• Jan.
  • 30.
  • 2009

RSS or Screen Scrape?

Why would you need to ever screen scrape content from your own website? Why not just use RSS feeds? If you want to use your own RSS feeds from your own content to display it somewhere else on your site you can do that! But what if there isn’t an RSS feed from the section in question ? What can …
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  • Jan.
  • 29.
  • 2009

Is mccormicky.com Too Plain?

Please leave a comment if you think mccormicky.com ok as is or too damn plain. Reasons for Remaining Plain: I want people to read my articles without being too distracted so I have kept a “plain” look for a long time ( I prefer to think of it as subtly simple rather than just plain plain). I generally dislike clutter. …
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  • Jan.
  • 23.
  • 2009

Big Ugly Buttons

I was attempting to create an eye catching yet subtle button for a site. It was getting boring. To amuse myself, I made some honking large ugly buttons. I’m including the in case you love big ugly buttons enough to want these. Right click to save or you’ll get a page of strange and cryptic characters. I guess I should …
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  • Jan.
  • 15.
  • 2009

HTTPS for the Checkout Page in WordPress Ecommerce

Using this plugin Admin-SSL. Don’t be surprised if you can’t find this plugin’s config page. It gets installed in the Plugins menu after you activate it. You can switch it to be in the Settings menu but after you find it! Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know but whatever this plugin works! Securing the Checkout Page Go to http://yoursite.com/your wordpress folder/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=admin-ssl-config. …
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