How to Easily Manage Multiple WordPress Sites With One Database and One Code Base
Updated with security fixes We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and...
How to Grab a Screenshot of an Entire Web Page
Web designers and marketers often need full-size screenshots for before-and-after shots and also for portfolio pieces. Fortunately, there's many ways to create website screenshots. However, among...
Snipplr's Popularity Continues to Grow With Over 7,000 Registered Users
Snipplr, a social networking code repository created by Sitening, reached over 7,000 registered users today. Thanks to a highly acclaimed redesign, the past year has shown incredible growth for the...
How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!
Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don't know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set...
A Third (Smaller) Option for Embedding Flash Using JavaScript
In January (2007), I wrote a howto for embedding Flash using JavaScript. The examples I gave were for SWFObject and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) — the howto was for UFO. Now there's a third...
Avoiding the Digg Effect on Textpattern: How to Install Page Caching
Textpattern is a fast content management system (CMS). In fact, many tests have shown it to be much faster than its competitors, like WordPress. However, it's still a CMS, which means its content is...
Christmas Comes Early
Occasionally the stars align and our favorite tech companies grant wishes. Today was one of those days. Not only did Apple finally fix the Leopard dock (and by fix I mean make it not butt-ugly), but...
Flexiscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nirvanix Comparison
FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a...
Henshaw to Speak at Business Wire Forum
Sitening's Jon Henshaw will speak at the Business Wire Media Breakfast tomorrow. The forum, titled: "SEO, Blogging and Social Media: How do you reach your audience?" will discuss ways to enhance...
8 Essential Plugins for TextPattern
Textpattern is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that is powerful and easy to use. Its unique framework and workflow makes it easy for designers or software developers to...
Google Blocks SERP Tracker for Bad Behavior
First, the bad news.... If you're a frequent user of Sitening's SERP Tracker, you may have noticed a lack of results over the past week. It looks like the sleeping giant has finally noticed us. If...
Notes from OSCON 2007
Today was the first official day of the conference, though lots of folks came early for the tutorials on Monday and Tuesday. Everything I've attended has at least been mildly interesting, and in some...
Growl Pepper Plugin for Mint
In my last post I talked about the PHP Growl notification class I wrote. A few readers emailed and asked to see a larger, working example of how to use the code, so I've written a plugin for Shaun...
Send Growl Notifications Using PHP
Most websites have alert systems built in that can notify you whenever something goes wrong - a database crash or Apache error for example. Often times they'll send an email, save the problem to a log...
New Ruby Gem Paves Way For Future of Web Development
Today I was scanning my del.icio.us links and came across an amazing new gem for Ruby on Rails called Hobo. It promises to be an "open-source extension to Ruby on Rails which helps you build full...
