If you are a webmaster you will eventually stumble upon users in the access logs that tried to access pages on the website that do not exist. These visitors are presented with a 404 error page that can be customized by scripts but also simple html. It could for example point the visitors to the [...]
Wordpress Broken Link Checker
Broken links on websites and blogs can have several negative side effects. This includes visitor frustration as broken links waste their time and can change the perception of the website the link was posted on but also the perception of search engines, other web services and reviewers that crawl and visit the website. Google for [...]
Stumbleupon URL Shortening Service Su.pr Out Of Beta
Oh noes, not another URL shortening service. That’s probably the first reaction of many users who read the announcement that Stumbleupon’s URL shortening service Su.pr is now available publicly. As if there were not enough services of this kind already. There are however a few aspects of su.pr that make it quite unique in its [...]
Domain Name Registration Lookup
There are literally thousands of online services that allow webmasters to lookup domain name registration information. These services will tell the webmaster if a domain name is available for registration or already registered. Many domain registrars allow users to place so called backorders which will basically make the domain registrar register the domain name in [...]
SitePoint Raises Rates; Tells Customers to Stop Whining
On June 22, 2009 the domain sales service known as SitePoint split and changed their name to Flippa. Flippa’s design is simplified compared to SitePoint although it still offers options to browse popular categories like established or premium websites. According to SitePoint, Flippa will offer a new search function that allows users to search for [...]
Website Optimization: Page Speed For Firebug
Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]
Web Development: Realtime Fonts Changer
Selecting the right font and font characteristics can be quite a daunting task. The information are usually defined in a CSS file that needs to be edited multiple times until the right font selection has been made. Another problem that might occur is caching that might require the webmaster to delete the web browser cache [...]
