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Prevent hotlinking of your images using htaccess

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

If you suddenly experience a lot of traffic to your images that are not coming from your site, it’s often because of hotlinking. If you’re on limited bandwidth this can be a real pain. Here’s an easy way to prevent it using your .htaccess file. So here is how to do it in four lines:

Adding more languages to wordpress spellchecking

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Just a little wordpress tip that you might find useful. I needed to add danish spellchecking to a wordpress blog and found that it was really really easy. All you need is you functions.php file in your theme and the ability to write in it. (If you’re scared, make a backup. If not then cry [...]

How to check if your email has been blacklisted

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Ever started to get those not delivered emails in your inbox? It’s annoying, especially if you have sent some important emails to clients or partners. Often it is because of the recipients spam filter or a large file that is too big. But sometimes it can be your email that has been blacklisted. And that [...]

12 Firefox tweaks and hacks

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Firefox, the application most used on my computer. Take away itunes, skype, hell even photoshop but leave me with firefox and I’ll be al right But there are some hacks and tweaks to make firefox even better. I’ve gathered 12 that I use on my personal installation here.

14 places to find free quality fonts

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

A special font is a great way to make your website, poster, CD cover etc. stand out. There’s a lot of free fonts on the web, most of them are quite bad, so you have to go through a lot of site to find the good ones so I thought I would save you some [...]

Ideas to increase conversion rate

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Conversion rate – the number of conversions made divided by the number of total visits. It’s the holy grail of e-commerce websites, it’s the figure that every webshop tries to optimize and the number that management is never really satisfied with. There are some basic things, that you can do, to help users get through [...]

5 plugins to do inline form validation with jQuery

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Inline form validation is a great usability feature that helps ensure that your visitor don’t fill out your forms incorrectly and submit just to be prompted with a message, that they have forgot a @ in their email address by making the the validation process happen while or just after they type something in a [...]

8 ways to get more out of your google analytics data

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Knowing how many visits/pageviews you have or how much traffic Google is sending your way, is a good way to measure your online marketing effort, but there’s a bunch of good opportunities to make your site better and finding new ways to go with your content in Google Analytics that, sadly, is overlooked by many [...]

Using CSS sprites on your website

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

I mentioned CSS sprites, as a way to cut down the load time, of your website in my speed up your wordpress blog post. I would like to elaborate a little on that and share more reasons to use css sprites. What is CSS sprites? CSS sprites is a way to combine all your decorative [...]

How to create a favicon in Photoshop

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Getting a favicon on your website is a great way to help your visitor find your website, in their bookmarks. If you do not know what a favicon is, it’s the small icon next to the URL in the address bar of your browser. It’s also shown besides bookmarks in all common browsers. It’s a [...]