This blog is an ongoing project by Mike Maddaloni, president of Dunkirk Systems, LLC, to archive the myriad of tech tips and resources he has collected along his 10+ years as a Web developer.
Accessible Captcha is an extension for ExpressionEngine 1.x where instead of showing a graphic and the user has to figure what hidden message is displayed, it displays a question randomly from a admin-defined list. Much more friendly than those hard-to-read images, not to mention the benefit for those who are visually impaired! I use it on all of my EE sites. It is free, but they accept a donation.
This thread in the ExpressionEngine forums talks about file upload limits. In short, it can be the setting within EE or in PHP on your server, which may be able to be changed in php.ini. If all else fails, contact your Web host.
We have been experimenting with Tweetmeme and how to add a retweet button to your blog. We are testing it both on the Web pages as well as the Web pages here at sourcegate as well as in the RSS feed. Please take a look and tell us how we are doing!
ECHO is a hosted commenting system. By embedding the code into your blog or Web site, you can allow users to login through various social media sites to leave comments. ECHO is a paid service.
Train-ee is an excellent source for learning ExpressionEngine. They offer classroom, online and free tutorials. I use the site to brush up on EE features and functionality, and I am always learning something from the site.
Easily create and add a poll to your Web site or blog with PollDaddy. There are some limitations to the free account, but it should work for general use. The paid Pro account removes most all of them.
Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines your blog has been updated.. And yes, I took that description directly from the service, as I couldn’t say it better myself!
If you have a blog, use FeedBurner and its MyBrand feature and have merged your FeedBurner account into your Google account, your MyBrand feed may break, and you will get a 404 error.
This is a known issue, and I found this post on how to resolve the FeedBurner MyBrand break. In short, you delete it and readd it! I had to deactivate MyBrand then reactivate it in order for it to take. This was done after I had the CNAME updated.
By the way, if you don’t use MyBrand, you should. Especially if you ever decide to stop using FeedBurner, you will not lose the feed URL.
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