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If you are receiving warnings or even errors about your homepage being accessible both via domain.ext and domain.ext/index.php, there are two solutions: Add to your header file, or to your index.php file the following snippet: <?php $cpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if($cpage == ‘/’ || $cpage == ‘/index.php’) echo ‘<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.butterflymedia.ro/" />’; ?> This way, Google [...]

This is a step by step tutorial about optimizing a link directory site. I’m doing this for my one and only link directory which starts to grow old in a world of social media domination. First of all, a basic Google Analytics metrics shows a very high bounce rate. This is understandable as users arrive, [...]

Microsoft Announces The Outlook Social Connector

Yet another social connector. Not sure if it will work, though. But sure as hell it will get patched. Microsoft Outlook 2010. “The Outlook Social Connector is a set of new features to help keep track of your friends and colleagues while enabling you to grow your professional network. The Outlook Social Connector is available [...]

Google SEO – Better Late Than Never

Q: Does this mean that Google will always ignore the keywords meta tag? A: It’s possible that Google could use this information in the future, but it’s unlikely. Google has ignored the keywords meta tag for years and currently we see no need to change that policy. These were rumours a year ago, and SEO experts [...]

Firefox 4 User Interface Update

While actively developing Firefox 3, and beta updates are knocking on our doors, the Mozilla team released some alpha UI concepts. As noted on the 3.0 Windows Default Theme Issues Wikipage, Firefox feels dated and behind on Windows. Especially Vista and Windows 7. These issues include absence of Glass, anemic purple toolbar color on Vista, [...]

“Vanessa Fox is probably most well known for launching Google Webmaster Central, but she has since moved on to found Nine By Blue, a company that examines online customer engagement and acquisition. Well, we caught up with Vanessa at Pubcon 2009, and sat down with her to discuss recent Google Caffeine and other recent developments [...]

What I Dislike About Windows 7

I used Windows XP for years more than 8 hours a day, and I got pretty used to it. Servicing and troubleshooting by phone was piece of cake. When the Windows 7 OS took over XP on my notebook, I started noticing features and behaviours that didn’t help me in my quest of taking over [...]

What I Like About Windows 7

The first thing I liked as a web developer ever since I booted up my new Windows 7 installation was the sticky note. I used to have lots of TODO lists on desktop and sometimes I used to forget about some of them. Sticky notes for me are a productivity enhancer. I use them every [...]

Windows 7 Ownership Issues

I just installed Windows 7 on my notebook, and I ran into some issues. I had some old Windows installation on another partition which I wanted to delete. Unfortunately, Windows said I need administrator rights to delete. But I am the administrator. Apparently I am not the owner. After searching the Internet for a while [...]

Google Apps Issues

I activated Google Apps for some clients of mine, me included, and one of them is experiencing some issues. He is using Google Apps together with Push, a beta feature that lets you synchronize your mail between your Google Mail account and your iPhone. As you all know very well, Google products are always in [...]