After picking up NovaSite of the Month back in July, I honestly did not think the life of this site could get any more sweet. I was completely wrong. The O.N.Z.C.D.A staff completed their assessments of FlashByZ and awarded us with their Platinum award this being issued on the date of 10/10/10. Laudation: “An extremely [...]
NovaSite of the Month
Here is another reason one should check his spam filter prior to simply hitting empty. Flash by Z was selected as the NovaSite selection of the month back in July. We discovered this yesterday. This is a wonderful honor bestowed on a individual website each month. Many thanks go out to Denny Lancaster and Bernie [...]
WordPress as a content management system
Content Management Systems What does a content management system (CMS) do? It takes chunks of your content and pieces them together into a single HTML page. The other function of a CMS is to provide an easy way for the user to manage all those chunks of content. Managing content does not just mean allowing [...]
The WYSIWYG WordPress Editor
On the surface it seems like Visual mode is supposed to show your content as it’s going to look when you publish it; However, there are two key ways in which the WordPress Text Editor is not WYSIWYG and I think it’s important to get these out of the way early to avoid disappointment. The [...]
PHP Artwork -ImageFilledRectangle
Here is the fourth installment of PHP Artwork. Coming up we are going to build a green box using the ImageFilledRectangle function and then we are going to add a caption to it using the PHP built-in function called ImageString. So stay tuned. Just in case you missed the previous installments: We used the imageline [...]
PHP ARTWORK -imageline
PHP for art? Some say I am nuts but I think it is fun. Math makes the world go round and most art is built on it. Maybe you read our previous attempt at dynamically creating LARGE graphics from a tiny thumbnail using only PHP. No Photoshop and no filters. Kinda cool that a middleware [...]
Ideas for blog traffic
What worked yesterday still works today! The tools are bigger and better but so is the competition. You have a blog? Great! Is anybody reading it? Here are a few ideas to help drive traffic to your blog. 1. Make subscribing easy Though we don’t really push it here at FBZ, if you want more [...]
Dealing with your blogs content theft
Do you have a blog? Your are probably fighting off spam bots, evil hackers and the trackback comment spam but there is yet another problem. If you are like us and use a built-in feed or Feedburner by Google, you are probably dealing with content theft as well. RSS is a great way to distribute [...]
Spam, Spam Redux
Is your WordPress blog getting spammed? Well, us too. If any of these IPs pop-up in your comment moderation, you might as well go ahead and blacklist. Simply login to your wp-admin and look under settings. Click on the submenu item called “discussion.” At the bottom of this page you will see a box called [...]
Resources for New Webbies!
If you are a new developer, a visit to these sites are a must. The resources are broken down into categories for ease of use. Links were validated at the time of publishing this list. I do check them on a regular basis but if you find a broken link, please send me an email [...]
