Category Archives: Web Development

Virus when searching Google shows ‘QFxZ-CAA’

In Google Chrome, the browser somehow became infected and now shows a blank page with the letters QFxZ-CAA and it redirects to wewewesearch.com. The whois on that domain shows ipower is the host and it does show an administrative contact. … Continue reading

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Google Chrome Review

First impressions suggest that Google Chrome is quite an impressive browser, but after longer term use, it seems like an unfinished, 80% complete project. Advantages of Google Chrome: Much faster! Way faster than IE and a little faster than Firefox … Continue reading

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Google Search is Broken

On 12-20-08 at 9pm, when you search for ‘Google’ in Google, here’s what you get… Within Google, just do a search for ‘Google’… The search results are wrong. Notice the domain names of other websites. The title & descriptions don’t … Continue reading

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Drupal Websites

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) using LAMP technology (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). It just happens to work quite well for basic websites. Here’s the first Drupal website I made a month ago which took less … Continue reading

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Search and Replace Wildcard Characters in Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver has a powerful search/replace ability which includes ‘regular expressions’. This allows you to scan and replace particular html without affecting data. Here’s an example of how useful this is: Let’s say you are harvesting content from Wikipedia and putting … Continue reading

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20 Useful Webmaster Tools

As a webmaster, there are a variety of tools used to track and monitor progress, links, rankings, and overall health of your website. The following 20 ‘tools’ are either URLs or actions you may take to gain valuable insight into … Continue reading

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Mastering Social Media Marketing

To become a competent web marketer is to dip a foot into each of the numerous social media networking pools. I will tell you exactly which these are right now: Facebook.com Myspace.com Linkedin.com Digg.com Twitter.com Meetup.com Besides the social media, … Continue reading

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Best Way to Develop a Website

I have been fortunate to have developed multiple websites from scratch. I have found some things useful and others not. One of the most important aspects of a successful site is planning. Here is the planning process I have used. … Continue reading

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Google: to protect and serve

I just discovered that Google filters and blocks sites it thinks contains viruses or malware. That’s nice of them. Here’s an example: http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.hypnodude.com/ This is supposed to be Ron Stubb’s website, which worked a few weeks ago, but now appears … Continue reading

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