Emoji have taken the world by storm in recent years, so it’s no surprise to see Emoji make an appearance in one of the cornerstones of the Internet: domain names. In this blog post, we’ll cover some Emoji domain history, information on buying Emoji domains, and explain why you might want to own one.
How To Upload a Filtered Photo to Your WordPress Site on iOS
So you took an awesome photo with your phone, and want to upload it directly to your WordPress site? Maybe even add one of those cool hipsterish filters to make it look even awesome-r? Here’s how:
New Responsive Design for Leland.me
So, I decided if I’m going to be talking about responsive web design related topics, my own personal site probably shouldn’t be using a three-year old, unresponsive design. I just finished coding it last night. I also have a brand spanking new newsletter where I’ll pretty much just update you on new blog posts. See […]
How To Move WordPress To A New Domain
So late last night, I moved leland.info over to leland.me. I bought the leland.me name a while ago with the intention of “rebranding” leland.info with it, and haven’t gotten around to it until now. This will be a quick post on how to properly migrate a WordPress site to a new URL, including the crucial […]
The SEO Strategy Spectrum, Finding a Middle Ground
I see a lot of misinformation out there about SEO, and it’s never going to end. When ignorant SEO-clueless people see an ad for “get #1 for any keyword!” they’re going to pay attention, and they’ll probably pay up for some fraudulent ranking service. (Hint: the only people who can actually “guarantee” you a top […]
Why .CO Is Destined For Failure
.CO is the country code for Colombia, and registration was just opened up to the general public yesterday. Yes, there have already been some big sales like e.co for $81,000, Twitter acquiring t.co, and Overstock buying o.co for $350,000. Who Is Buying Them As far as the biggest sales go, it appears large corporations are […]
New Design by James McDonald
Just like Theme Lab, this site is now sporting a brand new design by James McDonald. For posterity, here’s a screenshot of the old design: The Change While I did get a lot of compliments on the old design, I wanted to go in a more “professional” direction with the site. I’d love to know […]
Your Own Personal Online Todo List
Some of you asked how I set up my todo list after I posted a screenshot of it a few days ago. I set it up from a freely available script I found on TutorialZine.com, from a tutorial called AJAX-ed Todo List With PHP, MySQL & jQuery. In the following screencast tutorial, I’ll show you […]
Twitter Reciprocal Follow Nonsense
This whole “I follow you, you follow me” mentality on Twitter has bothered me for a while. Basically, it goes like this: if someone follows you on Twitter, it’s “rude” not to follow them back. This is nonsense. Why? Here are a few reasons: Interest Factor – You should follow someone on Twitter because you’re […]