July 8th, 2008

How to create custom favicons

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Favicons often go unnoticed by webmasters, but I like to think they’re an important part of any website, because they can be the symbol of your website and can leave a message to your audience about what they can expect from your business or blog. Favicons are just the small icons that appear in your browser’s address bar, just to the left of the web address itself.

The default favicon for any Joomla-built website is the Joomla logo, which can be really annoying to webmasters who want their business or website to reflect their own style and preferences. For example, if you already have a business logo, you’d rather see that as your favicon instead of the Joomla logo, right? It’s just more professional and gives your website an overall feel and design.

So let’s change the default favicon in Joomla to your own personal favicon! (more…)

February 5th, 2008

Got a blog? Win an iPod Touch!

So I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I'm now running that cocktail recipe site. Well, in order to get more traffic, I'm running a contest. If you have a blog or site and are willing to link to the site, or submit a recipe of your own, you can win an iPod Touch! Enter now!

February 1st, 2008

How to get the iPhone working on Roger's EDGE network

I'm quite happy to be the proud owner of a shiny new iPhone, which may or may not be unlocked and running on Roger's network in Canada.

Now, hypothetically, if someone else were to unlock said iPhone, and want to use it with their current data plan through Roger's, they will find that the standard EDGE settings simply don't work. The iPhone accepts them, and seems to connect, but no data is sent or received, it just hangs on web pages and mail connections.

So I did some searching around the web, and I found EDGE settings that work. Just go to Settings > General > Network > EDGE, and enter:

APN: internet.com
user: guest
pass: guest

And it works! Voila, iPhone data-rich goodness all over Canada!

January 11th, 2008

A sweet site for cocktail recipes

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I'm happy to announce that I'm taking over managements of shot-cocktail-recipe.com! Basically, it's one massive site created to serve thousands of cocktail recipes! But it's more than just a recipe guide. You can also see the most popular coolers and cocktails that other people are drinking. Another feature is that when you're looking at a particular recipe, you can see which other cocktails relate to the one you know, so you may get an idea for another drink!

Anyhow, I plan to make these enhancements:

  1. fix the rating feature, so you can vote on the drinks
  2. add a comments feature
  3. add a tell-a-friend feature
  4. add a 'submit your own drink' feature
  5. add a 'virtual bartender' feature
  6. host some contests of some sort

What do you think so far? Any other ideas?

December 19th, 2007

The cheapest SEO deal I've ever seen

OK, this is one seriously aggressive marketing campaign, perhaps the most aggressive that I've seen from any SEO company to date! Agilis marketing, a Virginia SEO Company is offering a 'Holiday' special, where you can get your website on the first age of Google for any search query, for only $99! Even though the query has to be at least three words in length, this is still pretty ambitious. I'd like to see them get the keyword "Toronto real estate" ranked for only that much :)!

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