The default wordpress template leaves much to be desired in the way of user navigation. For instance, when you navigate from the index of a blog to an article, you have no easy way to get back to the homepage! To fix this, I decided to make my banner navigate to my homepage – a very easy mod that took ~5 minutes worth of template editing.
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How to make your wordpress banner navigate to your blogs homepage
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Finally – updates to iswapyou.com!!
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I completed a lot of updates that were in the works on iswapyou.com today. The site search was updated to make it easier to use – instead of having multiple options on it, it now searches and gives results for everything. I changed it on the advice of a few usability experts.
Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 2
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Whenever i create a website, i like to try my best to create a consistent look and feel for the entire site as much as possible. If you change UI elements such as navigation links when you go to an installed web application on your site you WILL confuse your users.
That said, it isn’t always practical to shoehorn your entire main site design in to an application without downgrading that applications functionality. With phpBB for example, if I wanted to use the Iswapyou main site design I would need to have two navigation bars (the main site nav and phpBB’s nav) on every phpBB page. This would take up too much space on the page and introduce more clutter than i wanted to, so I instead put my iswapyou main sites navigation links into phpBB’s navigation bar.
Googlejacking, two years later
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007I submitted a story to 2600 magazine in the summer of 2005 about a shady technique for getting pageviews called “Googlejacking”. The story was accepted, and I received a few issues of the mag, a shirt, and a bit of internet fame in the coming months.
For those of you who don’t have an IV needle in to the internet like I do, googlejacking is a technique using either a HTML 302 redirect or a META REFRESH to redirect from one page to another. When you performed the redirect from your site to a target site, YOUR REDIRECT LINK (for example, “http://www.iswapyou.com/redirect.php?www.cnn.com”) would be published by google, msn live search, Ask Jeeve’s, or any other search engines spiders instead of the destination link. If you find out that this is happening you can then steal all of the search engine traffic from your redirections destination (!), as described in the article.
Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 1
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007PhpBB is definitely one of my favorite open source projects ever. Because its open sourced with the GPL, a huge modding community has emerged full of people molding the forum software in to what they want it to be. Its pretty common for people to add on their own stuff, like spam filters or ways to post YouTube videos…
Cracking Youtube
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Update: As of 5/21/07, I think YouTube rigged it so it doesn�t update your video views, only your channel views. Thanks to reader Mario for pointing this out.
Mashable recently posted about a user named “SuperMoviesDownload” getting top results on YouTube consistently, and trying to charge $10,000 to allow people to get a top video on YouTube. Mashable says that “it was easy to enter the Most Viewed list on YouTube just by opening some tabs in Firefox and setting them to auto-refresh – no real skill required.” That’s what Mashable said. This is what they meant…
