Archive for May, 2009
Using a Static Homepage for Your WordPress Blog
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/.
How To: Add User to Yahoo Search Marketing Account
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.
How to Add User to Microsoft adCenter
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.
Add User to Google Analytics Account
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.
Geo-Target Google AdWords Campaigns with Custom-Drawn Shapes
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.
Acrobat Forms Using Adobe LiveCycle Designer
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.
Web Development Project Process Workflow
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.
Changing Domain Name Servers
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.
Overflow: Auto problem / bug in IE
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.
Highlight text box contents on click
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.
