Here are 100 tips how to make your blog popular: Blog Planning: 1. Check if your future blog niche will be profitable 2. When you choose blog niche follow your passion 3. Start blogging if you can do it seven days a week and on vacations 4. Select good domain name 5. Give your blog [...]
I think that even when you read only a freelance job offer’s text, you can learn much about the client. Here are my simple tips (in my opinion) how you can identify bad freelance buyers to stay away from them: 1. Mr. ‘I want new Windows. 800 USD max’ It’s always funny to find such [...]
After PHP best practices in Security – Part 1 and Part 2, here’s the first post of the series about PHP best practices in Performance. 1. If you want to output a basic string, you’d better use single quotes, instead of double quotes. If you use a string surrounded by double quotes, it’s parsed by [...]
Here’s simple example how can we export some table data to docx file using Open XML SDK. If you are not familiar with Open XML SDK, you can check out first Introduction to Open XML SDK. In this example: 1) Create some string array that represent table data 2) Create a new Docx file and [...]
This weekend I sold banner ad space in one of my websites. The client wanted two banners to be rotated in same place. Here’s a simple php script how it can be done: <a href=”http://advertise-site-url.com” target=”_blank”> <?php $variable[1] = ‘<img src=”http://www.mysite.com/ads/banner-1.jpg” alt=”banner 1″ />’; $variable[2] =’<img src=”http://www.mysite.com/ads/banner-2.jpg” alt=”banner 2″ />’; $adCount = count($variable); $randomAdNumber = [...]
In the Reduce Code Size Tool, I wanted to add ability for the users to be able to export the Output TextBox’s Text into file. It can be done dynamically, without need to create a temp file into the server. Here’s an asp.net example how it can be done: Response.Clear(); Response.AddHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/html”); Response.AddHeader(“Content-Disposition”, “attachment; filename=” [...]
Here is a new portion of cool website that can be used for inspiration: 1. Portfolio – Mauricio Guimaraes It’s very professional portfolio website written in Flash. I liked the contact form – the idea how e-mail and phone are displayed over images. I should use this idea in my websites: URL: http://mauriciostudio.com/ 2. Organic [...]
If you use the FireFox browser and WordPress for blogging platform, here are some FireFox extensions that could make your blogging life easier: 1. WordPress Post FireFox Extension This extension could save you a lot of time, because it allows you to post the text you select from browser directly to your WP blog. URL: [...]
For couple of years work as a freelancer, I decided to share some tips when you negotiate about a freelance work: 1. Always be Kind I know it’s hard, especially after all day debugging some sh*t. But you should always be kind with your client, that will make the negotiation easier. If you are a [...]
If your web server’s access permissions are wrong, it will be easier for somebody to take control over your server. So, next 3 advices are how to fix your access rights: 1. Do not allow PHP files to be writable. 2. Do not allow executable and writeable files in your web root. 3. Do not [...]
