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On April 27, 2008, I set up Blogger.net.au and wrote about the purpose of the site on InterNoetics (formerly martinetics.com). The post was oriented around turnkey-style websites and the ‘myth’ that they made money. It’s funny reading back on what I wrote back then because – although my opinion hasn’t changed in any drastic way [...]
Google charts are awesome. I use them on about a dozen sites to visually represent all kinds of data. If you don’t know what Google Charts are, it’s worth checking out the massive resources available on the Google Chart Tools website. Google describes their service as “… [the] perfect way to visualize data on your [...]
WordPress.com uses a nifty little tool to take screenshots of Commercial Themes. If you right click on a few of the screenshots on that page you’ll see that they have consistent URL form. The following shortcode makes use of the functionality on WordPress.com by rendering a screenshot of any webpage in your blog post. I [...]
Did my headline get your attention? The title should have rendered the city you’re in (or one you’re near) based on your geographic location. I’ve tested geographic based headlines on three sites for the last month with click-through-rates increasing by much as 600% – although it averaged about 300% on most days. That’s a massive [...]
This PHP function will search for a particular string of text in a WordPress post and replace it with alternative text of any kind. If you’re just getting into the affiliate business, this is a great way of instantly monetising your blog via specific keywords. If you’ve ever written about Thesis, you could, via the [...]
Michael Harvey of New York, USA, asks: “I’ve set up private WordPress pages that I’m only giving to friends and family. However, when people use the WordPress search function, these private pages appear in search results. Do you know a fix?” I use the same functionality on my own site(s). I have countless private pages [...]
One of the websites I’m working on at the moment is heavily orientated around video. In company with at least one other gentleman, we’ll be posting tutorials, reviews and classroom-style lectures for individuals undertaking flight training. When you’re investing so much into a website with such a heavy focus on video, it’s important to use [...]
In the process of writing up a post about a bunch of WordPress plugins that I use and recommend, I decided to write about the Sharebar plugin in isolation of the others simply because (apart from the fact that it’s awesome), by default, it excludes some important social networks that deserve inclusion. What is sharebar? [...]
Talk Like a Pirate Day originated on June 6, 1995 when John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregan, started talking – for no particular reason – in pirate slang. They liked it. June 6 is the anniversary of World War II’s D-Day, so the pair settled on September 19 as a global celebration of [...]
Continuing with the ongoing series of posts on shortcode, here’s some examples of how you can fancy up your posts – or use styled elements in a post to emulate a ‘Squeeze Page’. A Squeeze Page is one of those long pages full of fancy images, videos and testimonials that are designed to achieve one [...]
A few weeks ago I posted some code that would retrieve an aviation metar from the NOAA website and display it within your WordPress blog post or page. As expected, it was followed with a few emails asking how we could output a TAF (or Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) instead. Using the same recycled code, it’s [...]
Marty has been involved with online application development for a number of years and has worked with large scale applications both as a coder and project manager. He is currently actively contributing to 7 blogs and maintains over 300 websites. 
Ken has been developing software solutions and managing IT projects for over 20 years. Ken has a computer science degree and, although his focus was previously on Windows based software, his focus is now on blogging and other online projects.
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