If you are running a website, be it as a hobby, semi-professional or professional you need to know some tools of the trade. Webmaster tools can help the webmaster in many different areas like verifying that the website will display fine in all modern web browsers or ensuring that the search engines do not encounter [...]
Ghacks Web Development PDF Article Compilation January 09
The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09. The articles are provided in PDF format to make them readable on most operating systems and devices. We are providing article compilations to give you the chance to read the articles offline and keep them as reference without having to [...]
Google’s SEO Starter Guide
Search Engine Optimization is essential for webmasters who want to promote their websites to their fullest extent. It is usually divided into onpage and offpage SEO. Onpage SEO describes the process of optimizing the website itself while offpage SEO describes all methods of attracting links to the website.
Most search engines do not talk about SEO. [...]
Firefox Domain Lookup Add-on
Some webmasters develop a keen sense for spotting valuable domain names. They might be reading an article, thinking about something or discussing something with friends or coworkers. It makes “pling” suddenly and they have the idea for an excellent domain name. If only it would be still available. The usual way to check that would [...]
Publish RSS News Feeds On Twitter
Joe Anderson who recently began writing articles for Ghacks send me a message two days ago asking what I thought about Twitterfeed and I had to admit that I never heard of that service before. He let me know that webmasters could use Twitterfeed to publish RSS News Feeds on Twitter. What it does is [...]
Check For Dead RSS News Feeds
Many tech savvy Internet users love RSS news feeds to keep up to date with the latest articles and news of their favorite websites. Unlike bookmarks however RSS news feeds cannot be checked for dead sites that do not get updated.
Rarst posted a process on his own website that makes it possible to check all [...]
Image Optimization With Smush It
One important task of being a webmaster is optimizing the elements of a website to provide visitors with a fast loading page. Unoptimized images can increase the page loading time tremendously. It was not uncommon ten years ago to see site headers with 100 Kilobytes and more. This has thankfully changed and it is only [...]
