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Category Archives: Misc Web Design
Translate Your Error Messages in Your Zend Framework Controllers
I’ve been making a push to have more of my projects multi-lingual. However, one thing I kept forgetting about was those super-rare error messages that have to come from the Controller. For the most part, all of your errors should … Continue reading
Site profile: thebetterbachelor.com
Goal: to create a bachelor cookbook and sell it to other bachelors online. The price of the cookbook was to be very cheap so that it wasn’t too much of a risk. The book itself was supposed to be picture … Continue reading
Service profile: mketweeps
Goal: I came up with an idea that I wanted to find local people in our area and mention them using a twitter bot. Pretty simple. Two requirements were they either had to use the word milwaukee in their profile … Continue reading
Site profile: jemdiary.com
JEMDiary Goal: In 2001, having an online diary was only being piloted by a few people. Blogging was big, but considering it a ‘diary’ was not that popular. Only a few competitors existed: myopendiary and teendiary. I started my own … Continue reading
Site Profile: amazondiscount.me
The goal was to use links that Amazon provided themselves to showcase categories and percentage discounts with my affiliate tag. The thought was a clean interface would easily encourage people to click a discount of say 90% but send affiliate … Continue reading
Site Profile: name-tag.me
Note: I have shut down name-tag.me. These notes were taken before I pulled the plug. The goal was to make a “hello my name is” style name tag without the use of images but with a handwritten font. Trouble I … Continue reading
When you Create Your Account, Please log in.
I’ve always found it annoying when programmers create systems where you create your account and then you’re not logged in. Maybe I’m lazy? I decided to do a poll on a popular social networking site. The poll went like this: … Continue reading
Mailchimp Overview Presentation: Waukesha Area Internet Marketing Meetup
I will be presenting at the WAIMM Email Marketing Software meetup today. I plan to cover the basics of Mailchimp for comparison to other services like Constant Contact. Download the presentation powerpoint here: Mailchimp Overview Presentation
Why IP Authorization No Longer Works on Web Apps
The last time someone brought up authorizing certain actions by IP address – or I should say, limiting the amount of actions that can happen by one IP address. I brushed that off without a second thought. It didn’t occur … Continue reading
A faster alternative to image beacons with 1×1 gif
So it seems like a very common solution for tracking hit rates is the transparent 1×1 pixel gif. Load this and parse your access logs: requests logged. The problem I have with this is two fold: a) it sends a … Continue reading