Category Archives: Web Related

Wufoo - Hosted Form Service

I’ll be the first to admit that this free script solution isn’t the most full-featured form builder I’ve ever seen, but it is very simple and handy for it’s intended purpose. Sometimes however, you need a little more muscle. Wufoo is just such a muscle. It’s a great, hosted service that lets you manage and [...]

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Creating Web Contact Forms Script

Aaron Wall recommended this site in a recent TechCrunch comments thread, and I absolutely fell in love. I’m not much of a programmer, so I’m always bugging my partner to make me little scripts or do simple things for me when I need something, but this is the kind of thing that will help me [...]

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Download POP Gmail from more than one computer

One of the major downers when using Gmail as your primary email account is that you can only download emails to one computer using POP. You can set it to not mark items as read or move them to archive, but if you go from one computer to another, each trying to download emails to [...]

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Check a site at a repointed domain before DNS catches up

So, my friend Matt taught me a nifty trick this afternoon. I had recently uploaded a new site to a server, then switched the DNS settings over to it. It was going to take a while before the DNS propogated itself, and I didn’t want to wait (actually, I wanted to double check it was [...]

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Get better at keeping track of affilliate programs

I’m definitely a amateur when it comes to PPC campaigns, but I still have a lot of fun with them. However, my wife likes to make sure I’m staying in the black and not venturing into the deep red of negative margins. When I heard about the new InstaCalc website, where you can build your [...]

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Using Robots.txt to Protect Wordpress from Google

I’ve found several people lately talking about using robots.txt files to help their ranking in Google and get pages out of the supplemental index. Especially if you use Wordpress, you can quickly start having way too many pages that just list out your content, using up link juice, while your posts themselves are sitting there [...]

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Update Company information in Google Finance

A client of mine is a publicly traded company, and while looking at their company information in Google Finance, I noticed that the “Company Summary” had some inconsistent information. I wasn’t immediately sure what to do to correct it, but soon found the correct place. If you would like to change any information about a [...]

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Setting up Wordpress

Wordpress has become the blog engine of choice these days as it’s super easy to set up, unbelievably flexible, and best of all, free. I’ve set it up for myself, clients, and friends probably over 30 times. Each time I get a bit faster at it, and each time I try and make sure I [...]

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Earners Blog Review

Part of getting better at things, is knowing where to look for the information. And for me, getting even better means consistently reading as much as I can from people who really understand whatever it is I’m trying to improve at. One of my hobbies is Internet Marketing. While I’m by no means even a [...]

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Using Textile

I find Textile somewhat frustrating. I’m not really sure it’s better than HTML, because I have to learn so many random codes now. While it may be simpler than HTML, I’m not really sure it’s any easier to learn, especially since HTML actually uses tags that make sense semantically. For instance <strong> makes sense to [...]

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