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.
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 create
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.
Turns out that is pretty darn easy to do. So, for my own
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
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) {
$result['source'] = "http://digg.com/rss_search?search=".$url."&area=promoted&type=url§ion=all";
$output = file_get_contents($result['source']);
preg_match_all("/.*().*/",$output,$matches);
$result['result'] = count($matches[1]);
return $result;
}
[/code]
Now if you echo $result['result'], you'll
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 (in which you
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
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...)
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 wouldn't find anything
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");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/newpage/");
exit;
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 you