Simple websites While websites for different purposes and scope will have different processes, it generally follow the following steps: Initiation Plan Design Develop Test Deploy Initiation The very first step in the process is the project initiation stage. This is where you define the goals or objective of the site, who the target audiences are, […]
When developing Laravel applications on Linux-based systems, you may run into file permission issues with auto-generated files such as logs or cache files. I ran into this in the past often and my quick workaround was to manually change permissions and owner for the files with incorrect permissions. It would be something like following: chmod […]
In this article, I will share with you one of advanced search engine optimization techniques – adding structured data markup. One of our clients is a prominent real estate law firm and, even though they have a good ranking on search engines, they wanted to improve their visibility and how they appeared on search results. […]
Git deploy makes website deployments much easier than manually uploading files using FTP. Here I give a quick overview of what git deploy is and why web publishers should adopt this modern way of manage website deployments.
When you develop on WordPress, it’s always a good practice to use git to manage your code. Yet, I have seen many developers not using any code repository or developers who want to use code repository but are not sure how to set it up for local development with git. I wanted to share with […]
Whenever I loaded Google Map as an iframe, I always ran into the issue where the Google Map would intercept the mouse wheel scroll and I would have to click on somewhere else on the page to continue scrolling down. Check out below: I found a trick to disable mouse wheel scroll on Google Map […]
In a post blog I published on securing your site with SSL, I described why websites should and must use SSL (HTTPS). I was at a networking meeting last week and asked a group of business owners if they were using SSL for their website. I was quite surprised to see that almost one third […]
When developing mobile apps, location is one of core components that nearly all mobile apps are developed with. However, when it comes to building mobile apps with Drupal, working with location can be challenging. There are number of geo-related modules and discussions on enabling location by working with Views. But in our case, we decided not to […]
If you work with Drupal a lot and you’re on linux, you will come across times when you have to migrate/copy/restore your site from one location to another – sometimes on the same server, other times on a new server or your local machine. And when you move/copy/migrate your Drupal instance, you will notice that […]
Even if you are not a technical person and fairly new to SEO, you can do a quick SEO audit of your website with below checklist. This checklist is put together for business owners or managers who manage a website but has minimum to no prior experience with SEO. It is by no means a […]
