Website and Blog Tricks

Assign Separate Domain Names to Multiple Sites on Amazon EC2 Running Bitnami

Brian Shim — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:35:13 +0000

Here is the scenario: I used Bitnami to create a WordPress install on a free Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) micro instance (see this article if you want to know how to do that), and I wanted to point my URL at the resulting site. Furthermore, I wanted the ability to host more than one

How to Minimize and Deal with Mean Comments on Your Blog

Brian Shim — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:39:09 +0000

Blogging can be a very personal experience. You’re baring your soul before the world. You are vulnerable. One of the worst things is to put yourself out there and receive critical or even mean or hateful comments. I’ve been blogging for some years and overwhelmingly, the response has been amazingly positive. But, one bad or

Why Sticky Menus are the Wave of the Future

Brian Shim — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:22:38 +0000

When you are logged into WordPress, there is a “permanent” grey menu bar at the top of the screen that stays at the top of the browser window no matter how much you scroll down. In the left corner there is a button that allows you to quickly log into the admin area or return

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Make Any WordPress Theme Responsive (Mobile-Friendly)

Brian Shim — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:11:55 +0000

Here is the scenario: You’ve searched high and low and found the perfect WordPress theme for yourself or your client. But, there’s one big problem: it’s not mobile-friendly. With mobile web traffic soon expected to exceed desktop web traffic, being mobile-friendly is critical. I recently had to go through the exercise of converting a non

Why Your Blog’s Copyright Notice Might Be Totally Wrong

Brian Shim — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:13:52 +0000

We all want to protect the content that we create for our blogs and websites, right? Wouldn’t it be terrible if someone copied your site’s content and you later found out that your copyright notice was wrong and offered you no legal protection? Well, I thought I was being diligent by slapping the standard copyright

Five Ways to Massively Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Brian Shim — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:49:41 +0000

After living with my slow-loading WordPress sites for a while, I finally decided to hunker down and do something about it. I had heard about a tool called Pingdom which creates waterfall charts so you can see exactly what is happening when your site is loading. There are other similar services, but this one is

Create Cheap, Lightweight Mobile Websites for Small Businesses

Brian Shim — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:32:38 +0000

The current craze in mobile web development is undoubtedly responsive design, i.e., making websites that adapt dynamically to the size of the browser window using CSS liquid layouts and media queries rather than looking at what hardware device is being used. I am a big fan of responsive website design, but consider the case where

Facebook Page vs. Group: Which is Right for Your Organization in 2013?

Brian Shim — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:46:13 +0000

Much has been written about the differences between Facebook Pages and Groups. When I needed to decide which to use for a project, I looked online and found lots of sites listing the features of each, yet I felt they missed the essence of which to use in actual practice. Furthermore, much of the info

Set Up Your Domain and Hosting on Go Daddy

Brian Shim — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:49:53 +0000

Okay, you’ve purchased your brand new domain name and hosting on Go Daddy. Now you need to make your domain point to your website. This simple and commonplace task is surprisingly unintuitive in the Go Daddy user interface. Here, I’ll show you how to do it step by step. Log into the Go Daddy website.

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Dynamically Resize an iFrame Using jQuery

Brian Shim — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:56:48 +0000

I was given the task to fix a website bug of the following nature: There is an iframe containing a “submit” button. When the Submit button is pressed, new content is loaded into the iframe and the size of the iframe gets much larger. Unfortunately, the containing window does not get larger and ugly scroll

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