Archive for December, 2007
An Example Rich Text Editor Image Upload with PHP
After my previous image uploader and turbogears image uploader posts, the overwhelmingly most requested information has been a PHP implementation of the upload script. I’m not much of a PHP guru. Luckily, a few users have posted possible solutions for this. I’ve added an editor to this post that uses a PHP [...]
Key Website Statistics: New Visitors and Conversion Rate
There are a few key statistics that every website operator selling a product or service should track. Of course, these are useful for other types of sites too, but when you’re attempting to sell something, you need to know where to spend your time and/or money to be most effective.
Unique vs New Vistors
A lot [...]
9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
I came across this article on Digg.com. It contains pretty concise tips that I can follow and make sure I’m doing. Since I’m not a designer and don’t necessarily have the best ability to choose matching colors and appropriate fonts etc, I find articles like these helpful to bookmark for reference when tuning [...]
How to Manage Gmail labels with Apple Mail and Imap
After I set up Apple Mail to use my Gmail account, I had a couple things I was still having to go to the Gmail web interface for. One of those was managing multiple labels for a particular message. Since that time, I did some experimenting and have figured out how to manage [...]
Creating Image Preview Tooltips with the YUI Overlay Widget
The Yahoo UI Library provides a nifty helper for creating tooltips. I started playing around with it when I wanted to add the same tooltip to a large number of elements on a page. What got me interested in this implementation, is the ability to use the same tooltip on a number of [...]
Can Google’s Adsense bot understand gzipped html pages?
During my experiments with WP-Super-cache, I noticed a strange thing happen to my Adsense ads. A short while after getting gzip compression to work properly, all my ad content had foreign characters and strange seemingly unrelated content.
Having changed nothing on my blog except for installing WP-super-cache, I decided to add an additional check to [...]