Posts Tagged 'Wordpress'

If you think you can just build a website and expect it to perform well you can think again. Getting a website to the top of search results is every marketing managers goal. Im going to run through five key points that will put you in good stead to getting the results your site deserves. SEO is often percieved as a dark art. If you start out well and get the basics done the quality of your content should speak for itself. However …

API Knowledge
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more …

Learning a new programming language can be daunting to say the least. I’ve recently cracked it when it comes to jQuery. I wouldn’t say Im a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I can successfully build applications. It wasn’t an easy ride learning a new syntax, I’m going to run over a few tips and techniques that i found useful learning both jQuery and PHP.
Take Time To Learn
In order to get into your new programming language you need time and commitment to perfect …

How many times have you booked that holiday or purchased a new gadget and been presented with a button that says ‘Print your receipt’? Users generally have to be pushed into executing a physical action such as printing a receipt or confirmation letter. So to do this we can use a simple line of JavaScript that goes in the href of our link to open the print page prompt window.
It’s also worth pointing out that to get the best results, its best to create a …

I haven’t written a post for the last week, largely because I’ve been busy behind the scenes developing the new site design. The last theme i had was a standard theme that wasn’t really modified, but this time I’ve used the Arthemia theme and heavily changed it. The most important changes that I’ve made are the ‘Popular Tutorials’ drop down section on the homepage which will change regularly with new tutorials, and the section on the right of the homepage that allows you to follow …

My last blog post was on how to make an autosuggest tool with jQuery, no sooner had i pressed the publish button did i find my complete blog post on guidesigner.net I had spent time and effort writing that tutorial for the people who read my blog and for the love of the internet, there’s certainly no financial gain in blogging for me, I have a few Google ads but i do it purely because i’m passionate about the internet. to find the exact post …

I’ve been away for the last week. My wife and I bought a flat in North London and finally moved in on March 16th. So I’m currently without the internet and won’t have it until the end of March which is frustrating when I want to update my blog but simply can’t so please excuse my infrequent posts over the next few weeks.
Here’s a quick piece of code to simply display your feedburner stats on your blog. I’m yet to post my stats publicly on …

A few days ago I was looking around the internet for a solution on how to add Gravatar avatars to my Wordpress comments section, and I found out that its easier than I originally thought! I thought there might be quite a bit of code to implement but found out that it requires just one line of PHP. So here are the steps to adding user Gravatars to your comments.
Step One
The first thing to do i log into your blog and under ‘Settings’ click ‘Discussion’ …