In its quest to become king of the internet, Google has forayed in to many areas developing quite a few cool products and services along the way. The latest offering from the search engine giant is no different - a URL shortening service. From the official announcement ... There are many shorteners out there with great features, so some people may ... Read More »

Back in October of last year I blogged about a dummy post pack offered by Think Design. (see Dummy Post Pack) What is a dummy post pack? To quote from that article ... What is a dummy post pack? Let me put it this way. You're running one or more instances of WordPress locally and just came across a new theme you want to try out. You install it in ... Read More »

There are many factors that can affect the load time of your web site's pages such as HTTP requests, scripts and the very server your site resides on among other things. One of the most overlooked aspects of page load time is image optimization. This is especially true if your page contains many images or even a few large ones. While there are ... Read More »

What is a dummy post pack? Let me put it this way. You're running one or more instances of WordPress locally and just came across a new theme you want to try out. You install it in one of your dev blogs then check out what it looks like. It looks fine but something is missing - content. Enter the dummy post pack. The dummy post pack is simply an ... Read More »

A question I see pop up from time to time in the WordPress Support Forum is how do I stop people from viewing my plugins folder? There are several ways to go about this - all of them easy. The first method involves placing an empty index.HTML file in EACH folder you want to protect. If you prefer you can include a brief message in that file rather ... Read More »

Back in March I described how to embed a flash object in your blog that is XHTML valid via two different methods. (see Embedding XHTML-Valid Flash) Thanks to a recent comment on that post there is yet another simple way to achieve this. Validifier is an online tool that easily generates standards-compliant flash embed code. Simply paste your embed ... Read More »