WordPress for Genealogy
Oct 13For those of you out there interested in seeing a genealogy site built using ‘mostly’ WordPress, please visit ManyRoads. Obviously the site is one of mine (my family genealogy). However, I think it provides a pretty decent example of what you can do to slice and dice a ‘bunch’ of information into a ‘pretty useful’ format. I have tried to use a plugin for...
Highlight (spotlight) your content
Apr 22One of the handy items worth doing with a website is highlighting specific content. It turns out that there are a number of WordPress plugins available capable of doing the work, to one degree or another. However, for me there is one that stands above the crowd: === d13slideshow === The beauty of this tool is that it does what most of the others can but it does not conflict with the plugins...
Update Services
Jan 04Because most of us post to BLOGs in order to be read, having a good and complete list of update services is essential. As I was surfing the web I came across a rather complete, current, and thoughtful listing. This list is maintained and located at: http://elliottback.com/wp/a-list-of-rpc-and-rpc2-to-ping/ Many thanks to Elliot C. Back.
Database Admin Tool
Aug 24I don’t know how many folks, like me, have had troubles using phpMyAdmin to perform large MySQL database restores, but if you have, then perhaps this little set of pointers will help you out. I know this process has made my life easier. As most of you probably already know, phpMyAdmin is a wonderful toolset. It makes database management and editting both simple and straightforward. ...
WebMaster Tools
Mar 04Most of these pointers are courtesy of: http://mywebresource.com .htaccess Generator .htaccess URL Rewrite Adsense Calculator AdSense Preview Advanced Meta-Tags Generator Advanced Syntax Highlighting Alexa Rank Comparison Alexa Traffic Rank Backlink Checker Base64 Encoding / Decoding Broken Link Checker Check Server Headers Class C Checker Code to Text Ratio CPM Advertising ROI Calculator CSS...
CSS Guides
Mar 04CSS: Style Sheet Guidelines Web applications should always adhere to W3C standards and validate correctly. Numerous excellent CSS style Guides are available that discuss the how-tos of achieving these objectives, below are a few: References: Miha Hribar Interface / CSS Coding Guidelines NYPL Style Guide Tutorial: Style Master CSS...