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Securing Your WordPress Website

Secur­ity has become a fore­most con­cern on the Web in the past few years. Hack­ers have always been around, but with the increase in com­puter lit­er­acy and the ease of access to vir­tu­ally any data, the prob­lem has increased expo­nen­tially. It is now rare for a new web­site to not get com­ment spam within days of its […]

.htaccess

Stu­pid htac­cess Tricks This art­icle cov­ers just about every htac­cess “trick” in the book, and is eas­ily the site’s most pop­u­lar offer­ing. a to z of word­press .htac­cess hacks The .htac­cess file allows you to eas­ily improve your blog’s secur­ity, reduce band­with and increase usab­il­ity. In this post we’re going to look at 26 .htac­cess hacks, from A to […]

CSS Border Style Values? | Impressive Webs">How Do Browsers Render the Different CSS Border Style Values? | Impressive Webs

You’ve prob­ably used CSS’s bor­der prop­erty often, and in almost all cases you’ve prob­ably set the border-​​style value to “solid”, which looks exactly the same in every browser. Read more »

Website thumbnail preview pics

These guys have done some­thing really clever. Presents neat little thumb­nails of web­sites to include with the links  —  http://linkpeek.com/api/v1?uri=[web page address]

Seriously, Just Make a JSFiddle

Has any­one ever asked you for help troubleshoot­ing some com­bin­a­tion of HTML, CSS, and JavaS­cript, and they copy and paste the entirety of all the files into an email or forum post? It’s super com­mon, and so con­sider this an intervention…

Lorem ipsum generators

Lorem ipsum gen­er­ator Veg­gie ipsum: the veget­arian lorem ipsum gen­er­ator Cup­cake ipsum: auto-​​​​generated text that will actu­ally make people love your pro­ject even more. Bacon ipsum: does your lorem ipsum text long for some­thing a little meat­ier? Space Ipsum: a space-​​​​themed Lorem Ipsum gen­er­ator. Because space is cool, and latin is not. Gang­sta lorem ipsum Hip­ster lorem ipsum

The top 10 passcodes you should never use on your iPhone

Are you one of the many people who is using a dan­ger­ously easy-​​​​to-​​​​guess passcode on your iPhone? Maybe you should do some­thing about it  —  sooner rather than later. read more»

URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?">URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?

URL short­en­ing ser­vices are exper­i­en­cing a renais­sance in the age of Twit­ter. When every char­ac­ter counts, these ser­vices reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? Below, issues to con­sider and a break­down of pop­u­lar ser­vices, includ­ing recom­mend­a­tions and […]

misc webby stuff

A couple of use­ful journ­als: Journal of Uni­ver­sal Rejec­tion Journal of Are You Fuck­ing Kid­ding @font-face gotchas Nooooooo! Press in dire situ­ations (watch out, it’s loud) Some of the web­sites I weave are: Quakers QLA qla​.quakers​.org​.au Quakers SA sa​.quakers​.org​.au Anangu justice in our land anan​gujustice​.aus​pics​.org​.au ANTaR SA ant​arsa​.aus​pics​.org​.au Marion Mar­lins Mas­ters Swim­ming Club mari​on​mas​ters​.info Roma Mitchell human rights volun­teer centre rmhrvs​.aus​pics​.org​.au