in serious usability challenges. It’s not a simple yes or no. It’s quite easy to end up with navigation that is difficult, occasionally impossible, for the user to actually navigate.
Read about Mega Menu usability concernsSearch engines have made a lot of progress in terms of figuring out what your page is about, but large numbers of navigation links muddy the signal you send to the search engines, both about your page and about the rest of your site. There are lots of possible solutions, but the real solution is getting the information architecture right.
Read why Mega Menus create SEO problemsThe wp-pear-debug brings a few handy debugging tools to Worpdress. If you’re not working in an IDE with full-fledged debugging, this is a must have for any Wordpress developer.
Everyone has their favorite Wordpress Plugins. Here are some of my favorites.
So I’ve been using WebEnabled lately. If you don’t know it, Webenabled is a service that lets you build sandbox environments for tons of open source apps (Drupal, WordPress, CivicCRM and many many more) and gives you all kinds of tools – version control, site cloning, and more. One of the killer tools is Deploy, [...]
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