• Notifying Google of an XML sitemap via a URL

    Today I found out you can easily notify Google of an XML sitemap by ‘pinging’ Google via a GET request: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=URLOFSITEMAP.xml You can perform this via PHP, or if running on Linux; use wget.
  • Websites of the month: August 2017

    Parallax   BaySentry   Waymo   CitiPark   Teachable   Made By Google   Marvel App   Help Scout   Simply Measured   Mapbox   Quickbase
  • Quick and Easy SSL chipers

    I’ve recently came across the https://cipherli.st/ site, from the cron.weekly email newsletter (I highly suggest you sign-up, some great posts and sites featured). Cipherli.st allows you to copy and paste SSL ciphers for a variety of web software (Apache, Nginx, etc.).
  • Favourite typefaces of 2017 so far

    This list features some of my favourite typefaces so far for 2017. Most are from websites I have seen over the past couple of months, others are ones I Have known about for a while – see the list below     Activ Groteske By Dalton Maag Download: https://www.daltonmaag.com/library/aktiv-grotesk Price: Paid, dependant on styles and ...
  • In-page embedded viewable PDF documents without a PDF reader

    Here is a neat trick which I’ve found: using a tool by Google named Docs Viewer you can embed PDF (Or office and Postscript) files into a webpage to be viewed on screen, even without a PDF reader plugin installed in the user’s browser. Simply use the snippet below and change where your_document_here is mentioned twice ...