Posts in the Webdesign & development category
Not only am I an SEO, I’m fairly good at webdesign as well. With webdesign I mean the translation of a nice idea by someone else into completely valid templates, others are often better in creating nice looks for a site. I’ve started my own webdesign company on the side for this: AlthA Webdesign.
Next to webdesign, I do a lot of web development using PHP, mainly using the different API’s of the search engines and social media networks out there to create mash ups.
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October 28th
21Using the Technorati API on your blog
Excerpt: In my effort to remove all badges from my front page and decrease the load time, I have now moved to using the Technorati API to display Technorati info. It looks like this: The code is almost as easy as the code to display your FeedBurner subscribers or your last tweet. You'll need to creat…
Categories: Webdesign & development, WordPress
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October 27th
21The full guide to mailto links!
Excerpt: For a small project I had to create a smart mailto: link to make my life a bit easier. I wanted it to hold not only a to and the subject (I'd figured that much out) but a multi lined body too. digg_url = 'http://yoast.com/guide-mailto-links/';Turns out that is pretty darn easy to do. So, for my …
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March 2nd
16Added a print CSS style sheet
Excerpt: Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get emails from readers asking for a better print style sheet. Until just a few minutes ago, printing would…
Categories: Webdesign & development, WordPress
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November 25th
2Get the number of popular digg posts for a URL
Excerpt: Sometimes, for instance when you're building a domain-info tool, you want to know the number of posts on that site that have made it to the Digg frontpage. After playing a bit, I came up with this pretty easy code: [code language="php"] function FrontpageDiggs($url) { $result['source'] = "http:…
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October 30th
1OS X 10.5 Leopard: Spaces combined with Parallels
Excerpt: OS X 10.5 has this awesome great new feature called Spaces, they're multiple desktops on steroids. You can assign programs to open in a specific Space, swiftly switch between them and loads more cool stuff. Now, if you're a developer and need to test your stuff in Windows, you can assign Parallels (…
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October 24th
2Big hunkin' list of Mac Tools for SEO's and Webdevelopers
Excerpt: I've been wanting to do this list for quite a while, but I finally put myself to doing it: a big list of all the web development and SEO tools I use on my Mac. It's a page, I'll keep updating it when I find new apps that are worth mentioning there. If you have any applications I've missed or should …
Categories: SEO, Webdesign & development
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April 24th
4Webdesign survey
Excerpt: It's up again, the annual webdesign survey by A List Apart, I took it, and so should you! (If you don't like surveys do it for the prizes...)…
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April 6th
1Implementing a sitewide search function
Excerpt: Those of you coming to this site more often might have noticed a small change in the search box. It's now implemented sitewide, and I've built a sitewide search functions using the Yahoo! API. It was quite nescessary because I found that people were searching for "sortable.zip" on the blog, and they…
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April 2nd
0PHP 301 redirects for Apache and IIS
Excerpt: This one is just here for my own reference, because the default 302 status code just isn't good enough! PHP 301 for Apache: header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: http://www.example.com/newpage/"); exit; PHP 301 for IIS: header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently"); head…
Categories: Serverside, Webdesign & development
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April 1st
0The correct way of using conditional comments
Excerpt: Some people, like Jens Meiert, have argued that using conditional comments to fix layout bugs for IE is wrong. For those of you who don't know what they are, check out my article on conditional comments. I on the other hand, think that it's the only proper way of working around IE CSS bugs. If yo…
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March 30th
15PHPSESSID in your URL? Learn to 301 redirect them with PHP
Excerpt: I'm doing some work on a site which has like 4,500 pages indexed with a PHPSESSID in the URL, causing some major duplicate content problems. I got the server admin to disable the PHPSESSID's by adding the following to the vhost config: php_value session.use_trans_sid 0 php_value session.use_only…
Categories: SEO, Webdesign & development
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February 17th
0FeedRoll
Excerpt: Today I finished up my work on FeedRoll, a site which offers a widget to show RSS feeds on your site. I've fixed several things on it, yet the most fun came today. There was a colorpicker on it before that only worked on Internet Explorer 5 and up, and nothing else... Now, those of you who know me, …
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January 26th
15Sortable table script updated to v1.5.5
Excerpt: I got an email from Mozilla's director of product management Sherman Dickman today, that my sortable table script wasn't sorting numbers above 1 million which have comma's in them correctly (they do have a lot of Firefox downloads ;) ). The problem was caused by the fact that replace only replac…
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January 23rd
4As usual, Technorati walks ahead of the pack
Excerpt: They "invented" blogsearch, and did a LOT for the webdevelopment and blogging community. Now Technorati, it turns out, is working on the microformats search I asked for only two articles ago (it was there before that, I just didn't know about it)... Check it out in Technorati's Kitchen.…
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January 22nd
13Googling for microformats
Excerpt: Imagine, you can type in a query like "joost de valk class:vcard" and Google comes up with my contact page, because that has a vcard class in it's markup, the main class of the hCard microformat. This was suggested today on the uf-discuss mailing list, a mailing list I've been lurking on for quite a…
Categories: SEO, Webdesign & development
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January 2nd
10Sortable table v1.5
Excerpt: I've just updated my sortable table script to version 1.5, in which it is fixed to work in Safari for Mac OS X 10.4 as well, (I didn't even know that it wasn't working in there since it always worked in the nightly). I'm now taking new feature requests for this script, so hit me with them, in the co…
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January 1st
2FeedBurner history comparison
Excerpt: When I was working on my FeedBurner history graph tool, I thought it would be cool to be able to display the growth of a blog relative to some other blog as well, so i came up with the idea of "just" plotting a few other lines next to each other, showing how they performed relatively. Hence my Feed…
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December 28th
5Cool FeedBurner schwag
Excerpt: I got some nice stuff in the mail today, a gift from FeedBurner's Jessica Graeser, because they liked my FeedBurner graph so much. Check it out: This makes me want to code more cool FeedBurner tools, which is probably exactly what they intended :). I've been working on a feed compare tool, which …
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December 20th
1Playing with the del.icio.us Web Badge JSON API using PHP
Excerpt: Niall Kennedy wrote on his blog that The Yahoo Developer Network provided a short preview of the soon to be released del.icio.us webbadge. From this preview you could see an endpoint and a parameter, so Niall tried and it worked for everyone. That inspired me to make this fast PHP implementation of …
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December 18th
1FeedBurner down?
Excerpt: As I logged in to my Mint stats this morning, I saw that FeedBurner had registered 0 feedreaders for both yoast.com and www.css3.info. Now I know for a fact that that isn't true, and indeed, one the support forums it seems that more people have this problem. Update: it seems this problem was solv…
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December 11th
1Greasemonkey auto-update notification
Excerpt: One of the biggest advantages of an extension over a GreaseMonkey script is the possibility of automatic update notification for the user. For my Greasemonkey statistics detector I've been looking in to a way to provide automatic update notification, without having to "phone home" on each use of the…
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December 6th
7Technorati Greasemonkey script removed
Excerpt: In response to my previous post about unlimited API queries, I was urged by David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, to contact the Technorati developers and work out a way to get my script working through the API. I then contacted the developer team and got a great fast response from Ian Kallen, and we'v…
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December 5th
1Web 2.0 and API’s: the case for Unlimited queries
Excerpt: Every self respecting search engine has one, loads of other sites have one, and lots of people are using them to make great new stuff: Application Programming Interfaces or API’s. There's a big 'but' on some of them though... Wikipedia describes an API as: 'An application programming interface …
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December 4th
2FeedBurner API fun
Excerpt: I've had some fun with the FeedBurner API in the past days, creating a graphic simulation from a blog's feed-readers history over the past year. It's rather elegant, I think, as it creates graphics which you can easily insert into your pages or posts, and will automatically update each time they're …
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November 15th
13Favicons and your online brand
Excerpt: One of the nicer things to have changed with the release of IE7, which is now in automatic updates, is the way it handles favicons. In the IE6 past it would show them in the location bar only when you had the site bookmarked. Now it always shows them, and in the tab bar as well. With that, the favic…
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November 10th
4More sortable table fun!
Excerpt: I've been improving the sortable table javascript a lot in the past days, loads of bugs have been fixed, and I've set up a small email newsletter to those interested, if you'd like to be included in that, here are signup instructions. Let me know what you think about this script and how I could impr…
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November 5th
0Update to sortable table script
Excerpt: Ok, i've fixed one hell of a bug in the table sorting script which must have been in there for at least 2 months, screwing up sorting incredibly, sorry for that. I added in a new feature as well, you can now have dates formatted as 01-Jan-1970, and it will sort these right as well. Let me know if y…
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November 2nd
21W3C Validator API
Excerpt: The W3C announced the release of an API for the HTML validator or rather, that's what they call it. In fact, it's nothing more than an output filter on their normal validator output, which gives SOAP 1.2 conforming output. It requires a HTTP request though, which makes it a rather funny "API" to dea…
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Tags: PHP, Web design -
October 31st
4PHP5 and NUSOAP
Excerpt: So last weekend I installed PHP5 on my server, to finally be able to do some new stuff, and this, it seemed, created some trouble with my SEO scripts that used NUSOAP. What is the problem? Well it's easy: PHP5 has a soapclient built in, and this causes trouble :). The solution is easy as well, r…
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October 11th
3Does Internet Explorer 7 like your website?
Excerpt: The IE blog recently announced that Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users in a few weeks time, delivering it to user via automatic update a few weeks later. This gives you a few weeks to make sure your sites are rendered correctly in the browser that a major part of your users will be usin…
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September 11th
2New design!
Excerpt: As you can see, or if you're reading this from a feed, you should see, this site has had a redesign. The new layout has a fully intended web2.0 feel to it, with improved readability as one of the main enhancements. I've added some other stuff as well, for instance: the blog now supports gravatars…
Categories: Webdesign & development, WordPress
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August 18th
0Webmaster tools
Excerpt: Once every so often, you find a new site with some nice website tools and tutorials. If you're doing anything related to the web, you need tools, and you probably need web based ones as well, and this site offers some cool ones. A lot of webmasters earn their money using ads, so Google AdSense O…
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August 7th
0SEO, Webdesign, e-commerce: you should do it all
Excerpt: Or none of it... The longer i work in this business, the more i feel you can either do it all, or do nothing at all, because you need to have a pretty good knowledge of say, webdesign, to do SEO, or of SEO to do e-commerce or... etc. etc .etc. Some companies do it all, and call it "innovative online…
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August 7th
0Funny way of connecting webdesigners and clients
Excerpt: Vendorseek has a funny way of connecting web designers and clients for web design services... Maybe i should sign up for the other end of it too :). Seriously, i've seen occasions were people pay way to much for web design services, this is a nice solution for it.…
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August 7th
1Why pay for web design?
Excerpt: The intention of most people who decide to create a new website is to create a steady source of income for themselves. So some people may wonder why they should spend some of their budget on paying someone else to design and create their websites. The truth is that there are many reasons why having …
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July 17th
0Small update to table sorting script
Excerpt: My table sorting javascript has been updated slightly. It now supports sorting of €x.xxx amounts, where it didn't support the € sign first, and it now supports the xx.xx.xxxx date format.…
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June 12th
1CSS3.info
Excerpt: I moved over my CSS3 section to it's own domain, since it seemd as though my site was slowly becoming a wrapper around those pages. It's now on www.css3.info, which in my humble opinion was the best URL i could have gotten for it. Feel free to digg, bookmark or link it, and give any opinion you migh…
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June 11th
1Media Queries work in WebKit!
Excerpt: There's a new feature in the WebKit nightlies: media queries. Media queries allow you to "query" the user agent for some of it's specifics right from within the CSS, and match your CSS to that. I have a media queries page in my CSS3 section, which shows some examples of it's use. One of the co…
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June 2nd
0Resize in WebKit!
Excerpt: So in the latest WebKit nightlies we have a new CSS3 feature: resize. It allows resizing of any box, very useful for textarea's and other cool stuff. Ofcourse i immediatly added a page on it in my CSS3 Preview section. [tags]css, css3, webkit[/tags]…
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May 22nd
3CSS3 section: multi-column layout
Excerpt: Jason Harrop mailed me today, congratulating me on the digg, and telling me about the multi column extension he created for Firefox. Multi-column layout was already planned as an extra addition to my CSS3 section, but this pushed it up the list a bit. So here it is: multi-column layout in CSS3. T…
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May 21st
1Digg effect
Excerpt: My CSS3 Preview section got digged this morning, which caused quite a few visitors and a VERY slow website.... I tweaked Apache a "bit" and it now works perfectly again. [tags]digg, css3[/tags]…
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May 16th
3More news in the CSS3 section
Excerpt: I added two very cool new pages to the CSS3 section, and i've changed my policy a bit. My policy was to add pages as stuff became supportted in either Firefox or WebKit. I have added Opera to that list, since they are doing other stuff, which is very cool as well. The two new pages are about box-siz…
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May 12th
1Why i'm very happy with OmniWeb 5.5
Excerpt: I'm an Apple addict, and a Safari addict as well. I love it, and I love it's core, WebKit, and spend a lot of time on it. Yet i'm very, very happy with the OmniWeb 5.5 sneaky peak. I wrote a piece a while ago, about a WebKit community release. Effectively, this OmniWeb sneaky peak release is such…
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May 8th
1CSS3 text-shadow
Excerpt: After getting some link love from Amber Rhea over at CSSInsider, I updated my CSS3 section. The new page is about text-shadow, and probably doesn't really belong there as has been introduced in CSS2. However, only WebKit implemented it, so i thought "what the heck". [tags]CSS, CSS3, text-shadow[/…
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May 8th
1CSS3: multiple backgrounds and background-size
Excerpt: I've added two pages in my css3 preview section: multiple backgrounds and background-size. Both are nice, but multiple backgrounds really rock, since they allow for far easier website building. I really hope these get into some other browsers fast, as these two are only implemented in Safari/Webkit …
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April 29th
1CSS3 Preview - Background-origin and background-clip
Excerpt: I updated my CSS 3 Preview section, adding background-origin and background-clip examples. I think i found a few WebKit and Firefox bugs in the process, i'll have to do some more research on that tomorrow. [tags]CSS, CSS3, background-origin, background-clip[/tags]…
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April 27th
0Omniweb 5.5 in public beta!
Excerpt: According to Hicksdesign, Omniweb 5.5 has gone in public beta. You need to register in the Omniweb public forums, and then view this thread for download info. I will try it tonight, but it apparently has quite a new WebKit, since it includes the Web Inspector, as well as stylable buttons. Very nicel…
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April 23rd
0High DPI Web Sites
Excerpt: Dave Hyatt raises a VERY interesting question on the Surfin' Safari blog. He talks about High DPI Web Sites and how this could be the future of browsing the web. I'll chew on this one over the weekend. [tags]WebKit, Safari, High DPI, browsers[/tags]…
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April 22nd
1Back by demand: CSS3 rounded border preview
Excerpt: I saw in my logs that people were still coming to the rounded border preview I made last year, and which I had removed from my site. So I updated it and put it back. I created a CSS3 preview section for it, in which I will add more pages soon.…
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April 20th
0Opera 9 Beta
Excerpt: Opera has announced Opera 9 Beta today, with new features including BitTorrent and Widgets. Though i haven't found a use for the Widgets yet, the BitTorrent feature could be very nice. I will update more during the day, as I will use Opera all day today to do my dayjob ;).…
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April 16th
0First WebKit commit!
Excerpt: Tonight, after having been quite busy for the last few days, I had some time to work on WebKit on my new Macbook Pro. I wanted to do some work on the website, as it needed a few updates, (and it still needs more). In this process, i had my first two commits!! I've had the commit bit for quite a …
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