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Make Default Text in Form Field Disappear on Focus

By Larry Levenson On January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

It can be useful to prefill your input fields and textareas with little hints or reminders. For example if you have a general contact form and a textarea labeled “Message:”, you may want to prefill that textarea with something like “Your positive comments or constructive criticism here.”

You can do that just by including text [...]

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Understanding Hash Functions and Keeping Passwords Safe

By Larry Levenson On September 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Burak  Guzel, a fellow Arizonan, wrote a great tutorial on hash functions, and provides an easy-to-use PHP class to implement them. Read the full article at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/understanding-hash-functions-and-keeping-passwords-safe/

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A Huge Increase in Traffic and Exposure

By Larry Levenson On August 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Dear Larry,

I want to thank you for the many improvements you have made to our organization by the building of our website.  We have experienced a huge increase in traffic and exposure.  This has resulted in a significant increase in donations to our non-profit as PayPal is now available and information for mail-in [...]

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Do This! (Not That) For Awesome Emails

By Larry Levenson On July 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The AWeber “Do This, Not That” approach was introduced when we realized that email marketing could use the equivalent to the food industry’s Eat This, Not That book. We started off with some tips to improve your deliverability.

Your deliverability might be better [...]

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Do This, Not That, for Better Email Delivery

By Larry Levenson On July 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Do This! (Not That) For Better Email Delivery

Email marketing tactics and food have a few things in common. There’s the good, the bad, and the people that try to make the bad look good for you.

The food industry has resources like the Eat This, Not That book to guide you, but what [...]

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Add a Twitter Link to your WordPress Blog

By Larry Levenson On July 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If you’ve looked around at Twitter plugins that are available for WordPress, you probably had your eyes rolling around crazily in your head! Which one works? What plugin will best meet your needs? There are waaaaaayy too many Twitter plugins for WordPress.

Here’s favorite strategy of mine, cleverly disguised as a simple link:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=RT@MyTwitAcct [...]

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Adding a Favicon to Your Sub-site in WordPress Multisite

By Larry Levenson On June 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page.

Where does a visitor see the favicon?

These days, pretty much all  browsers provide favicon support and typically display a page’s favicon [...]

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Using iFrames with WordPress

By Larry Levenson On June 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

It’s a known issue that WordPress editor will remove the iFrame code as soon as the tab is changed from HTML to visual or vice versa.

function mytheme_tinymce_config( $init ) {
$valid_iframe = ‘iframe[id|class|title|style|align|frameborder|height|
longdesc|marginheight|marginwidth|
name|scrolling|src|width]‘;
if ( isset( $init['extended_valid_elements'] ) ) {
$init['extended_valid_elements'] .= ‘,’ . $valid_iframe;
} [...]

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Who safeguards the safe?

Why You Don’t Want to Use Online Tools to Manage Your Passwords

By Larry Levenson On May 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Online Scams Grow in the Wake of Osama Bin Laden’s Death

By Larry Levenson On May 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(Prescott, AZ- May 4, 2011) In the aftermath of the death of Osama Bin Laden this past weekend, Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to watch out for a slew of cyber-scams that have popped up in the past few days.

According to Kaspersky Labs, an Internet security firm, malicious Web sites and links [...]

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