Posts in the "Web" Category

How to change Google Apps calendar and email notification time

Google Apps has a great built in tool that will notify you of any calendar meetings ten minutes ahead of time. There are two notifications, both tied to calendar, that alert you of upcoming meetings. The first works when you have calendar open in a web browser, it automatically refocuses your browser onto calendar with […]

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How to create a bookmark this page link or button in html

Sometimes you want to make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page or addit to their favorites. Most people know they can do this with the toolbars and menu built right into their browser but it doesn’t hurt to have a link or tool like this to make it even easier. When people […]

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How to show an image or add on the front page of a WordPress site using PHP

I do a lot of WordPress websites and one thing that comes up quite a bit is the need to show an image or add or other element only on a specific page like the front page. In order to do this I usually edit the theme files using PHP code with an “if” statement […]

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How to password protect a folder or file with Godaddy

Today I was helping a friend update his website and one of the things he needed was a new password for a directory that was protected. At first I couldn’t remember if the login password system was something custom so I called Godaddy to find out. Turns out it’s a built in feature that’s easy […]

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How to see all of your friends’ news feeds on Facebook

Recently Facebook updated the way information is shared between friends. Some of us have hundreds, even thousands of friends and rather than letting people get overwhelmed with updates from friends on the feed page, Facebook has opted to begin showing only relevant news items. Relevance is determined on on the friends’ pages you visit regularly […]

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How to remove the comments field on WordPress posts and pages

WordPress does a great job facilitating interaction and feedback on blogs and websites. Most themes have built in comment fields for both posts and pages. If your theme doesn’t, here’s a quick tutorial on how to add them yourself. But just because you can enable comments doesn’t mean that you should. Sometimes disabling comments and […]

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How to create an excerpt in WordPress 3.1

WordPress 3.1 saw a few changes in the way that certain menus and options are displayed in posts and pages. Former versions of WordPress simply included an excerpt field below the title and body areas of posts and pages by default but in 3.1 it disappeared! Excerpts aren’t something everyone needs or uses but for […]

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