In this tutorial I take you through the fairly simple process of setting a static homepage for your WordPress site and moving the blog page to another location, like /blog/.
Read more →This article explains how to allow other users access to your Yahoo Search Marketing account. This is something I do when managing Yahoo PPC campaigns. Yahoo has three access levels, any of which you can assign to new users on your account.
Read more →This is a follow-up to the previous article about adding a new user to Yahoo search marketing. In this article I’ll cover adding a new user to Microsoft’s equivalent of Yahoo! Search Marketing and Google AdWords, known as adCenter.
Read more →This is a followup to the previous two articles about adding users to MSN adCenter and Yahoo Search Marketing PPC advertising platforms. In this article I’ll walk you through adding a new user to your Google Analytics statistics account.
Read more →Google’s recently added the ability to target Pay Per Click campaigns to specific areas by simply drawing a border on a map around the area you want to target. Any searches inside that area will see your ads. This is one way of implementing “Geographical Targeting” and this article explains how to set it up.
Read more →In combination with Adobe’s LiveCycle Designer, Acrobat provides a really easy to use method of distributing and collecting questionnaires. We’ve recently started using these questionnaires for some client projects for a number of reasons that I’ll go over here.
Read more →Working on a number of different web development projects over the years, a standardized process has sort of naturally evolved that we’ve then adjusted into a formal workflow, which allows us to get projects delivered to the client as quickly as possible while ensuring we don’t miss any steps or overlook any key details.
Read more →If you currently own a website, you probably deal with one or two companies on a regular basis, your hosting company, and your domain name registrar (the company you have your domain name registered with) – for some people, these two companies are the same.
Read more →In this article I explain how to compensate for another one of Internet Explorer’s quirks, the way it handles the overflow property. Specifically with regard to the overflow property being set to auto. The fix is pretty simple.
Read more →JavaScript is great for usability – there are a million different little tricks you can use to make your site more user-friendly, especially when it comes to forms. In this quick tutorial I show you how to setup a form text field contents to be highlighted when clicked on. This allows for quick editing in case you need to replace the contents of the field.
Read more →As any front-end web developer knows, getting IE to play nice with certain layouts can require a bit of hacking and bug fixing. In this article I explain a list item margin bug that causes list elements to be spaced much too far apart in Internet Explorer 6 and how to fix it.
Read more →If you manage your own website on shared hosting, you may have seen two folders with the exact same contents: /www/ and /public_html/. So what’s the difference between the two? Read on to find out.
Read more →Here’s a quick juicy piece of knowledge for you. If your ISP changes for whatever reason (i.e. you move) and suddenly your email stops working, it’s possible your ISP blocks port 25, the standard email SMTP port on most servers. All you have to do to fix it is change your SMTP port to 587, which is another SMTP port activated on many email servers for situations like this. If you’re not sure how to do that, and you run Microsoft Outlook, here’s a quick step-by-step.
Read more →Microsoft is offering a free download of Windows 7 RC. This is a time-limited version that will become unusable in 2010 on March 1st, but until then, you can find out what the newest version of Windows is going to be like. Keep in mind, this is
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