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Reading an XML Sitemap using PHP
In this short tutorial I will cover reading a Google/XML Sitemap and grabbing hold of each URL to use as you wish. This is amazingly easy to do: Firstly we need to pass in the Sitemap URL. In the example we’re going to use GET since this is the most useful in my opinion. <?php $sitemap = $_GET['sitemap']; // [...]
Continue reading...Validating a website in PHP
23. August 2008
I found this pretty hard to begin with I was uncertain of how to check whether a website was online without writing a complicated string of Regular Express and even then this didn’t check if the site was active at that point in time. The solution was supprisingly simple: We can use the PHP Function “fsockopen” [...]
Continue reading...jQuery Lightbox on Wordpress - Simple install guide
20. August 2008
I was originally using a prototype based version, which was fine until I started learning jQuery, then I had to search for an alternative. Whilst this was easy to find, there were no instructions for the novice on how to put this into Wordpress easily. In this tutorial I’m using Wordpress 2.6.1 (the latest version). You [...]
Continue reading...Find Web Sites on the same Web Server
16. August 2008
New tool today, been in the pipeline for a while, it uses the Live Search SOAP API, PHP & jQuery. http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/tools/web-server-check/ Feedback welcomed Bookmark
Continue reading...Sitemap to W3C Tool
26. February 2008
Howdy all, I’ve just finished a nice little tool which will allow you to check each page of your website against W3C. http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/tools/seo No Catch, just enter the the URL of your sitemap and save hours of work. If you care about Validation in the first place Feedback welcome - night Bookmark
Continue reading...Click Arbitrage explained…
28. October 2007
Click Arbitrage is a method of making money online firstly by looking for cheap traffic from either Google Adwords or another Pay-Per-Click provider, once found then sending the traffic to pages loaded with Contextual adverts, the user will then click another Advert, usually making the owner more money than it cost to get them there in the [...]
Continue reading...SEO and Domain Ownership
28. October 2007
So a while back on the v7n SEO Blog it was revealed that Google is now looking at over 200 signs when sorting its organic search results which is somewhat concerning. What are they.. (The orginal article: Here ) so we all know the basics like backlinks, good HTML and all that Bull Shit. But.. and [...]
Continue reading...9 Programming Rules
28. October 2007
1. KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid, this also applies to designing programs, why do these things need to be so complicated? 2. ID Division, at the top of every page/program put an ID Division so we know what this section does and who the author is. 3. Comment on each section of code so we understand [...]
Continue reading...Starting Points
28. October 2007
Here you will find 10 points you should try and follow when starting out in website design. As promised! 1. Don’t go mad! Keep your idea’s down to earth as trying to reinvent the wheel on your first website will leave you furstrated and exhausted. Have a browse around and get a feel for what you [...]
Continue reading...Bandwidth explained…
28. October 2007
Bandwidth: Is a measure of the amount of data transmission made between two systems. Can be problematic to webmasters with highly graphiced websites. As surfers have a limited download speed, this has improved as broadband has become more widely available. It is difficult to find the right optimization level against download time. Bookmark
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23. August 2008
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