Sunday Web Design Roundup (10 Jan 2010)
Fridays are for extremely delayed sunday roundups due to the new year holiday. A reasonably random collection of posts to read up on while listening to your favourite music.
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Google XML Sitemaps - WordPress Plugin
Automatically make XML sitemaps for Google and other search engines
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"Here is a categorized list of online programming books available for free download. The books cover all major programming languages: Ada, Assembly, Basic, C, C#, C++, CGI, JavaScript, Perl, Delphi, Pascal, Haskell, Java, Lisp, PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, as well as some other languages, game programming, and software engineering."
- Website Security Check - Unmask Parasites
Check your site for hidden outgoing links
- Aviary - Tutorials
Useful online tutorials for aviary's online image editor... but also good skills for photoshop or whichever software you use.
- Seven Ways To Promote Your New Website
Some useful promotion tips for new sites.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Sunday Web Design Roundup (22 Dec 09)
This sunday's round up of interesting or useful posts about web design, wordpress, development and blogging from the web.
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WordPress › Faster Image Insert « WordPress Plugins
Insert multiple images in gallery & library mode. Because it turns out that inserting images in wordpress is REALLY slow and fiddly, especially if you want to post more than one.
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How to Create a Global Phenomenon for Less Than $10,000
Less is more, but how will -I- use it? From the always-interesting Tim Ferris.
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WordPress › Secure WordPress « WordPress Plugins
Little help to secure your WordPress installation: Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
And since it's christmas, a bonus link to the UK's Christmas Number One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkuOAY-S6OY
Have a great Christmas!
Sunday Web Design Roundup 11/22/2009
This Sunday's collection of random links is all related to setting up this blog, security and upgrades. This, plus a cold and a vacation, have meant that setting up the blog has taken a lot longer than 60 minutes. But once it's all assembled i'll put together a single post with a more streamlined system.
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Three tips to protect your WordPress installation
Securing your wordpress blog (part 2)
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3 Must Apply Security Tips for WordPress
3 (plus a bonus) tips to secure your WordPress install
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WordPress › WP-DB-Backup « WordPress Plugins
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables.
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WordPress › TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) « WordPress Plugins
Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code
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WordPress › WordPress Exploit Scanner « WordPress Plugins
This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
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WordPress › Limit Login Attempts « WordPress Plugins
Limit the number of login attempts possible both through normal login as well as using auth cookies.
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Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex
3 step process for upgrading wordpress to the latest version. (which my webhost doesn't let me install yet).
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.