Monthly Archives: September 2010
Date Display Technique – CSS Sprites – Full Source
There is an article which shows a technique for showing the date using a sprite image and some CSS, using background-position: The article doesn’t offer the full code, so to save some time writing out all the styles, here it …
Top Ten SEO Gurus To Follow on Twitter
Social media is booming, and twitter is where it’s at. Here’s a list of the top ten SEO gurus you should follow to stay current with the latest tricks, trends and techniques. These guys range from Google employees, to SEO …
How does reCAPTCHA work?
Most are familiar with the captcha system know as reCAPTCHA. It’s slogan “Stop Spam, Read Books” implies it’s purpose, which is to have human minds “OCR” text from books which have been damaged and are in poor condition.
Security Flaw Wreaking Havok in the Twittersphere
This afternoon, a security flaw was exploited on the social networking platform, Twitter. The flaw allows people to post javascript to their status updates to make things happen that, shouldn’t. The scripts you can inject could open up windows, exposing …
How to stop visitors accessing index.php?
In the interest of search engine optimisation, it’s important that index files, be it, index.php, index.html, index.aspx, etc are not directly accessed by visitors. It’s a common mistake when developing a website to link to the index file. This is …
