Category: Web Development

Creating Your Own URL Shortening Service With YOURLS

May 31, 2010 | By | Add a Comment

YOURLS (stands for Your Own URL Shortener) is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to create your own URL shortening service. Like most scripts its requirements Apache with Mod_Rewrite, PHP and MySQL which makes it easy to install in virtually any hosting account.

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Banning IPs using .htaccess

May 10, 2010 | By | Add a Comment

One of the many features the file .htaccess provides for a website is the ability to ban IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses from accessing it. This could be useful when a spambot, scrapper or leecher is consuming your bandwidth.

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Using Woopra with vBulletin

March 22, 2010 | By | 14 Comments

I’ve been using Woopra, the real-time Web tracking and analysis application, with CodeHill for over year now. The WordPress plugin they provide is working perfectly. But I recently added DoFollowForum.com, which is running vBulletin, and the available plugin was for an older version of vBulletin than the one I have installed. So I added the [...]

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Promoting Websites Via Free and Paid Packages

March 15, 2010 | By | Add a Comment

The packages and web solutions which are found advertised and listed over the net, including the free and paid ones may be among the popular and workable systems to test when it comes to launching a new website and then consider all the possible routes and methods to better promote it in today’s online competitive [...]

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Designing an Effective Landing Page

March 1, 2010 | By | Add a Comment

In the vernacular of online searching, a landing page is the first contact an advertiser or a web host will have with the visitor, and because of this fact the landing page is the best opportunity to win or lose their attention. Learning how to utilize words and phrases, and in some cases graphics and [...]

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Use of H1 tags in SEO

February 4, 2010 | By | 4 Comments

H1 tags are one of the most important part of SEO which is the header tag situated in body of a website. It can be termed as the most simple form of header found on a web page. Through h1 tags search engines come to know about the site content details. If its used in [...]

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Growing Importance of Website Seal

January 28, 2010 | By | Add a Comment

Establishing trust with the customers is highly essential for earning profits and higher sales. The trust factor is same for a physical shop as well as a website. If you have offered quality product first time, the same thing is expected when they come second time for purchase and if you fail to offer that [...]

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