If you use the WordPress All In One SEO Pack plugin and have not updated it recently, do it right now. Two potentially serious weaknesses have been discovered. The bad news is these are potentially very serious security holes that could allow a hacker to take control of some aspects of you site or inject cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on users. The good news is that a … [Read more...]
What is Shill Bidding?
Shill bidding occurs when someone places a bid on an auction for the sole purpose of stimulating bidding activity or raising the bid prices--with no intention of purchasing the product. Shill billing most often occurs when a seller is either getting no bids or is not happy with the bid prices thus far. Sometimes sellers with multiple auction accounts bid on their own offerings; … [Read more...]
More FAQs About Responsive Design
Many people have questions about responsive design WordPress sites. These are some of the most common questions. If you want to see a demonstration of what can be done with this coding technique, visit our responsive design demo page. Can Any Website Be Converted to a Responsive Design? Unfortunately, not all sites are easily converted. A site that has a very complex … [Read more...]
What is the Ken Burns Pan and Scan Video Effect?
Pan and scan effects can be added to still images used in videos to give the viewer a sense of motion. It is commonly referred to as The Ken Burns Effect. This is not because he was the first to use it, but rather because he was the innovator who made it popular through creative use of the effects in his PBS and History Channel historical documentaries. The Ken Burns effect … [Read more...]
Responsive Design FAQs
Responsive design websites are a fairly new approach to Internet technology that is likely to become the standard for website design. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions along with answers. How does responsive design technology work? Responsive design uses CSS3 media queries to detect the display dimensions on a user's viewing device. A web page is then … [Read more...]
What Is Responsive Design?
Responsive design websites are the latest trend in website presentation technology. These types of web sites utilize CSS3 (cascading style sheets version 3) and a new feature called 'media queries', which is recognized by all modern browsers and almost all smart phones and mobile devices produced in the last 4 or 5 years. In a nutshell: Responsive Design = Fluid Design … [Read more...]
What to Expect With Internet Explorer 10
As someone who has been developing web sites for the past 15 years, I have always considered Internet Explorer to be the most broken browser on the planet. If you are going to experience a browser problem with your web site not rendering properly, the problem always seems to show up in IE, even if it displays properly with every other browser. IE has also experienced many more … [Read more...]
WordPress Message: Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check Back in a Minute.
If you are doing an automatic upgrade with WordPress and the only thing you see where your site should be is the message, "Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check Back in a Minute.", your upgrade failed. I have seen this message before and knew what to do, but it just happened during an upgrade to WordPress 3.5.1 so I thought I would let others know about the … [Read more...]
Problems With Tech Support at Hosting Companies
It seems to be getting harder to find a hosting company with very good tech support. For business web site hosting, the company needs to have techs on duty 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The techs also need to be experienced. While most of the larger hosting companies do provide 24/7 support, we are seeing a decline in the quality of the services provided by some hosts. … [Read more...]
Display Seasonal or Holiday Images Using PHP
We recently built a wild bird food products web site where the site owner wanted to display a summer image of birds on a bird feeder during the warm months, but automatically substitute a Christmas bird feeder image during the November and December Christmas holiday season, and then a winter shot during the following winter months. In this PHP tutorial I thought I would share … [Read more...]