HostGator has launched a brand new cloud hosting platform – a move that’s frankly a few years behind the rest of their competition but hey – better late than never! The new platform offers up to 4x the resources that the current HostGator shared hosting plans offer, and claim a 2x improvement in website load times. […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
Microsoft Stops Support For Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10
I am ridiculously happy to make this post – and I just wanted to get that out of the way immediately. Now then, 2016 marks the official end of life for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10. Official end of life. Microsoft will no longer offer security updates, non-security updates, or any assistance regarding IE […]
GoDaddy Launches Logo Design Service for Small Businesses
GoDaddy has rolled out a new service, offering logo design for small businesses. The new GoDaddy logo design service kicks off at $199.99 – which in 3-5 business days gets you a new logo for your business. This sounds like a great deal – considering that the average professionally designed logo kicks off around $399 […]
Google Confirms: What It Really Thinks About Your Title Tag
During the last Google Webmaster Hangout session an interesting question came up. Just how important is the title tag for Google? Here’s what Google’s John Mueller had to say about the topic: We use that just as a part. I think it’s not like the primary ranking factor of a page, to put it that […]
Pingdom Takes A Look At Internet Performance in 2015
Pingdom has published their year in review for 2015, which is probably my favorite yearly review. It touches base on the growth of web performance and features some amazing statistics – which if you have the time I highly recommend you browse through. However, in my usual fashion, here is a summary featuring some of […]
Bing Changes Their Logo – Chooses A Gameboy Teal Color
Bing, without much fuss, has rolled out a new logo – switching from a bright yellow to a teal color reminiscent of an old Gameboy Color. Check out the new Bing logo below: According to the original AdAge report, Microsoft states that the change from yellow is due to green being “easier to see over yellow.” […]
Watermark Your Photos with GFXMark
When it comes time to watermark your photos it’s rarely a one-time, single-graphic process. Chances are you have a ton of photos, and need to watermark each one without spending hours on end manually watermarking each photograph – one at a time. GFXMark Free steps in here and offers a free Windows application which will […]
Google Confirms: There’s No Technical Benefit to Having Multiple Sitemaps
Sitemaps are a key part of any websites onsite SEO task-list, however what happens when you have a really large website with dozens of categories and hundreds of pages? Do you keep everything within a single sitemap, or do you split it up? Furthermore – what does Google want?! Well, Google’s John Mueller answered this […]
How Readable Is Your Websites Content?
Remember back in Elementary school when you used to compete with your friends about who’s paper/essay produced a higher reading level in Microsoft Word? No? Ok so maybe that was just my circle of friends – however modern day bloggers and webmasters should always be weary of the readability levels of their content. The Readability-Score.com […]
How Far Away Is You’re Website?
Ever wondered just how far your websites data has to travel to get to you? Just how many miles exists between where you’re website is, and where you are? There’s a really cool tool out there from the folks behind IP-Address.com which calculates the exact distance between two different hosts. Now there’s a number of […]
New York City Finally Begins Converting Payphones to WiFi Hubs
New York City has finally started the process of converting 7500 pay phone locations into WiFi hotspots WITH free calling functionality. The new hubs will offer free gigabit WiFi for anyone within a 150-foot radius. Furthermore the hubs will include USB device charging ports, touchscreen web browsing, and two 55-inch advertising displays. The first hub […]
Infographic: The Meaning Behind Your Logo Colors
Canadian plastic-card maker Colourfast put together a beautiful infographic discussing what different thoughts and feelings are associated with various different aspects of a logo – such as the colors, font, and letter spacing. Check out the infographic below:
New HTTP Error Code 451 Launched
As legal take-down requests increase – the Internet Engineering Task Force has launched a brand new HTTP status code specifically designed to showcase that a page is unavailable for legal reasons. The new error code, named 451, is a tribute to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The official draft states: This status code indicates that the server […]
Google Confirms: Don’t Use Special Characters In Your URLs
This recent confirmation from Google is a bit common sense, but just in-case: don’t use commas, semicolons, spaces, quotes, and other special characters in your URLs. John Mueller from Google stated in a Google Webmaster Help thread: I generally recommend avoiding special characters like commas, semicolons, colons, spaces, quotes etc. in URLs, to help keep things […]
Facebook Officially Migrates To HTML5 Video
Flash really isn’t doing well. First YouTube gave up Flash and switched to a new HTML5 video player earlier this year, and now Facebook has ditched Flash – also switching to HTML5. The move was inspired by a slew of things – performance, safety, accessibility. From development velocity to accessibility features, HTML5 offers a lot […]
Google Will Favor HTTPS Content In Search Results
It’s probably safe to say that Google has started, and led, the battle for a safer and more secure browsing experience – ever since they mentioned the first SSL ranking boost back in 2014. Ever since I’ve seen countless websites transition to HTTPS, and have gotten tons of questions from webmasters – most of whom […]
Twitter Moments Makes It To the UK
Twitter Moments – my favorite new Twitter feature – has finally rolled out in the UK! Here in the UK, we’re proud to be the first European country to roll out the service, and we pulled together a talented curation team whose sole aim is to bring you the very best of Twitter across the […]
Introducing The Pantone Colors of the Year for 2016
At the end of every year it has become tradition that Pantone picks out a color for the upcoming year. As you can see, its the end of the year, and as tradition calls for Pantone has chosen the Color of the Year for 2016 – or rather two colors. The colors selected, based on a […]
Crappy Wi-Fi This Holiday Season? Blame Those Christmas Lights!
I understand this sounds like one of those ridiculous spam hoax messages that get sent out telling you that solar flares are going to disrupt you’re Windows 10 boot sequence – and yet this is 100% true. Over the years various telecom and broadband providers have compiled reports to show the effect that Christmas-related electronics have […]
Infographic: Guide To Social Media Image Sizes [2016]
Adding some holiday cheer to your social media profiles this season? Maybe you’re just redesigning you’re image for 2016? ClickZ recently published an awesome infographic featuring all of the image sizes you need to know about for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIN and YouTube! Check out the infographic below, or click here for a […]