There are numerous ways that a Web developer can make the page a little more SEO friendly. If you are the Webmaster and Web developer, you will be able to add the SEO elements to your page and fill them out at the same time. This will make optimizing your pages a little easier and quicker. Continue Reading »

Whether it is about recommending or tweeting, the idea of having social presence of websites has become a popular practice. Social presence of website doesn´t only make your presence felt, but also gives more value to your website in the eyes of search engines.

Following a company on Twitter or sharing updates on Facebook pages can be made much easier, by making use of sharing buttons on your website. Continue Reading »

When developing a website, you will have a number of choices when it comes to web design. While it might be nice to use a professional designer, few small businesses or individuals have the funds that it would cost to hire a designer. Most of the time, a pro designer is going to cost several thousand dollars minimum. Continue Reading »

They say 2013 is the year of Responsive Web Design, the year when responsiveness will come into its own. Actually, the field of web design and development is already going through a responsiveness induced revolution of sorts.

Let´s face it, we as designers and developers simply cannot keep up with all the new resolutions and devices entering the market at a rapid clip. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to display the number of comments an author has posted in the post´s comment section without the need of a plugin, as shown in the image below:

Everytime someone leaves a comment on any post, the Author´s comment total count will show up next to his/her name.

Here are the features of the code:

WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary of your posts. In this tutorial, I will show you how to automatically control the Manually typed excerpt AND the Automatically generated excerpt at the same time, by using a simple function and without the need of a plugin.

The image below shows the result when using CODE-Y below. Notice that both the Manually typed Excerpt and the Auto-generated excerpt are present. Continue Reading »

Revision control, or Version Control, is the management of changes to files, computer programs, and other projects. Each revision is associated with a timestamp and the person making the change. Revisions can be compared, restored, and with some types of files, merged. Version Control software provides a database that is used to keep track of the revisions made to files by all developers involved in the project. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Gravatar as Favicon in WordPress as shown in the image below. The image shows that I am using my Gravatar image as Favicon.

A favicon (short for Favorite icon) is an image, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Website. The browsers typically display a page´s favicon in the address bar and next to the page´s name in a list of bookmarks and also in the browser tabs. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to refine and filter Search Results in your WordPress Blog´s front-end. Specifically, I will show you how to Exclude Posts, Pages, specific Categories, Custom Post Types and more from your WordPress Search Option.

In general, every WordPress Blog has a Search box that you can use to search based on your keywords. Continue Reading »

Do you want to display your latest tweets on your WordPress Website? If you are using Twitter, you may want to display your latest tweets on your blog.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to display your latest tweets from your Twitter feed without a plugin, as shown in the image below. Of course, you need to have a Twitter account first. Continue Reading »

In a previous tutorial, I showed you How To Customize WordPress Login Screen Without a Plugin. In this tutorial, I will show you a different and better approach to do that.

The problem with my previous tutorial, is that most likely you will lose your changes the next time you upgrade your WordPress version. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you two separate codes on how to Redirect all your WordPress Commenters to a Thank You page, and also how to only Redirect your First Time Commenters to a Thank You Page without the need of a plugin.

This tutorial is for you, if you are asking one of these 2 questions:

1. How can I get ALL my WordPress commenters to redirect to a fancy “Thank You” page. Continue Reading »

Authority Websites are highly respected in Google and other Search Engines, and owning one makes your life easier. New content is quickly indexed and ranks with little work on your end. You get lots of traffic, you can reach out to thousands of visitors with a single post and you own a truly valuable asset. Authority Websites are powerful and long-lasting. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to Protect email Addresses in WordPress, and prevent email spam with the built-in WordPress antispambot() function. You probably did not know that there is a function in WordPress that automatically obfuscate an email address.

Spam bots are regularly scanning the Web to find emails to spam. But what if you want to display your email, or other Authors´ emails on your WordPress blog? Continue Reading »

WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your posts. In this tutorial, I will show you how to generate variable Length Excerpt that completes the sentence. Meaning that the Excerpt is not cut off mid-sentence. Also, I will show you how to preserve All, Some or None of the HTML formatting in the Excerpt, among several other features listed below. Continue Reading »

Securing your WordPress Website is critical in growing your online presence. As your Website becomes more popular it becomes more attractive to Crackers.

If you are looking for Security and Backup Plugins for your WordPress Website, then look no further. In this article, I share and review the Best 17 Free WordPress Security and Backup Plugins that don´t cost you anything. Continue Reading »

The area of online storage has dramatically expanded in the past several months to encompass a more robust theme: that of a personal content management. The idea that you can create a repository of your personal files and access them from any Internet-enabled device is the next logical step in cloud computing.

Yet, deciding which Personal Content Management App is the right choice for you can be a challenge. Continue Reading »

WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your content. In this tutorial, I will show you how to selectively remove Header Tags (h1 through h6) and their content for the automatically generated excerpt. Also I will show you how to selectively remove Header Tags and their content while at the same time preserving HTML formatting for other HTML tags. Continue Reading »

Using the Internet on mobile handheld devices is a rather convenient option for users. Considering such convenience, entrepreneurs and SME owners initiated a dazzling idea of mobile Websites. The launch of mobile Websites originated a marketing oriented trend that received increased user engagement and hit a never touched market segment. In this post, we will review the top 5 mobile Website building tools to consider. Continue Reading »

By default, WordPress blog automatically send a pingback to itself any time you link to one of your own internal old post. It would be nice if this self-pingback feature can be turned off in the dashboard.

Self-pings, or pings within your own blog, are found useful by some, annoying by others. Those who find them useful feel that self-pingbacks is a good approach to increase inter-linking between posts. Continue Reading »

The objective of this post is (hopefully) to cheer you up for April´s Fool day and also to celebrate my 98th post on this blog. I was supposed to publish this yesterday, on April First, but I am late. But as they say: “Better late than Sorry.”

You know the English version of the days of the Week, and this is the AbiChedid´s version:

In this tutorial, I will discuss the basics of Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress. For now, remember that both are methods for blogs to communicate with each other. Trackbacks are more prone to spam than Pingbacks. All WordPress Websites are set up, by default, to send and receive pingbacks automatically.

If used properly, trackbacks and pingbacks are another way to increase traffic to your blog and build links. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial I will show you how to display the WordPress default allowed HTML Tags list for the comment form on your WordPress blog, as shown in the image below:

Also, I will show you how to modify the allowed HTML tags and attributes list to fit your needs. I will show you how to remove tags from the default list and how to add HTML tags to the list for the Comment textarea in WordPress. Continue Reading »

CodeLobster is a code editor for PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. A shareware product that offers code debugging, syntax highlighting, dynamic help, auto-complete, class view and other features that helps with coding. Codelobster PHP Edition streamlines and simplifies PHP development process. You don’t need to keep in mind names of functions, arguments, etc. It is implemented for you in the auto-complete feature for PHP, HTML, JavaScript and even CSS. Continue Reading »

Are you running Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system? Have you ever had the problem where the Disk Defragmenter tool is NOT opening or Failing to start even when you try to run as an administrator?

Disk defragmentation is the process of consolidating fragmented files on your computer´s hard disk. Fragmentation happens to a hard disk over time as you save, change, or delete files. Continue Reading »

This tutorial is specific to WordPress, but if you use other blogging platforms, you may be able to adapt some of the instructions. This tutorial, is intended for single-author WordPress blogs. References will be given for multiple-author blogs and for Guest bloggers.

Several months ago, Google started including authors profile in Search Results by highlighting authors in SERPs. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to separate pings (Trackbacks & Pingbacks) from comments when using the wp_list_comments() function in WordPress. The wp_list_comments() function is located in the comments.php file in your theme´s folder.

The wp_list_comments() purpose is to display all comments (including Trackbacks & Pingbacks) for posts based on a variety of parameters including ones set in the dashboard in Settings -> Discussion panel. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to exclude certain pages from the navigation menu when using the wp_nav_menu() function in WordPress. The wp_nav_menu() function is usually located in the header.php file in your theme´s folder.

To my surprise, I discovered that the wp_nav_menu() does not contain “exclude” as one of its parameters. So in this case, how to prevent certain pages from showing up in the menu? Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically display an HTML Sitemap for Custom Post Types in WordPress without the need of a plugin. Dynamically means that the Sitemap updates automatically with every new Custom post added. Yes, there are plugins that add an HTML Sitemap to your blog. But I encourage you to read my previous post about unnecessarily adding plugins to your theme, and you don´t need a plugin for such a simple task. Continue Reading »

In a previous tutorial, I showed you how to display a plain, non-sortable “Views” Column for Posts in the WordPress Dashboard. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make that “Views” Custom Column Sortable for Posts, ascending or descending based on the number of post views.

A WordPress developer asked me the following question: Is there a way to make the “Views” Custom Column sortable in the WordPress dashboard? Continue Reading »

Antivirus software provides an essential layer of protection from a range of viruses, trojans, worms, spywares, adwares, dialers, keyloggers and rootkit infections. Most current Antivirus programs have a reasonably good detection rates of all forms of malware.

When your computer connects to the Internet, it is exposed to viruses and other malicious software. Continue Reading »

Do you want to show your Most Commented Posts on your Blog? In this tutorial, I will show you how to display your most popular posts (based on Comments) in WordPress Without a Plugin. Probably you already have seen Blogs displaying the Most Commented Posts and you wonder how it is done.

Yes, there are plugins that display the most popular posts on your blog, but they all tend to do a lot more than you need. Continue Reading »

Do you want to show your Most Viewed Posts on your Blog? In this tutorial, I will show you how to display your most popular posts (based on Views) in WordPress Without a Plugin. Probably you already have seen Blogs displaying the Most Viewed Posts and you wonder how it is done.

This tutorial is a natural progression from my previous tutorial: How To Track & Display Post Views Count in WordPress Without a Plugin. Continue Reading »

Do you want to know how many times a post has been viewed on your Blog? In this tutorial, I will show you how to count post views and display it on your WordPress Blog and also in the dashboard without the need of a plugin. Probably you already have seen some Blogs displaying a View Counter for each post and you wonder how it is done. Continue Reading »

For a WordPress blog, pagination refers to displaying a limited number of posts per page. Pagination allows users the ability to navigate much easier and deeper into the archives. In this post, I will show that my previous tutorial about adding Pagination without a plugin in WordPress, can also be used on Custom Post Types without any modifications. Continue Reading »

For print and Web designers, Stock Photography is a must. Several years ago, there were only a few Free Stock Photography Resources, but now their number has dramatically increased and finding the best ones that offer free high-quality photos can be a headache at best.

Do you need a free photo for you next creation? Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to Highlight and Style Author’s Comments on WordPress Posts (or Pages) without a plugin. If your WordPress theme, does not already style the Author´s comments differently from your visitors comments, and you like to know how to do that, then this tutorial will show you the way, along with several examples and scenarios and all the details you need. Continue Reading »

In the past year, Online Storage has really come into its own. Services like DropBox and Box.net have risen in popularity. Apple seems to have finally struck a chord with its cloud offerings in the form of iCloud (after two relatively lukewarm previous cloud and online-storage related attempts). Businesses as well as consumers are more and more moving their data to online storage Websites. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add and style Paged Comments to your WordPress Blog without a plugin. For a WordPress blog, comment pagination is used to display a limited number of comments per page. Instead of using the default « Older Comments or Newer Comments » links, paginating comments display a full list of comment pages using numeric indexes. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to transform comments in your WordPress blog from a Linear format into a threaded (or Nested) format without the need of a plugin. There are probably plugins that enhances commenting, but I don´t think you need any, since threaded comments feature in WordPress is not new and is available since version 2.7. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically add a Multi-Level(up to 3-level deep) Dropdown Navigation Menu to your WordPress blog without the need of a plugin. This tutorial is NOT about creating custom Menu widgets but rather a native theme support for Page or Custom multi-level navigation menu. The navigation menu can range from a single top level and up to 3 level deep. Continue Reading »

For this blog, I decided to give my visitors yet another theme to choose from: the Dairy theme. This theme is coded with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 standards, and thus it is best viewed with the latest browser versions.

Same as the other 3 themes available for this blog, the Dairy theme has been extensively customized, modified, enhanced with new features and functionality, and fixed to fit this blog. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily redirect your visitors to a temporary maintenance page without the need of a plugin. The custom maintenance page lets your visitors know that your WordPress Website (or blog) is down for maintenance. Logged-in administrators will still have full access to the Website while visitors see a customized maintenance message. Continue Reading »

One of the great things about WordPress is the ability to customize your Website by using Themes. WordPress themes provide much more control over the look and presentation of the content on your Website. A WordPress Theme is a collection of files to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a Website. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically display an HTML sitemap for your WordPress blog without the need of a plugin. Dynamically means that the sitemap updates automatically with every new post and other blog changes. Yes, there are plugins that add an HTML sitemap to your blog. But I encourage you to read my previous post about unnecessarily adding plugins to your theme. Continue Reading »

Every time you search on Google you are flooded with all sorts of Websites and tutorials telling you what you NEED to do to succeed. Sometimes it can be hard to weed out what you actually should be doing and what is a waste of time. Instead of looking at all the different tips you should be doing to make your Website successful, here are five of the most useless Internet Marketing tips out there you should avoid:

For developers and designers, cheat sheets offer essential help in providing quick reference guide. In my previous post, I listed 37 must-have cheat sheets for Web developers and Web designers. Nonetheless, I left out many more cheat sheets for other Web programming, scripting and markup languages, and for different frameworks and Web technologies, that is impossible to list. Continue Reading »

A Cheat Sheet, also known as a crib sheet or quick reference guide, is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. It is a document containing summarized information used for quick reference. Most Web developers and Web designers know that cheat sheets are extremely useful, where you can use them for quick reference and easy learning. Continue Reading »

Logo design is a challenging and creative task for a graphic design professional. It involves painstaking hours of research and brainstorming apart from the actual design work. It is possible to use various types of design elements for making stunning logos. A number of designers use various types of symbols for logo design. Some professionals also use symbols with text shapes for creating the desired effect. Continue Reading »

Are you running Windows Vista/7 operating system on your computer? Have you ever had the problem where the desktop is black, the trash bin is the only item on the desktop and a message appearing at the corner of your screen saying:
“Failed to connect to a Windows service: Windows could not connect to the User Profile Service service. Continue Reading »

DoFollow and NoFollow are important factors for SEO that influence the ranking of a particular Website in search engines. DoFollow is a term that does not exist. It is a term given to Websites that are not using the rel=“nofollow” attribute in links. nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of the HTML link to instruct some search engines not to pass on any influence to an outbound link. Continue Reading »

Selecting a Website design agency can be a challenging prospect. When you type in “Website design agency” in Google, thousands of results come up. So, which agency should you choose? You can either select the first one which shows up in the search results or ask your acquaintances for a recommendation. Researching the best agencies in the business is also a good option but it is going to take excessive time and effort. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily turn your WordPress blog from the default NoFollow to a DoFollow blog without the need of a plugin. Why not turn your blog into a DoFollow blog and get more visitors, more traffic and eventualy more recognition in the Online community. Probably you already have seen some blogs displaying the DoFollow image and you wonder how it is done and what it really means. Continue Reading »

This post is for Web developers and designers who struggle with testing their Websites across multiple browsers and platforms. A Website might render differently in different browsers and platforms and even in different versions of the same browser. Cross-browser refers to the ability of a Website or Web application to support all Web browsers in all platforms. Continue Reading »

There are many Websites that offer information about anything you can imagine, Websites that share tips and How-To´s. It can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones with the accurate and reliable information. In this post, I have listed the best 13 Websites that offer free tips and How-To’s.

No matter what you are looking for, these Websites will show you the way. Continue Reading »

Have you ever wondered if your visitors are fed up with your WordPress theme? The same theme over and over again? I know I am.
How about giving your visitors the option to change your theme? Do you want to know how to allow your users to view different themes on your WordPress Website?

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a multiple Theme Switcher for your users and also how to create a Theme Viewer to showcase your unpublished themes to your customers. Continue Reading »

As any blogger will tell you, blogging is no simple task. There are so many aspects of maintaining a successful blog that go unnoticed and unmentioned for the most part. In many ways, maintaining a truly successful and active blog requires the same commitment that a second job would. Successful blogging demands constant attention. Bloggers have to update their blog regularly with new material, respond to comments and correspondences each day, maintain the workability of their blog, find new avenues for inspiration, and much more. Continue Reading »

In a previous post, Boutros discussed the top free offline desktop editor for your blog. In this post I will elaborate further… As bloggers, I think it is pretty safe to say that we are always trying to find ways to make our jobs a little bit easier. Any shortcut comes greatly appreciated because crafting quality blog posts takes a fair amount of time and effort. Continue Reading »

Making a living working online is a more and more common daydream in today´s world, and with good reason the number of potential Internet jobs is increasing every day, with no end in sight. In a very real sense, the only limit to the number of jobs the Internet can provide is how imaginative and entrepreneurial people are capable of. Continue Reading »

This is a short post to announce (and advertise) my latest work: Byblos Rentals Website.

It is a simple Website that I hand-coded using only XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Some characteristics of this Website are:

1. It follows HTML and CSS standards required by the W3C.
2. It follows accessibility standards required by Section 508 Federal law, and by the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 for people with disabilities. Continue Reading »

And why you are losing out without one… Before the Internet, I was not a fan of marketing. It all seemed like a misleading façade to convince people to buy a product they didn´t need. Because of the billions of dollars of advertising campaigns and corporations could spend on marketing, I lost complete faith in grass-roots or do-it-yourself (DIY) marketing. Continue Reading »

In the past, it was relatively easier to put Websites at the top of the search engine results with a little bit of tweaking of features like content and SEO. However, with Google´s Panda update, it is clear that Google wants to promote only those Websites with rich and authoritative content. Hence the concept of Website authority has gained even more significance. Continue Reading »

Are you tired of the default WordPress Login screen? Would you like to customize the Login screen for your WordPress Website or your customers´? In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily Customize WordPress Login screen, to standout from the crowd, without the need of a plugin. Specifically, I will explain how to replace the default WordPress logo in the Login screen with your Logo or your customers´ Logo for a more professional look and better branding. Continue Reading »

If you are looking for a short-cut method to successful SEO, STOP!

There are black hat SEO techniques…short-cuts that are considered illegal by the search engines. Never opt for black hat SEO, it will lead your Website to doom and ruin your reputation. To rank higher in SERPs, always use white hat SEO methods. Continue Reading »

Web developers need to install an FTP client software to transfer files between local computers and Web servers. People doing a lot of file transfers, especially people involved in Website development and maintenance, understand the value of a reliable, secure and fast FTP client.

FTP is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a TCP–based network such as the Internet. Continue Reading »

A Desktop blogging editor, also known a Weblog client is a software that runs on your desktop and let you post to your blog via remote publishing XML-RPC specification. Think of a Weblog Client as the equivalent of an Email client such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird. Essentially, the Weblog client allows you to write a post offline; then you can publish it the next time you connect to the Internet. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily develop and display the Author´s Bio box in your WordPress posts without the need of a plugin. Probably you already have seen some Websites displaying the Author´s profile at the end of each post and you wonder how it is done.

Are you putting a face to your articles? Continue Reading »

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily display the word count of a WordPress post without the need of a plugin. Admittedly, this is probably not very common to see the word count displayed in a Blog. However, in case you need to display the post´s number of words, this tutorial will show you how. Continue Reading »

Yesterday, WordPress 3.2 has been released. The focus of this release is to make WordPress faster and lighter, with a new dashboard design and a new default Twenty Eleven theme that fully supports HTML5, among other improvements.

When you can, download and update to the latest version of WordPress 3.2, or you can automatically update via your WordPress admin panel. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial I will show you the right way to completely remove the WordPress generator meta tag from the header section of your WordPress Website´s source and from your feed. Also I will show you the full code for removing other default tags generated in the header of your WordPress Website.

By default WordPress leaves its footprint on your Website. Continue Reading »

The speed and performance of your Website has quickly become one of the most definitive aspects of successful blogging. As we have all experienced, our society today is rapidly becoming obsessed with speed and instant gratification. With the internet so heavily involved in our everyday lives, the speed and performance of your Websites is essential to holding readership and gaining more traffic. Continue Reading »

WordPress Excerpt is a summary of your content. In this tutorial I will show you how to preserve HTML formatting for the automatically generated excerpts without the need of a plugin, and also choose what HTML tags to keep. For a manually typed excerpt, WordPress will keep all HTML formatting you have included in the excerpt. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial I will show you how to enhance WordPress Excerpt by using simple functions and without the need of a plugin. WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary of your content.

The relationship between the Manual Excerpt, Automatic Excerpt, and Teaser is this: When a post has no manual excerpt and the post template uses the the_excerpt() tag, WordPress automatically generates an excerpt by selecting the first 55 words of the post followed by the unlinked ellipsis “[...]”. Continue Reading »

This is my thirteenth post in this series. It is a handy list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free blogging software platforms available nowadays.

There are many blogging platforms available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. But after an extensive research, reviews and trying few of them, below are the best free blog publishing tools. Continue Reading »

And you thought there are only three. This is my Twelfth post in this series. It is a convenient list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free self-hosted Content Management Systems available these days.

There are many Content Management Systems available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. Continue Reading »

This is my eleventh post in this series. It is a convenient list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free PHP frameworks available today for your next Web project.

There are many PHP frameworks available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. But after an extensive research, reviews and personally trying couple of them, below are the best free PHP frameworks available nowadays. Continue Reading »

Displaying “Related posts” is a popular feature and an excellent way to keep visitors longer on your WordPress blog and help them discover other related content. One way to keep them interested is to display a list of related posts; otherwise, they might just leave.

The picture below shows an example of Related Posts generated for this blog. Continue Reading »

If WordPress Editor in your Administration Panels behaves strangely and not as you expect it, then continue reading, this post might be your solution.

Problems With the WordPress Editor

A little background: This blog is a self-hosted WordPress blog. Since its creation, about 14 months ago from this post date, I was using IE7, and then IE8 to access the WordPress Dashboard. Continue Reading »

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform, but with its popularity increases the risk of your WordPress Website being cracked. There are more things that you can do to help protect your WordPress Website as I discussed in details in my previous security tutorial.

One aspect of hardening WordPress security is your Login page as shown in the image below. Continue Reading »

This is my tenth post in this series. It is a convenient list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free JavaScript frameworks and libraries for your next Web project.

There are many JavaScript frameworks and Libraries available and it can get confusing and difficult to figure out the best ones. But after an extensive research, reviews and personally trying couple of them on my work, below are the best free ones available. Continue Reading »

This is a short post to announce that I recently purchased the new domain http://boutrosabichedid.com/, but I did not buy the Web space for it. So for now it will be redirected to a subdomain of this blog.

The beauty of this Website: it is a simplistic Website that I wrote using only HTML and CSS. Continue Reading »

This is my ninth post in this series. It is a handy list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best free online tools for searching existing domains, suggesting and registering new Web domains.

In my previous tutorial, I have outlined some tips for choosing the right domain name for your online presence. Continue Reading »

Are you considering a domain name for your business? If so, I have listed 13 important tips to help you select a great domain name. A domain name is your unique business address online. It helps bring traffic to your business and suggest services or products of the the business.

Deciding on a domain name is an important decision you need to make. Continue Reading »

Are you considering a Flash Website? If so, it is important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of Flash Websites. Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity. Flash is a powerful authoring tool, but like any tool some things are best solved with Flash, while others are not.

Advantages: Reasons to Use Flash

Flash use in advertising and online games is increasingly common. Continue Reading »

Two days ago, WordPress 3.1.1 has been released. This is a maintenance and security release that fixes almost thirty issues from the 3.1 version.

Whether you have already upgraded to WordPress 3.1 or not, this is the best time to download and update to the latest version of WordPress 3.1.1, or you can automatically update via your WordPress admin panel. Continue Reading »

This simple tutorial shows you the easiest and the most convenient way to find the ID of your tags, pages, posts, links and Categories in WordPress without the need of a plugin. Prior to WordPress 2.5 these IDs were listed as an additional column in your administration panel. However; this is not the case anymore with the newer versions of WordPress. Continue Reading »

For a WordPress blog, a Tag cloud displays a list of tags. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each Tag is shown with different font size. The size of each Tag is determined by how many times that particular Tag has been assigned to posts. Tags are links that lead to a list of posts associated with each Tag. Continue Reading »

For a WordPress blog, pagination is used to display a limited number of posts per page. Compared to the default WordPress page navigation, numbered pagination allows users the ability to navigate much easier and deeper into the archives, like numbered pages of a book. Pagination is used in almost every Web application to display returned data on multiple pages. Continue Reading »

This is my eighth post in this series. It is a handy list, a one stop shop if you like, of the best Freemium Online data Storage, File Sharing, File synchronization and Backup services. Ok! I admit, there are NO totally free services available.

Everyone needs to backup important data in one way or another. Continue Reading »

In this tutorial I will show you 3 solutions, from a developer´s point of view, how to prevent Skype from automatically highlighting phone numbers displayed in your Website. Also I will show you, from a user´s point of view, how to disable Skype phone highlighting in Internet Explorer.

The Problem

If you have Skype installed on your computer and you use Internet Explorer as your Web browser, then there is a good chance that Skype highlights phone numbers on Web pages as shown in the image below. Continue Reading »