Ahhh…sIFR – also know as “Scalable Inman Flash Replacement”. I’m not going to go through and tell you the history and all that – there’s plenty of information on it out there for you to peruse at your leisure. Me, I’m a “get to the point” kinda gal – as you all know. For a long time, people have wanted to move away from he “standard” fonts found in a particular browser, and use a...
read more ›Okay, so here we move on to Part 4 of my “taking too long to add to this” series I had a client this week who is an author. He does some work on practice lists, and wanted a spot to gather his writing together. The thing that he wanted was something that would count the words within his posts – since many of his lists require practice pieces to be under a certain word...
read more ›The Content Scraper (for sites that have no feed). ::now holding my ears to shut out the yelps:: Okay, okay – calm down. Here’s the thing. I debated long and hard about putting this here. I truly did. People hate content scrapers, and yes – for the most part – the ones that use it for horrid purposes are evil bastards. But being in the Christmas spirit that I always get in at this time...
read more ›Ahhhhh…. ye olde “Send to a Friend”. One of my recent clients really wanted this sucker for every single post on their site – all you needed to do was put in your email address, your friend’s email address, maybe write a little personal note and send it on it’s merry way. The problem with “Send to a Friend” scripts is the abuse factor. Basically, you’re leaving your server wide open for some POS to...
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