If you have not visited Google’s Webmaster Central website you should, they have a bunch of tools to help websites and web developers. Today on the Google Webmaster Central Blog there was an excellent article on how to make your 404 pages more useful.
Instead of just displaying the standard 404 message, Google gives you some [...]
During the re-launch of BlueCrestStudios we moved to a Windows server. It was part of our initiative to take things back to our roots, and make things simpler. Because we run a fair amount of PHP applications we went with MySQL as our database. MySQL comes with a great little application called "mysqldump" which simply [...]
HTTP error pages are more important than some may think. If you have a visitor or a customer to your site and they reach an error, you want to display a message and give them alternatives to find the content they are looking for. Most graphical control panels from hosting companies give you the option [...]
Previously, in Part 1 of How to Make a Password Strength Meter Like Google I went over the basics on how to get a password strength meter up and running on your site. I got a lot of feedback on this article, mostly commenting on needing a better algorithm to determine if a password is [...]
Password strength meters are becoming more and more popular amongst web services. Google uses one when creating a Google account. One can argue how useful these meters really are, but non-the-less they are fairly cool for users. So how does one go about making one of these meters? Well it’s fairly straight forward.
The basic break [...]
