How to Add a Favicon to a Web Site

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:14 Written by David Bauernschmidt Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:00

Branding a site can include a wide range of initiatives.  Some can take a large amount of time and energy (graphic designs, target marketing, etc.) while others can take just a few minutes.  Today, I am going to show you a way to add branding to your site without paying a dime and take less than 15 minutes.  You don’t need to pay anyone and can do this completely online for free.  The only requirement is that you have a company image.  When you get this then follow the steps below.

Go to a site that will allow you to upload your image and tweak the image like

• favicon.cc
• Degraeve.com
• Favicon-generator.org

Web Deploy: Unauthorized or Permission Denied

Last Updated on Monday, 6 May 2013 06:14 Written by Andrew Brown Friday, 10 May 2013 12:00

If you are getting permission-related errors when attempting to publish via Web Deploy, it may be because the ACL’s you have set in your development environment are incompatible with Arvixe’s ACL configuration. Information on how a Web Deploy publishing file is created/configured can be found here.

Image Options for Better Web Performance

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:00

If you read articles on best practices you will quickly read that one of the best ways to increase performance is to limit your calls to the server as well as “shrink” the size of those files.  Implementing and keeping up with all of the options can actually take a full time job.  However as a small business web developer, I have realized that just implementing some of these can have a profound impact to your site.  We are always loading “assets” from the server to support a page.  These “assets” might include, images, javascript libraries, style sheets, video, audio, etc.  Better managing these assets not only improves performance but in some cases also lowers the band-width requirements.  We are very visual people so it has been my experience that the areas for great performance is to address the images first and then move on to the other areas. I am not saying that the other areas aren’t important but rather some of the little things you can do to images can improve a lot towards performance. My goal is talk about some of the available options as well as give you some thoughts and links that make this even easier.

Error When Adding Pinterest Button to Web Site

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by David Bauernschmidt Friday, 19 April 2013 12:00

The other day I had time to go back and look into some errors that I was getting on a web site that I was building. It did not affect the performance or any of the functionality (at least that is what I thought) but it was very annoying to always have to hit the F5 key during debug in VS 2012. I got busy and determined to finish the site, published it and the client really liked it but now was the time for me to go back and look at what was causing this error. The error I am referring to is the error that is an indication that the browser was quicker than the download or the same error when a javascript CDN is offline, but I knew this was not the case.

Installing Joomla Manually on Linux Web Hosting

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 March 2013 09:28 Written by Milton Parada Sunday, 24 March 2013 12:00

This article is about how to manually install Joomla in Linux hosting. If you want to manually install this article will serve to you.

1. Download the Joomla package, here
2. Upload the package it in your file manager, and extract.
3. Before starting the installation, you first have to create the database and the user. If you don’t know how, read this.