February 17, 2012
AJAX is a remarkable web technology that moved us beyond the simple “click link, go to another page” structure of The Internet 1.0. It enables websites to dynamically fetch and display content without the user moving away from the current page. Making use of AJAX is quite easy to do from within the WordPress environment, and today we show you how.
February 15, 2012
A quick scan of the Best of WordPress Plugins page will reveal some of the many unique and niche ways you can make your blog work harder. What if you already have a database of say, customer information, but you want to be able to query that data and display it within a WordPress template? Today I’ll be showing you just how to do that, safely within the WordPress engine.
February 12, 2012
Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.
February 9, 2012
If you’re trying to redesign your house, redo your wardrobe, or create some form of art, you’ll more than likely be involved with choosing colors. However, there already lies the problem. With so many colors to choose from, which ones do you select? What if you want to have a certain color no matter what, but don’t know which other colors would fit? For this, Agave for Linux comes to the rescue.
February 8, 2012
Recipress is a free, professional quality plugin for adding beautifully styled recipes to your blog posts. Since I’ve been told my Jalapeño bread is to die for, I thought maybe it would be worth adding the recipe to my Self Sufficiency blog – and this was the perfect solution to do that. Let’s take a look at this fantastic plugin, and a quick walkthrough on how to add and display your recipes.
February 2, 2012
The difficulty with connecting with so many people across the world is time zones. You may want to be available to interact with your readership or to do business with potential clients, but at some point, you have to sleep. Enter the chat bot. A chat bot can serve as your front desk “digital secretary” when you aren’t available to accept IM requests.
January 31, 2012
Every day, more and more people are building their own websites and leading their own communities. Soon, owning a website will be akin to owning a car or a house. If you’re looking to start a website of your very own but don’t have much technological knowledge or experience, your best bet would be to get familiar with content management systems, or CMS’s.
January 26, 2012
Search engine optimization. It’s a controversial topic these days. Lots of professionals have their own opinions about what constitutes a good SEO strategy. Some people insist that a solid keyword strategy is the only thing that matters, while other SEO pundits lambast the “keyword” contingent. I’ve been involved in this field long enough now that there are three solid truths in the SEO field, at least as of today.
December 7, 2011
Google Analytics is the most popular website analytics platform for website owners today. There are certainly others to choose from, such as the three open source tools Danny wrote about, the free analytics tools Rich wrote about, or the eight live analytics tools that Dave covered. Regardless, no other analytics tool has seen the adoption rate that Google Analytics has.
December 3, 2011
Every month more people start using the Internet on their phone. This means an ever-increasing amount of web traffic is through mobile browsers. How does your website look on mobile devices? Google’s new service, How To Go Mo, gives you a chance to find out, and teaches you a lot about mobile websites in the meantime.
