Last month I took over support of one project that inspired this post. It is a website with couple static pages, news and galleries that was created with Joomla. The problem was that site owners could not support it. They are not computer savvy and the internal structure of admin Read more…
Recently, I had simple but interesting problem on wordpress where I could not find ready automatic solution: thumbnail generation based on image ratio. I use wordpress as CMS for image-heavy site. For example, I want that 3 sized images: For landscape pictures I need 202×133 thumbnails For square (or alike) Read more…
Email marketing is still useful for list builders and keeping in touch with your consumers. However, quite often communication is lost in the email Spam box and not read by recipient. How to solve this problem? Here are some tips. Your server and domain First thing I would check is Read more…
I have read a tweet about PHP programming today that made me furious. “Handling complex logic in PHP is like doing the LSATs after shock therapy” What is wrong with this statement? It moves responsibility from coder to the coding language and that is completely wrong in this case. Firstly, Read more…
Sometime we get a new inexperienced guy in a company as a programmer. Typically, we test them beforehand; however they are rarely perfect when started. Sometimes they are very new to programming or have bad habits from previous programming jobs. Thus it is my goal to help them to improve. Read more…
There is couple of reasons to develop site distributed under multiple subdomains, e.g. subdomain1.domain.com, subdoman2.domain.com, etc. Each subdomain might be a distinguishable mini-site, which offers better separation of topics and even protects main site rankings to some extent. However, subdomain approach has one issue that needs to be solved. That Read more…
Quite often I am hired to perform modifications in other web projects done by someone else. This might be an unmaintained website bought ages ago, or when programmers mess up. It is tough to analyze your own code after couple of years from creation. It is much harder to analyze Read more…
Today I want to talk about really unproductive topic – that is how to code poorly. Or, more exactly, I am going to pick on my unfavorite piece of social site again, that is Boonex. We will talk about how one should not implement user sessions and how to do Read more…
Google analytics does good job at monitoring pages visited, but what about pages that are not found on your server and thus never displayed? You can get these pages by moving the content around, having errors in your links, getting malformed links from various webmasters (often they are caused by Read more…
A traffic spike might be a joy for marketing department after successful advertising placement or a viral campaign. However, you will not be able to use up that traffic if your website is not loading properly. And that is quite common: no one likes to pay for more hardware than Read more…