Top 5 Website Statistic Systems

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Every webmaster wants to know how many hits his website is getting, whether it be daily, monthly or just sporadically; but with so many stat tools available, which one is the best to use? In this article, we’ll review some of the top systems available.

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WordPress Plugins that could help improve your posts and content

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WordPress is a powerful platform which goes down a treat with bloggers and publishers, and thanks to it's brilliant community, WordPress has something called plugins which can extend the functionality of a WordPress website. There are so many different plugins written by community members that perform unique tasks, whether it be to extend the functions of something that is already in place or to completely introduce a new function to a WordPress website. Here are a list of some WordPress plugins that could help improve your posts and content

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Multi Columned Layouts in CSS3

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It's been a while since my last CSS3 post/tutorial but that doesn't mean I haven't been following the development of CSS3. I have been looking at some of the newer features that have recently been implemented and one that's caught my eye is the multi column layout module. You can already guess what this module can do. Thats right it creates columns! Using the new column module it allows you to create columns in the form of a newspaper style column. News websites and blogs rejoice! Lets take a look at how we can create columns with the new module.

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Controlling www or no www in .htaccess

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When you go to punch in a URL in your browsers address bar, you may add the www. or be lazy and just put in thedomain.com, sometimes you can use both and sometimes one of the two redirects to the other version of the address. For example if you type in james-blogs.com in your URL address bar the www. suddenly is added on, why? This is because for SEO purposes it is important that you have one constant varitation while redirecting the both to chosen variation in my case I make the www. appear as I think it looks better with blog and domains with a dash in them. Read more to find out why this is important

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IE6 Browser Warning Message Using Conditional comments

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Recently I've been talking about Internet Explorer 6 and how support for it is slowly dropping, and soon we will see it disappear for good, but there are still people that use this browser, whether it by choice or that they are forced to, you have to keep in mind that people will view your site in Internet Explorer 6, but these days it is very hard to get modern CSS 2.1 websites to display 100% in Internet Explorer 6 without hacking your code to hell and back. If your a person which doesn't believe in having all these invalid hacks in your code but wants to get the message across saying "This website is not IE6 compatible" then you can use a small script using Conditional comments.

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