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Entries Tagged as 'Web Design'

Does Google Index the Content in iFrames?

January 11th, 2009 by Bill Hutchison · 2 Comments

Over at an article about Ads on GoDaddy Free Hosting we were asked:
… do you think ifreames effect the indexing of other pages on the site?
While a bot is crawling the page will it see the iframe first and crawl to it rather then crawl the rest of the page? More over, won’t this be [...]

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Tags: Web Design



MM_XSLTransform Error

October 1st, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

MM_XSLTransform error. [RSS URL] is not a valid XML document.  Non-static method DOMDocument::loadXML() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in file
I recently came across this error and took me a lot of searching to find out the right fix for it. Here is where you can find the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · Web Design · quick & easy tips

Smultron vs Coda

September 1st, 2008 by nickv · 8 Comments

Web Workflow
All web developers seem to have a slightly different workflow. Last week I set out on a journey to increase my web development productivity. I’m currently using OS X Leopard 10.5.4 on a iMac 2.1GHz G5.
Coda
‘Coda‘, made by panic, is a ftp+text editor all in one. At first glance it appeared to be everything [...]

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Tags: Applications · Mac · Programming · Web Design



Hide Google Ads on Ning Social Networking

May 12th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 17 Comments

You can hide the Google Ads on your personal page in Ning. Ning is a Social Networking platform where you can create your own Social Networking site. Well you could say it’s mean to hide the ads that will generate income for the creators and I sympathize with that but let me tell why [...]

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Tags: Applications · Citizen Journalism · Social Networking · Web Design · quick & easy tips

Hide Ads on Godaddy free hosting

March 29th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 35 Comments

Some people might question my integrity on this post but let me clarify. I was offered a free hosting ticket (free when I buy a domain name) by Godaddy with no mention of ads being added to my site, I only saw the ads after I installed a wordpress blog in my new free hosting. [...]

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Tags: Web Design · quick & easy tips

Wordpress get_excerpt - show more words

January 3rd, 2008 by Alex Costa · 2 Comments

the get_excerpt function on Wordpress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc.  I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the file \wp-includes\formatting.php. In this file you can change the value [...]

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Tags: Programming · Web Design · quick & easy tips