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Last Updated on August 14, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
I had backups set to run at 3 am figuring that would be a time where there would be few users. That way, the impact on the server of the backup job would be minimal. I noticed that the sites would slow down when I worked on them at night.
Last Updated on January 21, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
I went down a rabbit hole trying to enable gzip compression for my sites. I found that the website checkers weren’t checking for Brotli, a newer compression tool.Â
Last Updated on January 19, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
Be extremely careful when using images on websites or blogs. You can get hit with insane demands for payments or sued for up to $155,000.
As I was resurrecting my blogs, the issue of the rights to images arose. There is no problem with images I took or images inherited from my parents. HOWEVER, using any other images must be done with extreme caution.
Imagine trying to unscramble eggs and put them back in an intact shell. If you think you can accomplish that, then skip this article. Otherwise, read on for some tips as to how a developer can leave you with an expensive mess.
I was building a WordPress site where the headline and slogan were relatively long. At certain aspect ratios, the text overlapped the logo image in the header.
The solution was to add some custom CSS and to make use of the Artisteer responsive design.
Last Updated on December 9, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
At times you want to check your browser environment. Here is a tool that you can use to show the browser environment including OS, browser, resolution, JS, Java, Flash, cookies, ad blockers and some more.
Last Updated on December 4, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
We decided to change hosting companies. One of the sites we were migrating had an FTP based blogger blog (ie. blogger was hosted on our site).
There are a lot of tools available that will allow webmasters to allow visitors to upload pictures and then make them immediately available to other visitors.
On one of the webmaster boards I frequent, someone raised the question of checking uploaded pics for inappropriate content. In other words, the uploaded pics were visible immediately.
Last Updated on December 3, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
I have a client who insisted on keeping the background images that were on their website. We did it because we will give the clients what they want. However, we did advise against it for a number of reasons
Thanks to one of the replies at webmasterworld.com, I found a list of more sitemap generators.
One of the online generators seems to be working well. You can find it at http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp It is an onlne app that runs on Java.
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