This weekend I have moved this blog from my main site – STGSYS.COM – to STGSYS.NET. The main reason is simple – on the other server, WordPress was horribly slow. Several times I was unable to fix errors or add information in posts, because the server would time out. Even when it worked, it still [...]
43 Free Animated Gifs for Your Email Campaign
Aweber is giving away a package with 43 free animated gifs. They are not that exciting – mostly Buy Now and Social buttons with a little detail – but they are still a neat touch for free. See a couple of samples below. I also found their reference to an older study interesting – up [...]
MailChimp and Attached files
Mailchimp has a new, neat integration with Digioh that allows you to share files with your newsletter audience. It also generates unique links so that you can track exactly who downloaded your files, as well as other stats.
How to Create an Awesome Demo Video for Your Business – Miguel Hernandez – Course Review
I have just finished watching How to Create an Awesome Demo Video for Your Business , by Miguel Hernandez. Miguel Hernandez’ company is GrumoMedia. They have an interesting style for their videos – they are at the same time fun to watch, informative, and they sell the product very well. You can see them by yourself on [...]
10 excellent SEO plug-ins for every blog | Webdesigner Depot
Interesting list of SEO plugins for WordPress.
Stanford Online AI Classes
This year, a whole batch of free online classes became available from Stanford professors. I’ve always been interested in AI, and so I took Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning . Both courses cover AI, but the first does more of a tour of the field, covering a lot of topics. The second is only about Machine Learning, [...]
Ben Hunt’s Web Design Course Review
This year I took Ben Hunt’s Pro Web Design Course. I learned a lot from it – and was able to raise my websites’ ranking for several keywords, and got some extra traffic too. The main reason I took the course was after reading Ben’s books Save the Pixel, Convert! and seeing his videos on [...]
Web Album
You can quickly make Web Albums with STGThumb. While you can easily tell from the name that thumbnails were the main idea when I first developed STGThumb, very soon users started to request a Web Album feature. It couldn’t be easier to make online photo albums with STGThumb. Just choose the photos you want, click [...]
How to Pull More Readers into Your Content with One Simple Trick
Interesting article on how to customize the text on your excerpts more link:
The Art of Readable Code – Book Review
The Art of Readable Code – Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code – by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher – is a book on advice on making your code more readable. Why would you want your code to be more readable? It might not seem so important while you are coding, specially if [...]
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