by Fredrik Hugås | Mar 3, 2013 | Articles, Featured
Today (March 3rd 2013) I noticed my webpage was suddenly down, of course I thought the problem was on my server, especially since I just updated some things on it. I couldn’t find anything out of the order, and I checked some of the other sites I run on the...
by Fredrik Hugås | Jan 23, 2013 | Articles, WordPress
Have you tried validating your WordPress site using the W3C validator thinking your site was up to par with today’s standards? Only to see a long list of errors on your site? Don’t worry, we all have been there, well most of us at least. And there is only...
by Fredrik Hugås | Nov 11, 2012 | Articles, Featured
mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that make Apache rewrite and resize your assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) without requiring that you modify your existing content or workflow. mod_pagespeed is built on PageSpeed Optimization Libraries, deployed across...
by Fredrik Hugås | Oct 12, 2012 | Articles, PHP
There is a special if/else functionality available that not many programmers know how to utilize that I now want to share with you. This function is called a Ternary operation. The ternary operation takes 3 arguments, The first which is the conditional expression, the...
by Fredrik Hugås | Sep 11, 2012 | Articles, PHP
Sometimes you want to send mail from your php code, maybe you want to send a mail to yourself on an event or send a message to your users or subscribers, don’t fear this is not a hard task to accomplish, and as usual in programming, there is many paths to the...
by Fredrik Hugås | Aug 17, 2012 | Articles, WordPress
RSS is often used to publish frequently updated works, such as blog entries, news headlines etc. in a standardized format. An RSS document includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. A standardized XML file format allows...
by Fredrik Hugås | Aug 15, 2012 | Articles, Flash
Adobe have been under heavy preassure from HTML5 lately, now they (finally) lost the war. I say finally because I have never liked the non-proprietary idea of Flash. The complete internet experience In 2007 Adobe were active marketing Flash for mobile, the only...
by Fredrik Hugås | Aug 8, 2012 | Articles, SEO
Ancient history Nowadays many web developers around the world underestimate the impact page size has on their sites performance. Back in the days before broadband was considered a standard, people was sitting on slow internet connection with their modems. Back then...
by Fredrik Hugås | Jul 26, 2012 | Off Topic
The first major thing an invading country should do is to take down twitter to disrupt communication and spread panic amongst the population. This is common knowledge. Today I tried logging in to twitter, but I could not connect to the server, all other webpages...
by Fredrik Hugås | Jul 26, 2012 | Articles, WordPress
WordPress has a functionality called shortcodes which gives you the ability to insert generated elements into your posts just by typing in a shortcode in the text. All you need to do to make this work is to define a function in your theme’s functions.php file,...