New Circle Blog

Adding Video to Your Website

January 12th, 2010

A Better Way to Tell Your Story Online According to comScore’s April 2009 report, an impressive 79% of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video and the duration of the average online video was 3.5 minutes. Online video has moved into mainstream and is proven effective. Video draws audiences Video is engaging With video, […]

Add Background Music to a Web Page

January 2nd, 2010

There are special occasions that people like to add some background music to web pages. Today, I had such an assignment. The requirements include: Short music, ~15 seconds in length Auto start No player or button is to be displayed on the page Client provided me with MP3 files to work with. After some search […]

Spell (and Grammar) Check Blog Posts

November 20th, 2009

Just received a kind comment from Tyson (thank you Tyson) on my blog post about gmail. I clicked on the link from the email and read the blog post again. Not sure if I had written it at a late night or what, I found quite a few typos and grammar errors in the post […]

Secure WordPress Websites

November 18th, 2009

Two of my favorite sessions of WordCamp NYC 2009 were: Locking Down the Chastity Belt on WordPress Security by Brad Williams Writing Secure Plugins by Mark Jaquith [slides here] There are real threats out there and there are real sites being hacked. Sure, you could be the lucky guy who can stay safe. But, instead […]

WordCamp NYC 2009

November 17th, 2009

WordCamp NYC 2009 was a great event. With 8 tracks, over 50 sessions, it was impossible to attend all sessions I wanted to but I did manage to check out quite a few things during these two short days. WordPress MU It was a little surprising when Andrea_R said that when approached for a CMS […]

Find out what visitors search on your site

November 11th, 2009

Many sites have in-site search. Visitors can type in a keyword in a search box and find relevant information within the website. For a site owner, you might want to know what people search for on your site. Google Analytics Site Search can do exactly this for you. If you already have Google Analytics set […]