CMS, for the uninitiated, means content management system. WordPress is a CMS. Joomla is a CMS. A static HTML site is not a CMS. Any web application that makes it easy to create, store, organize and publish media to the web is a content management system. But how do you know what CMS a website is using? Or, as you might be asking, why would you want to know what CMS a site is using? If you're asking "Why?" you can save yourself a bit of time and skip this post because if you don't know then you don't need to know. Please browse the rest of the JournalXtra to dig out something you do need … [Read more...]
Breaking News: 50% Off All Server Products From Hostgator
November 25, 2011 by
Great News for anyone who missed the golden opportunity to grab a huge 50% off Hostgator server products. This offer has been rolled into Hostgator's Cyber Monday deal. You read that right! 50% off all server products until the end of today. Go grab yourself a cyber deal to be proud of! No coupon required. Deal ends midnight 11:59PM CST, 11/28/11. Click the link, follow the sale through, coupon code will automatically enter the sales page. One day only, Hostgator are giving away server space for 50% the regular price. This is Hostgator's Black Friday Thanksgiving gift to … [Read more...]
Regular Expressions – A Quick Guide
July 1, 2011 by 9 Comments
Read it out loud: "Regular Expressions." It chimes like the name of a horror movie Alfred Hitchcock would be proud to tag his name to. But it shouldn't. Don't be frightened by the name. It is, after all, only a name. Familiarize it. Shorten it to Regex or Regexp and give it a little hug as you tell it "We're going to be lifelong buddies..." What follows in this guide is an introduction to regular expressions and a reference table of regular expression metacharacters with examples for their usage. Unless you really need an introduction, jump straight ahead to the table because that is where … [Read more...]
Submit to the Top High Traffic Search Engines
May 29, 2011 by 2 Comments
The following list of search engines contains the URLs to each one's site submission form. Guide notes to the non English language search engines follow the list. Think yourself lucky you're not reading my first draft for this post. I planned to pen a good introduction to this short list of search engine submission URLs but it looked like a load of bollocks on re-reading it so I deleted the lot. Most of these are "foreign language" search engines. Except for the first 4 and the bottom 2, each one's main user base speaks a first language other than English. Quick Submission … [Read more...]
WordPress Ping List – Updated
May 17, 2011 by 27 Comments
Taken from a compilation of over 1,000 ping sites whittled down to 108 live ping sites after duplicates and dead ping sites were removed, here's your 2012 list of genuine, current and live search engine, RSS directory, RSS aggregation and ping syndication sites. All ping site types are separated into lists ready for you to pick and mix them according to your needs and desires. Listed as WordPress Ping List 21012, there's something here for any site, blog or not. Last Updated Jan 10th, 2012. All checked. All valid. 108 sites to ping. We now have 60 search engines, 41 RSS syndicators and … [Read more...]
Scriptilitious – A Linux ScriptBox
May 19, 2010 by 2 Comments
If you need a few handy Bash scripts to do a few, what should be,simple tasks then you're in the right place. Welcome to Scriptilitious, the Linux scriptbox. Scriptilitious is a plugin based Linux Bash script manager. The bash scripts included with Scriptilitious are: Auto Form Fill Auto Single Form Fill File Editor File Splitter HTML Parser Referrer Faker Site Scan Sitemap Maker Sitemap Ripper URL Extractor URL2Hyperlink The scripts work on any Linux system that has sed, awk, grep, wget, cURL, sort and expand installed in it. Each script is written in Bash and … [Read more...]
