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I don’t know what Google calls it, but I call it the “Google bump”.  That is when new pages soar straight to the top of the rankings.  The problem is that a week or two later, they sink right back into oblivion.

I found this gem of a code snippet today, courtesy of http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/268961-video-autoplay/ I was building a website out that I wanted to autoplay a YouTube video, but I didn’t want the video to autoplay every single time the viewer hit the home page.  I...

I am working on a client’s site who has a GoDaddy DELUXE Hosting account, and I started having problems that my previous post on “GoDaddy + CodeIgniter Issues” did not resolve (shared hosting account… not deluxe).

Nothing screams “THIS WEBSITE HASN’T BEEN UPDATED IN A WHILE” like an out-of-date copyright notice in your footer. Several years ago, I decided to code a little smarter, and on every website that I’m responsible for, I insert a PHP snippet that displays the current year.  So now...

I just read a new, clever way of foiling form spam bots today. The gist of the method is to add a field to the form and enclose it in a DIV tag that is styled via CSS to be off the page (such as setting the margin -10000 or something like that).  A human would not fill that field...

Google announced the desire for publishers to use a new set of meta tags to indicate whether a post is original or syndicated. Here’s how it works…

Eventually, every small business should update their website. Maybe you have a new logo, or you finally coordinated all your marketing materials on a single font style and color palate. Maybe you just finally wanted to breathe some new life into your website that was last updated...

I came across this problem today. I just purchased a HostGator Baby account.  I got everything installed, and CodeIgniter will pull up a home page, but any other page redirects to the home page.

I had another snag in deploying a CodeIgniter application the other day. GoDaddy doesn’t allow you to have access outside of the web root. This is kind of a problem for CodeIgniter, because you really should install the system files outside of the web root for security reasons.

I had to create an email Open-Rate tracking system for a client the other day, so I thought I’d share it.  This code hides a 1×1 pixel, also called a Web Bug or Clear GIF, in the email, so that if the person views the email, it “phones home” and adds the incident to a MySQL...