Archive for the ‘Site Updates’ Category

Yet another round of tweaks and improvements

In the last week or so, I’ve been slowly tweaking this site, spending allot of time on the subtle, little details. The navigation menu has been streamlined, and I added 2 types of ‘asides’ Reading and Site Update. I may be adding more in the future, and have a feeling that this might emerge into [...]


DesignerLinks.net gets a second life

About 2 years ago, I launched DesignerLinks.net, which is a web directory dedicated to sites and articles about web design. I forst created it as my first attempt at creating anything with a MySQL database, as basic as it is. Basically users can submit links, and those need to be approved my an admin. Everything [...]


New WordPress Theme: Faulkner

After a not releasing any new theme for a long time now, I’m proud to present my newest addition to the collection: Faulkner. It is based on an amazing html template by the same name created by DemusDesign and posted at Open Designs. The theme is available for dowload from my WordPress Themes Page.


Russian mafia tactics now used by spammers

As all of you that have a blog must know, comment spam is a huge issue. Some blogs can get thousands(!!!) of comment spam a day. Akismet catches about %95 of the comment spam on this blog. All the other comments are held for moderation unless the comment author has a previously approved comment. I [...]


WPPA Updates

Since version 1.0 of WPPA was released back in June, I’ve got many emails and comments with feedback, support issues and feature recommendations.
First of all, I would like to apologize for not responding to all emails and comments regarding WPPA. I created WPPA in my spare time (which I don’t have much of) [...]


Akismet caught 100k spam on This ‘N That

Yes, since installed a few months ago akismet caught 102,564 spam comments on this blog. I understand that the spammers send so many, hoping that a few will find their way to the blog, and it probably happens on other blogs. I hold all first time comments in moderation, just because I’m too sick and [...]


WPPA 1.0

After promising myself for for the last year or so that i’d do it, It’s finally here.
WPPA (WP Photo Album) is a simple to use, and fully customizable plugin for managing photo albums within a WordPress powered site or blog. Version 1.0 of has been rewritten from scratch, sharing only the name with previous versions.
WPPA [...]


To much smart spam

Comment span used to be very obvious, full of links. Now there’s the “smart” spam which usually contains some simple generic comment like “nice site!” and one link in the comment author’s url to some spam site. even the best spam catches, such as Akismet, don’t catch those, and it’s really getting annoying. So, as [...]


New business site

About a week ago, I’ve launched the new site for my web services business, www.w3lift.com. I’ve finally worked out most of the quirks, and now I’m announcing it officially. My old site won’t be removed right now, because it has great search engine rankings. Hopefully the new site will eventually do even better.
I hope you [...]


Design Updated

After following Google analytics reports for a while, I got rid of the right sidebar, which was barely getting clicked, and optimized the navigation menu. While I was at it, I changed the color theme and fixed various things. I hope you like the changes


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