One of the things I learned many years ago was that if a client balks at the price, they're a problem client. There are exceptions, of course, but some clients do this routinely - they're the ones I'm talking about. IMHO, those clients are almost never profitable. Read the rest of this entry »

Please explain to me how it is that Yahoo! can't figure out that the following e-mail messages are spam... It boggles my mind...

Example 1:

From: Jasmine Carter <eshulsenerman55@yahoo.co.uk> (was this sent from Yahoo! mail? Wouldn't the user hve a bad history?)

Subject: PrettybtP0rn0qshotswz NkLwEcPfjuBSvtYzMh

Body: http://74ce532cee461e8c.faceplanesize.com!}TrKbR3ineUtLzxINIU PJBgeXVHxUdnRToTQMqagL Read the rest of this entry »

Your site may look great on screen, but have you thought about what it looks like when it's printed or what it looks like when a mobile device accesses it? Take a moment and print a page from your site - you might be surprised with what comes out of the printer. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the reasons why Apache is such a popular web server is because it's almost infinitely expandable and flexible. There are some incredibly powerful things you can do with Apache's config settings, and .htaccess is the most common way to modify those settings. Read the rest of this entry »

In the last post I discussed how to do a script to randomly display banner ads on a site. The next step is how to handle the clicks on those ads (or on text ads).

You might just think you should embed the links directly in the HTML, but that's often a bad idea. Let's say your sponsor runs a special promotion that uses a special promo link code. You may have the links all throughout your site in blog posts, banner ads, sidebar text ads, etc. There will be too many things to change to take advantage of the special promotion. Having all your outbound sponsor links go through a single script will fix that problem - change things in one place and all your links are changed. Read the rest of this entry »