Security Basics for Web Developers

If you’re a web developer, there’s a good chance some of your code could be vulnerable. Unfortunately, if you haven’t had any security flaws, it is more than likely that you will run into some in the future. But most web developers don’t understand specific vulnerabilities in their code, generally SQL injections, as many do …

A fix for WordPress visual editor not showing – .htaccess!

Today had Leon and I banging our heads against a new WordPress installation that was displaying a blank screen in the visual editor.  We searched for possible causes and solutions, which included disabling possibly faulty plugins and verifying that all WordPress files were installed. In looking more closely at the browser console, what first appeared to …

Updating WP-Members WordPress Plugin for Twitter Bootstrap

At Inforest Communications, we work a lot with WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS), and also tend to use the Twitter Bootstrap framework as a starting point for our HTML/CSS layouts.  Recently we completed a project using the WP-Members plugin in order to provide a basic, password-protected area of a website.  As is the case …

Creating a Custom Template in a Drupal 7 Theme using Devel

Templates are one cool way of manipulating content in Drupal 7 as they allow you to alter or add additional HTML markup to your pages.  In this post we will be creating a template for a specific content type. In this example, it will be a new content type for products: Add a Content Type Go …

SuperCali 1.0.8 Released

After a long hiatus, i have released an update to the SuperCali PHP Event Calendar.  Version 1.0.8 is a maintenance release to fix errors from depreciated ereg and ereg_replace functions, as well as fix a security issue with the show_event.php page. I realized that SuperCali had unfortunately turned into “abandonware,” as I kept putting the …

Best practices for mobile friendly Web design

This post is meant to be as a guide to help designers design for mobile friendly sites. This is a general overview of some tips for resolution sizes, fonts, and navigation design and structure current in web design today. For example: With responsive design, it is important to keep in mind that the content will shift and …

SEO Tips: The Importance of a 301 Redirect

The 301 Redirect A 301 redirect is a command used to tell the search engines that a page has permanently moved, and that you want them to index the new page and drop the old one from their index. In layman’s terms if you create or redesign a new website if you change the name …