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.
XML Sitemap PHP script
Recently, while working on the site for my father in law (in Dutch), I wanted to create an XML sitemap for the many publications on his site, that are downloadable PDF’s. I regularly add PDF’s to his site too, and since I’m a tad bit lazy I don’t want to keep updating the XML sitemap. So [...]
Web Intents from Twitter
At the end of March Twitter released a cool new feature called “Web Intents”. I didn’t really see the value of it till recently, but I’ve now started using it way more. When you have a Tweet button on your site, you’re already using the Web Intents API, but you can do way more cool [...]
Email Reliability: use an SPF record
A while back I outlined my system for preventing comment spam. One of the core fundamentals in there is that I send people an email to verify their email address before their comment is published. For this to work well, I need to trust on my email to be received. As it turns out, email [...]
Killer Performance Tips from the Expert
My business & podcast partner Frederick Townes, who also happens to be the CTO @ Mashable.com, has finally finished a long awaited (by me at least) post covering lots of the performance tips he’s applied at Mashable (I hope you’ve seen their awesome redesign) and in other projects to make the sites faster despite having [...]
“Design by” footer links…
When you’ve had someone build a website for you, it turns out to be common practice for that “someone”, usually a web developer or a web designer, to add a “design by” or “website developed by” footer link to your site. Let me make my point clearly: if they haven’t given you a discount to [...]
Link dump: interesting reads from around the web
So last week I’ve started sharing a lot more of what I read on a day to day basis on Twitter, and I decided I had to share these links here on yoast.com as well. Below is a quite extensive list of links that I found interesting, ordered by topic. I’ll try to do these [...]
Practical Guide to creating a 404 Error Page for WordPress
I make mistakes. You make mistakes. We all do. And some of these mistakes end up providing our readers with a 404 page. Chances are that page says “Error 404: file not found”. How does that help your visitor? Instead of just identifying the problem, your 404 error page needs to offer a solution. In [...]
The Full mailto Link Syntax
For a small project I had to create a smart mailto link to make my life a bit easier. I wanted the mailto link to hold not only a to and the subject (I’d figured that much out) but a multi lined body too. Turns out that is pretty darn easy to do. So, for [...]
Added a print CSS style sheet
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 [...]
Get the number of popular digg posts for a URL
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: Now if you echo $result['result'], you’ll get the number of posts for $url that made [...]
