Going Viral On The Google Chrome Web Store

I created a web application for the company I work for in September 2011. At the time it was a brilliant idea but it had already been done.

To get high on the SERPS was going to be a challenging task. We started on about page four.

One of my team mates suggested putting the app on the chrome web store to see if that could generate more traffic. This went on ignored until he decided to upload it himself.

Automatic XML Sitemap Script

A client of mine has huge flat file based websites (about 20) which have a couple of new pages of content added each week. They used to generate the XML sitemaps at the end of every friday.

With google focusing on freshness of content, and the client wanting the pages to index faster, the client asked me for a soultion.

Canonical Tag To The Rescue

We had a big problem with duplication fears on our websites due to other websites linking with their own tracking campaigns and other forms of url manipulation.

I created a function that automatically adds the canonical tag to any url manipulations that could of happened and link back to the original, intended url for the piece of content.

Simple Punch Clock Application

I created an application that simply logs how long you have been at work for the day.

Its a really basic punch clock application that has a lot of potential to be turned into an easy to use punch clocking system for personal or corporate use.

Working on the 80/20 return on investment i left a few features out that can be easily implemented if needs be. For example the application does not take into consideration breaks within the day or multiple users. The purpose of when i made this was to be only used by one person and they did not have breaks so it was never taken into account.

Find Un-Used Styles In A Stylesheet

I was given the task at my work place last week to try and create a script that could look through our sites and pick out all the un-used styles that we have in our style sheets.

The application will go through each URL of the site which you include in a urllist.txt and then go through each style that you have provided in the style.txt.

iTunes Playlist Generator

Recently i developed a program for a friend that parses an itunes playlist export file and creates a pretty, printable playlist.

He wanted this application as the normal playlist printing facility provided by itunes was rubbish and didnt provide options to pick colours or widths. The application i created creates a printable playlist that will be easily editable by you down to the last detail.

Plug and Play PHP Breadcrumb

Around eight months ago the company that i worked for wanted to start showing a breadcrumb on each page.This was mainly for user accessibility and the added SEO benefit on getting keywords on the page as well as Google showing the breadcrumb layout in the SERPs.

I created a plug and play system that all depends on your site layout. If your site is well organised by folders and good page names then this system will work great. If you use mod_rewrite to create pretty URL's this will also work very well.

Speed Makes All The Difference

Since google started to take site speed in to website SERP positions I thought it'd be a great idea to share with you all what i have done to increase sites that i work on overall performance.

Straight away i took into consideration these 4 quick fix problems that exists on most sites:

• .htaccess caching
• Gzip/Deflate
• Removing un-nessesary html code
• Use the new analytics tracking code

Using the methods I have used below should without doubt increase your sites performances.

Simple But Clever PHP Menu

I needed to create a quick, easy and user friendly menu system into a network of sites that we own. We had a bit of a challenge as all of the sites are coded in static html files.

I needed to create a "plug in and work" system without much fuss. In the end I managed to create a user friendly menu with selected styles and also helped us get the sites that incorperated the system into a better file hierarchy, which helps search engine spiders crawl your website.