For those who run facebook fan pages you will likely know about fan gating and the importance of adding your own content to your facebook fanpage. This used to be done with the facebook static fbml app but that’s really the old way, looking forward the best way is to make its own specific app. [...]
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Hosting facebook Apps/Applications/iFrame Pages on 1and1 (SSL)
Also posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, PHP, Social Media, Web Technology Tagged 1and1, facebook, facebook apps, fan gating, fan page, ssl
Facebook Fan Page Branding Template – Illustrator
Facebook Fan Page Branding Template – Creating a facebook fanpage branding with Adobe Illustrator As I have been dabbling with facebook fan pages I thought I would share a few of the take-away’s, in this case purely to do with the branding of your facebook page, increasingly an important outward factor in all web developments [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Projects, Social Media Tagged adobe, branding, facebook, fan page, illustrator
Remove unwanted eBay strings from A2P [Auction2post] posts with Automated Editor
Free rules file with this post! Do you use Auction2Post [A2P]? If you don’t its a wordpress plugin which automatically implants listings from ebay as wordpress posts, including affiliate links through the ebay partner network from which you earn a commission. Its quite useful. Read my post about it here. Anyhow if you don’t use the [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, PHP, Projects, Search Engine Optimisation, Snippets, Software, Wordpress Tagged Auction2Post, Automated Editor
Facebook Like button not working or showing 0 likes
Got a facebook like button not working showing zero? Do you wan’t to add a facebook like button to your page that points to a facebook page (fanpage) rather than the page the likebutton is actually on? It is possible but you may have come across this facebook bug that I did. Scenario’s are either: [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Snippets, Social Media Tagged facebook, fan page
Automated Editor Released!
A nice small chunk of a project, Automated Editor is a wordpress plugin which allows you to automate some of the post editing process. Written to be lightweight and flexible it can do a lot with a little input. The plugin replaces a previous script/small app I had previously commissioned to offer automatic string replacement/removal [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Business, PHP, Projects, Social Media, Web Technology, Wordpress Tagged Automated Editor, Small Nugget Projects
Namestation starts charging – Namestation.com review/alternatives
I remember it as MakeWords.com, a useful site which would usually suck hours of my life away showing me domain names I didn’t originally know I wanted/needed. It would usually come up with the results though, providing me with a decent domain for a new project or site. So when I wanted to dial in [...]
Also posted in Business, Web Technology
Hackers wrecking your shared host account? Check your Website Portfolio Integrity
10 days of perpetual issues with hackers. 10 DAYS. 100+ sites bombed randomly between every 5 minutes and 5 hours and that’s only after proper detection, who knows how far it had gone before. But from the relentless irritation some positives developed, if you are in the (precarious) position of hosting LOTS of websites on [...]
Also posted in ASP.Net, C#, Ideas, PHP, Projects, Search Engine Optimisation, Software, Technology, Web Technology, Wordpress
ODesk and outsourcing
Back to it again, the portfolio needs a bit of a push so I am adding a few new sites into the mix this time in niche’s discovered with a new formula pulling from several new data sets. Ah the wonders of purchasable and scrapeable data online / via api – the formula was refined [...]
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