If you want a convenient way to track your facebook shares and likes and have access to the “backend Admin Pages” facebook automatically creates when you have implemented all the necessary code in your page, this one is for you.
Admitted, we joined the facebook share/like social plugin button craze late.
Partially because before we didn’t know enough about the inner workings of the implementation as well as growing security and privacy concerns revolving around facebook.
But eventually we gave in, after doing our research we integrated both buttons into our blog and waited. We waited to see if somebody was actually using the buttons, and what was going to happen when someone did.
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We all know that facebook has eliminated the *Become a Fan* button and has replaced it with the more generic *Like* button. Like it or not.
But there still are 2 different options to express your appreciation for an (external) page: You can *share* it by clicking the *share* button or you can *like* it.
In the past weeks, more and more clients are reporting infections with *Antispyware Soft* malware.
Antivirus Soft is yet another fake antispyware, similar to Antivirus Live and/or Spyware Protect 2009.
It imitates a system scan and claims to find multiple infections, no matter which shortcut you try to click on or which program you try to start.
How much is too much?
Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
Screenshot taken today, May 5 2010 @ 7:30 am PDT.
After many hours reading up on the caveats of transparency; after tabbing through many suggestions found on many websites, blogs and forums; after trying to create visible containers on top of invisible containers, changing positions from relative to absolute and back only to see layout go totally awry, I finally decided to create my own approach to display child elements that do not inherit the parent’s transparency setting.
This is not a fix for every single browser out there and for every possible scenario, but it’s working in IE > 6, Firefox 3+ and our current versions of Safari (4.0.3) and Opera (10.51).
(If you come up with a variation to make it work in additional browsers, please share your findings!)
In the last post (Add a Twitter Feed with jQuery) we talked about how to add a twitter feed with jQuery, now it’s time to do the same with PHP. The whole idea was to get the same result by using similar methods provided by the Twitter API – and again it’s easier than you might think.
All you need is:
the twitter username/userID/screenname (preferably your own) of the feed you want to embed
and a few lines of PHP code.
Although announced back in November of 2009 (Site Speed, Google’s Next Ranking Factor), it seems like this update has been overlooked by most webmasters, site owners and a lot of SEO-ers.
In a Webmaster Central Blog entry (Using site speed in web search ranking) dated Fri, Apr 9 2010, they finally made it official.
So give your pages a little overhaul and get them up to speed!
Adding a twitter feed to your website is easier than you might think.
All you need is:
the jQuery library
the twitter username/userID/screenname (preferably your own) of the feed you want to embed
and a few lines of code.
Following last week’s redesign of magellanworldltd.com, this week it’s time for the official introduction of magellanearth.com.
It is for our UK-based client Magellan World Ltd and provides information on Ground Source Heat Pumps:
"Recognising today’s need to provide alternatives to the use of fossil fuels, Magellan Earth in conjunction with Transen Sustainable Energy Systems, have developed a range of Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs) which harness the natural energy beneath your feet.
The ambient temperature from the ground is captured by the GSHP, amplified and used to provide heating and hot water.
GSHPs are an environmental solution that can reduce your carbon footprint by 80% over conventional methods."
