Every once in a while you will come across the problem where characters in your content do not render correctly. You may see a little box or diamond with a question mark or this character type mismatch could lead to other problems in the management of your site.

When WordPress transitioned from the 1x versions to 2x they made a change in the database properties for how data was stored. They went from latin to utf8 this was to cure a lot of problems between wordpress used around the world and …

There are two ways that you can get Google Advertising Network links to generate product advertising information as a publisher.

The first way is FTP transfers of full product lines and the second is Emails of Daily Promotions.

The FTP method requires significant time and effort on the part of the publisher to use the data files correctly. For this reason we are not going to cover the FTP method of obtaining links at this point but I do want to describe what type of data you can expect in a FTP …

I am making a site for  my friends landscaping business and ran into a place where IE and FF don’t render the same way.

The problem was on my header element and it was related to padding.

I ran into the problem when trying to align a page background with my menu bar. First i thought it was a problem with dithering of my png file that I was using for the background image. After cleaning it up and saving it without dithering … then saving it as a gif file… I …

When you are building sites for businesses you will often find that it is better to store your content in Pages rather then in Posts.

The use of pages for the main content allows you to build a site of about 10 to 30 pages that describes your clients offerings and it can easily be displayed on your main navigation bar with drop downs.

One nice thing to do is allow your visitor to see a sidebar menu of child pages so they can select other relative topics when they are browsing. …

Error reporting is the best way to get feedback on whether your script is performing correctly however in some cases a script can choke based on something that is out of your control and then the result is a log on your website host.

I run into this problem a lot when trying to post to Twitter through a plugin.

When twitter decides that the site is starting to get overloaded the first thing that they do is throttle API calls this means your script can not complete the tweet and thus …