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About a week ago, we "migrated" Yoast.com to Genesis 2.0, in the process we switched to their new HTML5 / Schema.org code and we slightly updated our design, making the header shorter and making improvements to our responsive design. This was a bit of work, but not even half as much as that sounds like …

Many web developers still use relative urls in their CMS. A relative url is a url that is not complete. Usually it's just the last part (the path) of a url, which means the domain name is left out. It's often used by web developers, because it comes in handy when moving content from a test or …

Recently, while working on the site for my father in law (in Dutch), I wanted to create an XML sitemap for the many publications on his site, that are downloadable PDF's. I regularly add PDF's to his site too, and since I'm a tad bit lazy I don't want to keep updating the XML sitemap. So …

At the end of March Twitter released a cool new feature called "Web Intents". I didn't really see the value of it till recently, but I've now started using it way more. When you have a Tweet button on your site, you're already using the Web Intents API, but you can do way more cool …

A while back I outlined my system for preventing comment spam. One of the core fundamentals in there is that I send people an email to verify their email address before their comment is published. For this to work well, I need to trust on my email to be received. As it turns out, email …

So it's friday, I've been coding all day and I thought I'd share some of the cool snippets I've come across and/or developed today. I've mostly been working with Custom Post Types and Taxonomies, so let me share some of that goodness. Let's geek out in a bit, but first let me show you why …

When you change domains, for instance using my moving WordPress to a new domain guide, you'll usually redirect your visitors with something looking like this: The only issue with this is that people might not notice that you've moved to a new domain, and thus might not update their links to you. As Matt Cutts …

For a small project, I had to create a smart mailto link to make my life a bit easier. I wanted the mailto link to hold not only a to and the subject (I'd figured that much out) but a multi-lined body too. Turns out that is pretty darn easy to do. So, for my …

Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get emails from readers asking for a better print style sheet. Until just a few …

As regular readers of this blog might know I have written quite some tools using the different API's of search engines, and always found them quite useful. When I was implementing my sitewide search function, one of the things that bothered me that it was a bit slow. I knew that I had seen some …