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Server-generated emails on websites requiring registration or verification, often do get not through Hotmail and Yahoo Mail spam filters. Hotmail requires a valid SPF record which is easy to implement. And, Microsoft will whitelist your domain for Hotmail if you request it.
Yahoo filed a patent for the DomainKeys concept in 2003. They still use DomainKeys [...]

I recently got the nasty “XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location” error instead of RSS feed on two client WordPress sites.
First, I tried the Fx-RSS-Feed plugin. No luck! it identified several hundred WordPress and theme files with unnecessary whitespace. Most of the files were write-protected. Way too much [...]

Most common internet browsers only support a limited number of fonts. A client wanted to emulate the look achieved by BBC’s Later site using Wordpress. That meant using SEO unfriendly images to replace the headings or dynamic font replacement. The latter is not only SEO friendly; it is also much easier to implement.
I looked at [...]

Web developers use dummy text as placeholders when building websites. Dummy text is required when the final text is not yet available from the client. It is used to demonstrate the appearance of different typefaces and layouts. Usually, the dummy text is nonsensical or unreadable my most people as not to distract from it’s purpose.
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I just finished helping a friend bring back a Sports Blog after a nasty hacker attack. Luckily, we had a backup of the database. Otherwise, we had little chance to restore the site.
Here are a few tips to keep unwanted visitors from doing damage to your blog.
Set your File Permissions Properly
Use 755 for directories, 644 [...]

Javascripts to hide email addresses from spammers have been around for a while but perhaps you missed this one. I have been using it more and more for my client’s HTML-based websites.
If the email address is: joe@mydomain.com, most websites use:
<a href=”mailto:joe@mydomain.com”>joe@mydomain.com</a>
That line of basic HTML is easily harvested by spambots. Within a few weeks, the [...]

eBay’s new affiliate program, eBay Partner Network, is an excellent source of income for product-related blogs and websites. It takes some skill, however, to integrate eBay links and images into content and templates. The program offers several creatives that can be pasted into sidebar widgets. However, I found them to be slow-loading as well as [...]