Sometimes friends and clients complain about competing sites that should not be there:
No obvious optimization
Content is crappy, mentions term once and in very different context
Few or no links
Design is old and ugly
However, such site is in the first page and sometimes quite high in results. So, what are the reasons for this?
Personally, I have seen [...]
– December 22, 2009
Last month I took over support of one project that inspired this post. It is a website with couple static pages, news and galleries that was created with Joomla. The problem was that site owners could not support it. They are not computer savvy and the internal structure of admin panel is way too complex [...]
– December 9, 2009
Recently, I had simple but interesting problem on wordpress where I could not find ready automatic solution: thumbnail generation based on image ratio. I use wordpress as CMS for image-heavy site.
For example, I want that 3 sized images:
For landscape pictures I need 202×133 thumbnails
For square (or alike) images I need 156×142 thumbnails
For portrait images [...]
– November 11, 2009
Email marketing is still useful for list builders and keeping in touch with your consumers. However, quite often communication is lost in the email Spam box and not read by recipient. How to solve this problem? Here are some tips.
Your server and domain
First thing I would check is the spammy IP list. Is your IP [...]
– November 2, 2009
Security Tool is a rogue antivirus scam, using generic name for disguise. Together with Cyber Security, they are hitting computers hard and forcing users into buying their “full” versions to remove non-existing virus infections. Typically, Security tool states that one’s PC is infected with Spyware.IEMonster or similar parasites, however, the real infections are very different.
The [...]
– October 12, 2009
I have a very mixed feelings about one issue in anti-spyware community. That is how products are marketed as free. During the years as I work in the industry, there were a large amount of products marketed as free despite the fact that their important features are paid ones. Typically, this was the remover itself. [...]
– September 10, 2009
I have read a tweet about PHP programming today that made me furious.
“Handling complex logic in PHP is like doing the LSATs after shock therapy”
What is wrong with this statement? It moves responsibility from coder to the coding language and that is completely wrong in this case.
Firstly, PHP has syntax similar to C, which is [...]
– September 3, 2009
Sometime we get a new inexperienced guy in a company as a programmer. Typically, we test them beforehand; however they are rarely perfect when started. Sometimes they are very new to programming or have bad habits from previous programming jobs. Thus it is my goal to help them to improve. And sometimes it gets really [...]
– September 1, 2009
First, I must state that I am not a convinced fan of Hootsuite due to my picky nature. However, It is as close as it gets to perfect web based twitter client for me now. Recently, I have found a way how to properly save time used to post good quality content using Hootsuite.
First, this [...]
– August 30, 2009
Savedefense is a skin of rogue parasite TrustNinja, whose family seems to use very strange names. It was released in the end of August and marks a start of new season of rogue parasites. Apparently, Personal Antivirus is no longer a trusted name, however the malware distribution method used still works.
The most likely place for [...]
– August 28, 2009
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