Category Archives: Internet
Solving 403 errors with CloudFlare
Recently I’ve switched over to using CloudFlare, for those unfamiliar it’s a proxy caching service. It caches resources from your site in several data centers. When looking over Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed every page it crawled was a 403 … Continue reading
Holiday Shopping Tips
During the holiday seasons countless people spend more and more money online. Online shopping is becoming more popular, for many reasons. It’s easier than fighting crowds at large stores. Many online stores run special sales during holidays. Overall it’s just … Continue reading
WordPress, Caching, and Compression
After reading an interesting article dealing with optimizing your WordPress blog I decided to optimize mine. I detail how I cut page load times in half by simply enabling caching and compression in an Apache web server. Continue reading
Dynamic Stylesheets using PHP
Recently while doing some work on my theme for WordPress I came across a very helpful idea. Using PHP in a stylesheet to make it more dynamic. The basic idea is to use PHP variables and define certain elements that repeat in various places such as a color code to make it easily changeable by only having to change one line instead of searching for and replacing multiple times. Other examples are fonts, images, widths, even whole sections of code could be shown or hidden with the use of variables and an if statement. Continue reading
Firefox 4 Mockups
Mozilla has starting thinking about Firefox 4 and with their new mock ups have starting throwing ideas around. There are two different versions as of now, tabs below address bar and one with the tabs above the address bar. Continue reading
