Add Twitter Follow Button to Left Side of Website

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Twitter is a popular service that helps people deliver real-time mass communications. If you have a blog or website and a Twitter account, why not make it easy for your visitors to follow you? Included in this tutorial is: simple HTML code for your site (html and text file), and two follow images. Download the [...]

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How to Hide Clicky Ad Badge – Breakdown of Tracking Code

Clicky Code Breakdown

A few days ago I wrote a post about how to use clicky to track Craigslist ADs but I never explained implementation. Below you will see a break down of the code and explanation. A very important side note, THIS EXPLANATION ONLY APPLIES TO THE PAID VERSION OF CLICKY.   Above is an example of [...]

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Thunderbird Settings SMTP for q.com Mail

So, after messing around with these settings for about an hour, I got Thunderbird to finally send mail. I have had this problem before and I have decided to blog about this so everyone can take a shortcut. The correct settings for the q.com SMTP mail server as of 01/19/2010 are: Thunderbird q.com e-mail settings [...]

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Display Random Testimonials in PHP

Display Random Text in PHP

Lately I have been working on some new projects. I have a client right now that operates a service business and they would like to display testimonials on their site. For this application, I wrote a custom, simple solution to accomplish this with PHP. Here is a preview of the code: This code can also [...]

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How to Track Craigslist Ads

If you are using Craigslist as part of a marketing campaign to gain extra exposure, there is no doubt that you want to track your results. Tracking your own Craigslist postings can seem challenging as Craigslist doesn’t allow you to run JavaScript or other code (leaving out Google Analytics, etc…). But… There is a service [...]

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Click to Remove Text with JavaScript

I have been working on some new projects and it seems that adding some UX (user experience) makes a website flow better. Today I will be talking about how to remove default text from a textbox by simply clicking on it or by using the onFocus function with JavaScript. So… I have a textbox for [...]

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