Make Copyright the Current Year on PHP Website
We’ve got a quick tip today. If you are using WordPress or another PHP based platform, you can place the following code in your footer, next to a copyright ( © ) symbol and it will always display the current year. Note: The code in the snippets below needs to be in <? ?> php…
Read MoreRename WordPress Admin Menu Items in Custom Template or Theme
If you have purchased a theme from TemplateMonster or another WordPress theme site, it is likely that some of the custom post types used to create things like portfolio, client, or testimonial pages, as well as the URLs that those pages write to, may not be named optimally. Most recently for us, we had a…
Read MoreFind Your Facebook Personal or Page RSS Feed
Every Facebook personal or business page’s status feed has its own RSS feed that you can tap into for various purposes. You may want to see your friend’s feeds in your feed reader (rather than actually logging in to Facebook and dealing with the ever increasing clutter), or you may want to pull your own…
Read MoreShould You Update Online Business Profiles?
Online business profile services (directories) such as Google Places, Bing Local and Yahoo Local, among many more, are a great, free services that can bring you new customers, more traffic, and more interactivity with your clients. A properly optimized and complete profile gives your enterprise a better chance of being found in map and directory…
Read MoreCreate Sitemaps and use a Sitemap Index
Sitemaps are often overlooked when creating a website, largely because most are unaware of the benefits and process. Having a properly formatted sitemap index and sitemap files that are also submitted to Google WebmasterTools will result in increased indexed pages, which means Google (and other search engines) have greater visibility of your website that they…
Read MoreMake Joomla Article Titles H1 and H2 Tags for SEO
The article titles on your Joomla website are probably not optimized to their full potential. More specifically, they aren’t H1 tags on the article pages and H2 tags on the category, section, and home pages. They also don’t have title attributes in the href links on the category, section and home pages. These header tags…
Read MoreCSS3 Text Shadows
Text Shadow… pretty! OK, that was a little extreme. But seriously, text shadow can be sexy, and it’s really easy. So stop using images for text in your banners and call-to-actions! The CSS3 text-shadow property shouldn’t be overused, but it allows web designers and developers an excellent alternative to using text, with shadows, as images…
Read MoreGoogle Webmaster Tools Site Performance
Lets take a few minutes and discuss what the Site Performance section of Google Webmaster Tools is all about and whether or not we should be putting any stock into its data.
Read MoreAdding Your Website to Google Webmaster Tools
If you’ve landed on this article, chances are you heard about Google Webmaster Tools and are either looking for more information or wanting to utilize (“install”) it for your site. No problem – it’s really pretty easy, and you’ll be up and running in no time if you follow these simple steps.
Read MoreUsing the Photoshop Pen Tool to create a Selection & Remove a Background
In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate a great way to create a selection around an object to remove backgrounds, other objects, etc using the Photoshop Pen Tool. I remember when I was new to Photoshop, selections and cropping, and then I remember how cool it was when I learned the Pen Tool and Quick Mask. I’m…
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