In the beginning of May Google announced that you would now be able to monitor page load time in the new version of Google Analytics. You will now have the ability to see which pages are loading the slowest and you can even break it down to what browsers load the slowest and what parts of the World load the slowest.
The first thing you need to do to be able to measure load time is to make a slight modification to your Google Analytics pixel.
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This week our friends over at RaceVermont.com informed us that the Facebook like box on their homepage was no longer showing in Internet Explorer 9. After doing some research we quickly found out that we weren’t the only ones experiencing this issue. The problem occurs when you’re using an older version of the Like Box code.
To fix the Facebook Like Box not showing in Internet Explorer 9 you only have to do a few simple steps.
1) Go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box and generate your new code.
2) Swap out your old for the new code and you should be back in business.
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Earlier this week we were presented with the challenge of doing some work on a Drupal site. The issue with this was that the client did not know the administrator username and password. After spending a few minutes poking around the database we were able to get the following commands to work.
To recover your Drupal username type this into the SQL section of PHPMyAdmin:
SELECT name FROM users WHERE uid = 1;
To recover your Drupal password type this into the SQL section of PHPMyAdmin:
UPDATE users SET pass = md5(‘password’) WHERE uid = 1;
When doing the password change just change the password to whatever you want your new password to be.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us and we’ll be glad to assist you in changing your Drupal administrator password.
This morning I was researching a variety of plugins to integrate a Google Calendar to display on a WordPress page. I came across WPNG Calendar, a very easy solution for adding a calendar to any page within WordPress.
All smooth until I went to go preview my page. I had entered the:
And the page drew a JavaScript error and kept spinning the loading animation. Did some digging and I found the solution.
By default the Google Calendar Feed URL will give you (XML Format):
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/CALENDARID/public/basic
This URL is valid for a XML feed, but for this plugin that doesnt work, if you use the “full” URL. Your problem will be solved!. Use this format below:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/CALENDARID/public/full
Hopefully that will work for you as well and save the headache of debugging and hoping.
If you have any issues feel free to contact us.
A few weeks ago one of our new clients came to us about transferring their domain before we began our work. After gather all the proper credentials we sat down to do something we had done hundreds of times before. However, we quickly learned that having a domain with Microsoft Office Live means you lose all control over your DNS. If you want to control your DNS you actually need to go through the process of canceling your account with Microsoft Office Live. When you do that your website is taken down, your email is gone, and you are left wondering what to do next.
Thanks to this great post by Peter Vatistas in which he outlined all the steps to cancel your Microsoft Office Live account our job was a thousand times easier. Here are the steps that Peter outlined which worked so well for us:Read more
