Attackr.com » Developer Portal for web designers, developers and programmers http://www.attackr.com Come To Share, Come To Learn Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Top 10 Essential WordPress Plugins Quick Start Updated October 2010 http://www.attackr.com/the-top-10-essential-wordpress-plugins-for-getting-started-quick/ http://www.attackr.com/the-top-10-essential-wordpress-plugins-for-getting-started-quick/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 17:35:36 +0000 Gregory Milby http://www.attackr.com/?p=553 Headspace2
HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

Google Sitemap Generator
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. If you have any intention of using the webmaster tools – you should get this plugin so you can keep your sitemaps current & prevent any hold ups from your site not being current with current tags/etc…

Digg-Digg
This is another program that gives your blog visitor’s the opportunity to make it accessible to share a post in a network that can potentially drive more traffic to your site. The integrate “Digg Button” , “Reddit Me Button” , “Dzone Button” and “Yahoo Buzz Button” Into WordPress Content. Setup screen provided to let user choose where user want to display Digg , Reddit , Dzone and Yahoo Buzz buttons.

Awesomepixgallery
Let’s face it… there isn’t a perfect gallery out there. If it looks good, it’s slow – if it’s ugly is fast and no one wants it anyway. APG is a good compromise between all the features out there. APG does have a superior intergration interface (after you upload pics you have quite a bit of control immediately to place/shape the image).

Email-Users
A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other. Power users can email groups of users and even notify group of users of posts. The best part about this plugin is that you can specify mailing by group, so you only hit the publishers, subscribers/etc…

All in One SEO Pack

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

http://semperfiwebdesign.com/ I keep going back between this and the headspace2 plugin, both have their advantages. Even though I’m currently on headspace, this is still worth checking out.

Simpler-Contact-Page
Are you tired of all the “bells and whistles” of most WordPress contact forms? Are you exhausted from modifying CSS for hours just to get a contact plugin to display with your theme?
WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to, supposedly, less than a millisecond.
Google Analytic Plugin

  • Google Analyticator supports the following features:
  • Standard Google Analytics tracking support
  • Provides a widget that can be used to display visitor stat information on the front-end
  • External link tracking of all links on the page, including links not managed by WordPress
  • Download link tracking
  • Support for hiding Administrator visits without effecting Google Analytics’ site overlay feature
  • Support for any advanced tracking code Google provides
  • Easily installable only requiring the user knows their UID
  • Allows code to be placed in the footer to ensure faster load times
  • Complete control over options; disable any feature if needed

Socialble Bookmarking Plugin
Social bookmarking sites allow your blog visitors to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find on your website. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts – making each post as accessible as possible. I’m currently using Digg Digg, but it doesn’t hurt to stay familiar with updates to the social networking sites. Sometimes what one plugin misses – the other will catch.

*Edited on 01October 2010:

A must see plugin for WordPress:

After the Deadline, you will wonder how you’ve lived without it (seriously)… it’s not just a real-time spell checker, it checks language specific usage, grammer and language syntax (comparative dynamics).

Don’t believe me? Give it a try now!

http://www.afterthedeadline.com/download.slp?platform=WordPressAfter the Deadline

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]]> http://www.attackr.com/the-top-10-essential-wordpress-plugins-for-getting-started-quick/feed/ 2 Geo Caching For Fun & Profit (a.k.a How to find your arse with a funnel script) http://www.attackr.com/geo-caching-for-fun-profit-aka-how-to-find-your-arse-with-a-funnel-script/ http://www.attackr.com/geo-caching-for-fun-profit-aka-how-to-find-your-arse-with-a-funnel-script/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 13:18:22 +0000 Gregory Milby http://www.attackr.com/?p=540 Test Page...]]> searchwww.syrbot.com – when you visit the site it should say, “Thanks for visiting from ______ . This can be a critical component since you could ideally store the information from this visit in a database, recording exact zip code regions that your are targeting your marketing to.
If you have any intention of selling advertising, this can be good ammunition to show that you know who your audience is – where they’re located and their demographic profile.
To get an idea of how many variables are available about the person browsing your web page – look at this test page for syrbot.com: Test Page.
The first part of the test page is the geo caching element (finding out where you are, the apache var’s profile you as to which os you’re using, resolution and on and on. All critical info when you want to find out who you’re designing your site for. Knowing if your visitors are all using handheld devices would be a critical piece of knowledge – especially if you think you need to have a heavy flash site or graphic rich site. You could make all your customers happy by trimming the site down to streamlined graphics and mostly text arranged in a friendly format for a tiny pocket pc or iphone/palm browser.
It’s an easy argument to stress the importance of keeping up with who you are serving your pages to.
Please leave a comment if you know of any uses for geo caching/etc that would be useful to other people. A stronger point is to have ammunition when assisting a client with assessing their needs.  Here is a good link if you want to keep tabs on a good thread for how to get started with geo caching. The link is updated periodically – mostly questions, but some time saving advice if you can read between the lines.

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]]> http://www.attackr.com/geo-caching-for-fun-profit-aka-how-to-find-your-arse-with-a-funnel-script/feed/ 0 The Top 10 Best FREE Image Editors On The Web http://www.attackr.com/the-top-10-best-free-image-editors-on-the-web/ http://www.attackr.com/the-top-10-best-free-image-editors-on-the-web/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 15:42:45 +0000 Gregory Milby http://www.attackr.com/?p=510 There are a lot of free image editors out there if you know which virtual rock to look under.
1. Irfanview has actually been around so long now that it’s a staple in a lot of digital photographers arsenal. It can create html pages of thumbnails on the fly – great for proofs, or quickly delivering the family pictures to impatient relatives & friends. One benefit to Irfanviews longevity is that there a lot of plug-ins for it, and most of them are actually useful.

2. Photobie is one that I recently started using myself… mostly to see if all the plug-ins were as awesome as they seem (so far they are). For a professional, the provided templates may seem ‘beneath them’, but for the other 99% – these templates appear to be useful – at least to inspire creativity if nothing else.

3. Get Paint is one of those editors that you want when you do not want to spend 3 hours getting intimate with the tool set or the logic of how the program works…. it’s simple, direct and does a limited amount of tasks “very well”. A good tool to have on hand for quick photo/pic adjustments.

4. Yes, GIMP has to be on the list. If you haven’t heard of GIMP – I’m speechless. It’s intimidating interface rivals photoshop (yes, it really rivals photoshop for $1200-$1800 less [it's free]). The support, community, and innovative plug-in support is unmatched. If you want to invest time in a tool that will have infinite payoff’s – GIMP is it.

5. Picasa would have to be on the list too. I resisted the google app for many years, but finally caved in once I saw a friend importing over 50 pictures from her digital camera, tagging photos, and choosing/uploading pictures to her online album. It’s not the wicked graphic editor GIMP is, but it’s not meant to be. It’s a good solid vehicle for organizing your photos locally & on the web on a free website. There are permission levels that can be set on web albums, so only authorized people can view the specified albums.

6. VicMan’s Photo Editor is a straight forward editor, I wasn’t able to tell how extensive the support was, but the product worked well – and the twain (scanner/image device) worked much better than my purchased HyperSnap.

7. Photoscape is a great attempt at combining photoshop’ish editor with an old product I used to use by MGI that was basically a bin of effects – which were all good, but way overused by the ‘webmaster’ generation. Yes, there can be tasteful embossing, riveting reversed polarity, and bedazzling beveling without anything blinking…

8. i.Mage is a great paint replacement… it’ll never be a high speed editor, but it’s a good choice if you ever find your resourced peaked, and need to edit something to make a quick change (rotate/touch up a basic shape),

9. Online Image Editor messed with my sense of reality some, but this is a solid little tool if you are trapped like a rat at a remote location, and need to make a change or develop a quick graphic. Defiantly worth bookmarking/xmarking so you can get to the link when you’re on a jobsite.

10. The best for last… Splash Up is when you’re back is against the wall, you need photoshop, but you’re on your friends computer and they don’t have $1200-$1800 dollars to spend on the CS*<--(insert latest version number) master suite either. It's an online app which is key portability, but it also does many of the layering properties that only a high speed locally-installed application like GIMP or PS will handle. I found this application while writing How To Fix Your Sucky Website, and it has stayed bookmarked on my laptop sense.

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