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Quotable Books

I recently built a fun little application for BookAdvice.net. It is called Quotable Books.

Quotable Books

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Google Adds Ranking Data to Referrer String

Google has been rolling out changes to the way their referrer strings are structured. They are moving from a simple URL that shows the search query to a more complex one with some extra information that may be valuable. Starting this week, you may…

Mozilla Announces Firefox For iPhone

Mozilla has announced that Firefox will be coming to the iPhone soon, this summer if there are no major delays. The browser, dubbed “iFox” internally, is a fairly full-featured port of Firefox with a full implementation of the Gecko rendering engine and the TraceMonkey…

Defending Your Blog’s Copyright

ProBlogger has a new guest post up, by Gary from DevOracles.com, on how to stop scrapers from profiting from your work. The article explains how to write Cease and Decist letters and DMCA takedown notices, and who to send them to. The post recommends…

Stop the U.S. Orphan Works Act

A bill called the “Orphan Works Act” is pending in Congress. If approved, the bill would adversely affect U.S. copyright law, and cause major problems for individuals. Currently, in the United States, a creative work such as a blog post, web design, podcast, video,…

Reminder: Update Your Copyright Notice

It’s 2009 now, which means it’s time to update an important part of your website that is easy to overlook: The copyright notice in your footer. If you haven’t already updated the line of text, which should read something along the lines of “©2009…

Best of 2008

Happy new year! It’s 2009 now, and we’re heading into what will hopefully be another great year of Webmaster-Source. 2008 was a big year for Webmaster-Source. The site grew significantly, started making some decent money, and I released two WordPress plugins and started using…

PC Magazine to Stop Being Printed

The final edition of PC Magazine, the 25-year-running tech magazine, will be released in January of 2009. The magazine is the originator of comparative software and hardware reviews, and perhaps the first magazine about Personal Computers. While the magazine is going away, the website,…

Flash Development is Hard

It’s no secret that I’m not a fan on full-Flash websites. They’re not very usable, search engines don’t really like them, and permalinks are near impossible. (There are a select few Flash sites that are just so cool that I can’t help but liking…

H1 or H2? How to Handle Headers?

In (X)HTML, there are several levels of headings. You have h1, h2, h3, h4, and so on. The proper way to use them is in a structural manner, a post title having a lower number (e.g. h1) than subheaders in a posts content, which…