Tips, tricks & tools

Export a favicon from Photoshop

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on Jan 29th, 2010

1. Download the ICO (Windows Icon) plugin, and extract it to your \Plug-Ins\File Formats directory.
2. Design your 16×16 icon (or resize something larger), and select “save as”.
3. Select the ICO format, and save your file as favicon.ico.
4. Upload your new favicon.ico to the root directory of your website.
5. Add this code inside the <head></head> section of your pages:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" />

Not only is this a nicer method than using those online favicon creators, but it also works for making favicons with transparent backgrounds.

Disable Wordpress feeds

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on Dec 19th, 2009

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Need to disable the Wordpress RSS feed? It’s easy. Just paste this into your wp-content/themes/*theme-name*/functions.php file. If you don’t have a function.php file, create one.

<?
function fb_disable_feed() {wp_die( __(‘No feed available, please visit our <a href="’.get_bloginfo(‘url’) .’">homepage</a>!’) );}
add_action(‘do_feed’, ‘fb_disable_feed’, 1);
add_action(‘do_feed_rdf’, ‘fb_disable_feed’, 1);
add_action(‘do_feed_rss’, ‘fb_disable_feed’, 1);
add_action(‘do_feed_rss2′, ‘fb_disable_feed’, 1);
add_action(‘do_feed_atom’, ‘fb_disable_feed’, 1);
?>

Flickr spaceball.gif hack

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on Dec 9th, 2009

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Flickr spaceball.gif

Are you sick of that annoying spaceball.gif overlay that attempts to stop you saving “protected” images on Flickr.com? There’s a really simple way around it.

1. Install Adblock Plus for Firefox
2. Go to a Flickr page with a “protected” spaceball.gif image
3. Right click on the image, and select “Adblock Image”
4. In the Adblock custom field, add “*spaceball.gif” (without the quotes).
5. Click “Add Filter”. Reload. Done.

Once you’ve done that, Adblock Plus will prevent spaceball.gif from loading – which uncovers the image underneath, allowing you to right click it, view it, save it, whatever.

Geo targeting tutorial

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on Jun 13th, 2009

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Geo targeting

Here’s an incredibly easy way to get geo targeting working on your website. It’s free, and it works pretty well.

AddThis – simple sharing and bookmarking button

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on May 15th, 2009

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If you want to encourage your users to bookmark or share your site, then put an AddThis button on it. It enables your users to share your site via Twitter, Digg, MySpace, Facebook etc, and you don’t even need to sign up to get your button code.

More info at AddThis.com.

Autoplay embedded YouTube videos

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on May 12th, 2009

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Here’s a simple little tip to make embedded YouTube videos autoplay – simply add “&autoplay=1″ after the video ID in the embed code. Using autoplay is a really good idea if you’ve got YouTube videos on your landing pages – it immediately engages your audience and keeps them focussed on your sales pitch. More info on using autoplay here.

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