Teach Yourself Ruby With Hackety Hack
When I started to program back on my C-64 I taught myself.
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Why Webmasters Should Analyze Their 404 Error Log
When you load a website in your browser, a lot happens in the background to render and display that website to you.
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Ghacks.net WordPress Plugin List
Back in 2010 I published a list of WordPress plugins that were installed here on the site.
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Zulu URL Risk Analyzer, Website Safety Check
If you have never visited a website before, you do not really know what's in store for you.
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Two WordPress Tracking Plugins That Measure Popularity
As a WordPress webmaster, or webmaster in general, you are likely interested in how well your articles are doing.
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How To Analyze WordPress Plugin Performances
I have been using WordPress ever since I started blogging here on Ghacks in 2005.
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Create Local Websites With Ampps
The majority of web developers develop their websites and services locally before they publish them on the Internet.
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Run A Local WordPress Blog With One-Click
A local WordPress blog is a fully functional WordPress website installed directly on your computer (localhost) rather than on a remote web server.
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An Update On The Website I Bought Last Year
In Why Website Investments Are Better Than Stock Market Investments I mentioned that I bought several websites last year as an investment.
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WordPress 3.3.1 Security Update Available
A new version of the popular blogging software WordPress has just been released.
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WordPress 3.3 Now Available
Update: WordPress 3.
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Embed Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus Without JavaScript
Search engines like Google Search use a page's loading time as a signal when they compute that page's ranking in their search engine results.
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Learn How To Use MySQL Online
Most webmasters have learned the basics of the HTML scripting language before they moved on to programming languages such as PHP or Python.
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Fat Pings, What Are They, Why You Need Them As A Webmaster
Content scraping is a big issue on today's Internet, and a challenge for search engines to get it right.
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Speed Up WordPress Page Loading Times By Removing l10n.js
I recently noticed that my WordPress blog's page loading times increased through the roofs which made me reevaluate everything that contributed to the loading t
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MobiTest, Test Mobile Website Performance
The rise of smartphones and other mobile handheld devices has increased the importance of optimizing websites for smartphones and other mobile devices.
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Is Your Site Being Outranked By Scrapers? Report Them!
So called scraper sites or scrapers are one of the dark phenomenons of the Internet.
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Display Author Profile Photos On Google Search
Update: Google has disabled the feature again.
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Google Launches Panda Algorithm For Additional Languages
Google launched a new search engine algorithm earlier this year that they internally called the Panda update.
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A-B Testing Made Easy
I'm usually not reviewing commercial services for obvious reasons, but I'd like to make an exception today.
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Submit URLs To Google Via Google Webmaster Tools
Creating a new website can be a very rewarding process.
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8 Essential Tips For Web Investors
In Why Website Investments Are Better Than Stock Market Investments I have listed arguments for investing in websites, and not in stocks or other types of inves
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Google Page Speed Service, Website Optimization Service
Google just announced the availability of the webmaster related service Page Speed Service.
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Load Google+ Button Asynchronously For Faster Loading Times
Webmasters have little choice but to add the Google+ button and other social networking buttons to their websites.
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Test Website Screen Resolutions and Mobile Compatibility
One of the things that you need to make sure as a webmaster is support for various screen resolutions.
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Moving A Website To A New Host, Server Guide
You may know that I bought a website recently.
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Why Website Investments Are Better Than Stock Market Investments
Investing money requires research, lots of research.
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How To Change The WordPress Admin Interface Fonts
With the release of WordPress 3.
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WordPress 3.2 Released, Design Refresh
Update: WordPress 3.
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WordPress 3.1.4 Security Update Released
Update: Please note that 3.
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Optimize Websites With GTmetrix Web Performance Reports
As a webmaster, you have to make sure that your websites are loading as fast as possible, without sacrificing functionality.
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Add Thumbnails To Your WordPress Blog
Blogging with WordPress is an easy, quick way to get your posts to viewers without sitting down and coding an entire website by yourself.
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Opera Mobile Emulator
Mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, start to become popular for normal web related tasks like visiting websites, watching movies or playing games.
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Connecting Remotely To The Cloud
When data such as web applications or HTML pages are used on a cloud based server it becomes essential to set up remote connection to connect to it.
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Build My Pinned Site, Webmaster Tool
Internet Explorer 9 supports a new pinned site feature that can be used to pin websites to the Windows 7 taskbar.
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Attention Webmasters: Fake Domain Renewal Emails Spotted
I have a lot of domains.
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Software Development and Spelling in your Source Code
For most developers, keeping your source code's comments, error messages, check in notes and even variable names free of spelling mistakes is not the most press
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Panabee, Domain Name Suggestion Tool
All good domain names are already taken.
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Add easy-to-add functionality you your .Net Development Project with NuGet
NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that enables you to download and use shared code libraries with the Microsoft development community.
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Reduce Page Loading Time With WP-Smush.it For WordPress Blogs
A core website metric is page loading time.
