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For the past few months (or more) I’ve been building something I’d like to call “an ideal homepage“. Very hard task to do, but I’m sure I will come close to the idea with the project, sooner or later…
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Moving a project from one domain to another is something you should avoid. Unless it is really necessary – just don’t do it :)

But, maybe you sold a domain and want to transfer a project to another domain name. Then you have a lot of things to do.
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It’s been now more then a year that my wife and I released a new parenthooding forum in Croatia – www.superbaby.org.

Since then, forum became one of the most popular chat&help machines in Croatia for everybody who is and will become a parent.

At this point of time we are counting more then 1.600 registered members, more then 240.000 posts and a really big number of new and returning daily visitors.
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Did you noticed a new AdSense feature? Well, now you can park your domains on Google and have them paid within AdSense paycheck.

I’ll try this with one or two domains, just to see how it’ll go, and I get better results then with Parked.com I’ll probably redirect all of my domains.
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could see what data exactly do you submit with your HTML form with Post method? Well, you can and it’s easy with Paros Proxy tool !

As the name says, to simplify, this utility acts as your local web proxy. So, to set it up (after the installation) you configure your web browser’s proxy setting to something like http://localhost:xxxx (where “xxxx” is a Paros Proxy specific port). By doing that all traffic you make through your web browser goes through this utility. Read more >>

Don’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability, by Steve Krug

This is a full title of this great great great book I read !

The title really says everything about the book. It is very easy to read, once you start reading it, you can’t stop till you get to the last page.
It is also illustrated with real life examples. Read more >>

It’s really hard for me to read unformatted e-mails, and it’s getting annoying when I recieve some important information and loose my eyes on scanning bunch of text in search for text I need to read.

I was also one of those programmers who didn’t “found time” to format those notification e-mails sent to webshop customers, but after some time I realized what I was missing:

• attractive looking e-mail newsletters to attrack customers to buy more
• simplifying user registration with easy to read next registration process step
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I have just released another small project of my own. It has a rather simple idea – to collect recipes of sandwiches.

Project is located at www.sendvic.com (sendvič = eng. sandwich) so as you can see I’m using a generic domain name.

This is my first mini social website and I’m using something new to me – Google FriendConnect service. For now, I just put some user gadgets on a site, and we’ll see how it’ll work when/if I get some visitors to join my community.

Recently I was alarmed that one of my late projects is under attack. It was one of my first websites I created using ASP+MS SQL.

Looking at .LOG files and database it was clear that the attack was done using SQL injection method, which is of course a shame on my work but it somehow slips through my fingers at certain lines of code. We all live and learn… There is a saying – who works, makes mistakes.

Anyhow, I was facing a problem that has to be sold, and finaly – I made it… Read more >>

If you ever wonder how to create those cool links to your pages, here’s a short tutorial…

Those “old” links like http://www.example.com/index.php?p=1&s=2&t=ok are history, the new look-and-feel is http://www.example.com/news/technology/.

There are number of advanteges with using this friendly URLs:

• visitors can easily see where is their current location within your website
• easy to remember direct links to a certain page on your website
• Google “reads” your website more accurate and gives a better search results, so this is also a very good SEO technique (a must-have one actually)

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