There are a number of new image formats that have been developed in recent years to improve the performance and quality of images on websites.... March 2023
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Apache, Nginx, PHP, JavaScript and Meta redirects There are two main redirect options 301 for a permanent redirect. Use this when the redirect is pointing... October 2022
Tools to help identify and engage spammers. I’m often asked what tools are best to use to identify spammers, there are plenty of free tools... October 2022
Quick guide for setting-up a CDN on Rackspace. CDN Set-up Log into your Rackspace MyCloud account. Click into Storage > CDN then “Create Service”. In... May 2022
The image file formats that are most commonly used on the web are listed below. Classic Image Formats These are the classic image formats universally... April 2022
This post documents the process of setting up a reverse proxy to load one (Origin) website in the subdirectory of another. During this process the... August 2021
Over the course of 2021 eBay will be incrementally changing how it works with sellers. Changes include updates to the fee structure, how fees are... June 2021
A run down of the most popular web browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Opera as well some alternate options if you'd like something different.... May 2021
There are plenty of website speed tests out there, some are better than others. Pingdom is one of these tools, this post explains how to... February 2020
This is a simple EU cookie notification pop-up for legacy websites. All that’s required is jQuery. Add the following HTML, jQuery script and apply some... November 2019
This walk through will allow you to set-up a website to automatically deploy on a remote server whenever updates are pushed to the GitHub repository.... November 2019
Choosing the right ecommerce platform is an important decision for any business looking to sell their products online. The three options below are tried-and-tested ecommerce... October 2019
Jekyll uses the Liquid templating language to process templates. This post provides a basic example to show the five latest blog posts and highlight the... October 2019
As a PHP developers most of my time is spent working with Linux servers. When Microsoft introduced the Linux Sub-system for Windows I jumped at... January 2019
Don’t use images to display text on your website. It may look nicer, oftentimes the same effect can be generated using style sheets while making... August 2018
To start XAMPP run the following and the command will return a list of running services: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start To stop XAMPP run the command... June 2018
**One of my favourite aspects of Windows 10 has been the Linux subsystem for Windows. ** I’ve been using it since launch partly because it... January 2018
Quick guide to creating simple plain text (.txt) files on Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS and Linux. Text files are useful for sending code or short... April 2017
Quick guide to creating simple plain text (.txt) files on Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS and Linux. Text files are useful for sending code or short... April 2017
Quick guide to creating simple plain text (.txt) files on Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS and Linux. Text files are useful for sending code or short... April 2017
I can get access to better internet in rural Mid Ulster (a townland called Tyanee just across the River Bann from the town of Portglenone) than on the... March 2016
Expires headers let the browser know whether to server a cached version of the page. This can simultaneously help to reduce server load and increase... February 2016
Putting this together because I always end up checking online for the correct bash commands for Linux. These commands rely on your knowing for sure... February 2016
If you’re having issues connecting to a server via FTPS in phpStorm I found that the magic combination for PHP Storm and FTP-SSL connections is…... November 2015
My colleague Steven Cotterill has outlined just how useful a messenger app can be in a development environment. At the beginning of the year we... September 2015
Some useful copy-and-paste lines for the .gitattributes file when using Beanstalk Git. Image and other binary files Upload and store images as binary files, rather... May 2015
Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python LAMP is an acronym denoting one of the most common software stacks for many of the web’s most popular applications. However,... December 2014
Composer is an application-level dependency manager for the PHP programming language that provides a standard format for managing dependencies of PHP software and required libraries.... December 2014
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Hello I have experience using a wide variety of web development languages including HTML+CSS, PHP+MySQL and JavaScript. I have also worked with popular content management... November 2012
