Covid-19 Website Banner
On 26 March 2020 in the Government Gazette (Vol. 657) it was first stated that all websites with a .ZA top-level domain would be required to have (at the least) a visible link to www.sacoronavirus.co.za. You can naturally add some form of a banner or link to the website yourself, but seeing as not everybody […]
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How to clear your web browser’s cache, cookies, and history
Notes: Clearing your web browser’s cache, cookies, and history may remove some data that you wish to keep. For details, see About cache, cookies, and history below. For an alternate troubleshooting method, see Troubleshooting alternatives. For desktop browsers, to quickly open menus used to clear your cache, cookies, and history, ensure that the browser is open and selected, […]
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A simple solution to WordPress DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389)
Today I came across an article written by Mohit Kumar (TheHackerNews.com) regarding Vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389) for WordPress. You can read the article at the link above, but for brevity, I’ll give a short explanation of the vulnerability below. WordPress has a file called “load-scripts.php” which accepts a “load” parameter. You can pass a whole bunch of names to […]
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The effects of a single Google Ad on the performance of carinsurance.arrivealive.co.za
I recently underwent an expedition to improve the performance of carinsurance.arrivealive.co.za seeing as the site was a bit slow. The following post has nothing to do with the various methods of improving performance like caching, minification, etc. The only objective of this exercise was to determine the impact on the performance of adding Google Ads to the site. […]
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Insurance Chat Performance Improvements
Today was all about performance optimization for some of my clients. I will be sharing some of the sites’ scores in a series of posts. The first site to be written about is http://www.insurancechat.co.za/. This was not the first site I optimized but will be the first one to be discussed. Before I started with any optimization, […]
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Uploading Directories With webkitdirectory
If you’ve ever tried to implement a bulletproof, good-looking drag’n’drop, you might have encountered an issue: uploading an entire folder or folders of files usually isn’t possible, and so filesin each folder have to be selected manually. Unless you use input webkitdirectory, an obscure attribute that allows users to pick a directory via a file input. Currently supported in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. For […]
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7 Lesser-known Debugging Tactics for Visual Studio
1. Edit the value of a variable without changing code Are you ever debugging when you get to a variable and it isn’t what you think it should be? Or maybe you just want to change it to see how the code would behave with a different value? You can easily do this while debugging […]
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10 Tips On Typography in Web Design
Communication plays a vital role in design —it’s essential to establish a clear connection between the website and user and to help your users accomplish their goals. When we talk about communication in web design context, we usually mean text. Typography plays a vital role in this process: More than 95% percent of information on […]
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WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Files of Any Format
Have you ever felt like wishing of sending any type of file immediately to your friends and office colleagues on WhatsApp directly, instead of just contacts, images or documents? Well, now you can… The latest version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS now allows users to send and receive any type of files, whether it’s […]
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You would be surprised how much bigger Bing is than you think
Bing is perceived as many things, but successful has never been one of them. Yet the little search engine that could have actually been making good over many years, reaching profitability two years ago in 2015 and has only gone from strength to strength since. Now Microsoft has released some new numbers showing just how well […]
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