Google’s program policies do not allow you to modify your Adsense code which artificially inflates ad performance or harms advertiser conversions. In most cases, you’ll want to copy paste the code exactly as you get from the generator. However, most sites today are going responsive and you’ll want to ensure that you use the correct size ads when your visitor is viewing your blog from a mobile device. Now, Google has modified the policy that allows you to modify the code for a responsive design. Responsive adsense code Check out the example code below courtesy Google’s help center article: Have…

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Recently the folks at Secunia contacted me regarding a vulnerability in my plugin Contextual Related Posts. Contextual Related Posts is a powerful plugin for WordPress that allows you to display a list of related posts on your website and in your feed. The plugin comes with a tonne of options and inbuilt caching that can possibly increase user retention. This vulnerability was on the settings page of the plugin and opened up the blog to a potential cross site request forgery (CSRF) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing proper validity checks to verify…

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If you’re a website designer, a WordPress theme developer or just a single site owner, you’ll most likely be using a whole set of CSS styles to generate that perfect design. But, before you’ve got that design ready to deploy across your site(s) or provide for users it is a good idea to check your styles for consistency and compatibility especially since we’re in a world with several different browsers on different operating systems on different devices. CSS Lint is an open source CSS code quality tool that performs static analysis of source code and flags patterns that might be…

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Google announced the release of their official tag managing tool. Titled Google Tag Manager, the tool lets you manage tags (such as tracking and marketing optimization tags) on your site. You can add and update AdWords, Google Analytics, Floodlight and non-Google tags from the Google Tag Manager user interface instead of editing site code. Tags are tiny bits of website code that let you measure traffic and visitor behavior, understand the impact of online advertising and social channels, use remarketing and audience targeting, test and improve your site, and more. Features include: Asynchronous tag loading—so your tags can fire faster…

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If you take a look at the top right of this site, you’ll notice a set of new icons that will give you quick access to our presence on the web. The six icons above are part of the Social Media Icon Set 1. The set contains PNG icons for 28 of the popular social media and other sites and are available in 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64 sizes. The ones on this site are the 48×48 version. We recently added our Google+ pages and Pinterest profiles. If you’re not on these two, we’re present on Facebook and Twitter,…

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Mobile apps are gold and programmers who want to develop another revenue stream would do well to turn their hand to developing them. If you know how to write and debug code and have experience with smartphones and tablets, you’ve got a leg up on others hoping to get into the app and mobile game development market. Where to get started Spend time thinking about what type of mobile application you’d like to make and what type of platform you plan to make it for. While you can make a breakout karaoke app for the iPhone and expand to iPad and Droid,…

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We all love fonts, don’t we? Stylish designs in which we can write our text. Ever thought about creating fonts of your own, with your designs? FontStruct will make it easy. FontShop.com recently launched its new web 2.0 service called FontStruct. FontStruct is a free font-building tool. FontStruct allows you to quickly construct fonts by using geometrical identities arranged in a grid base. FontStruct’s custom font making feature is powered by its inline graphic tool which helps adding geometrical figures, shapes etc. to lower and upper case of the font you are making. While drawing font figures, in FontStruct referred…

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I really liked Internet Explorer 7 and love Internet Explorer 8 (yes you Firefox lovers, I love FF as well ). But, being a web designer since mid 2000, I’ve had the opportunity to design several sites for several browsers and it has always been a pain to support them all. One really really really really painful browser is the infamous Internet Explorer 6. I have a strong feeling it is also one of the reason why IE has gained such a bad name among developers. According to StatCounter Global Stats, IE6 is still being used by about 25% of…

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Aren’t we all trying very hard to speed up our websites. You’ll find several tips to speed up your site, but one thing that really works is using a single CSS and a single JS. Whenever you have multiple CSS and JavaScript files, to download each file, your browser makes a separate request to the web server for each of these files. This entire process increases the time to load your file. Hence, by converting all the CSS files to a single file and all the JS files to a single file, you cut down the number of requests. This…

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Early this morning, I released Top 10 – A Page Counter and Popular Posts plugin for WordPress. I detailed my experience while designing this plugin. The major problem that I faced while working with this plugin was with WP Super Cache. WP Super Cache creates a static file of your post and displays this to the viewer. As a result, any PHP code that is present in your WordPress blog template is executed only once and the cached file is then served to your visitor. The initial version of Top 10 used PHP to record the page views as well…

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