You're probably registered on at least one forum. And you've no doubt seen that in your forum profile, you can add your favourite Instant Messaging (IM) profile details, and other users can see if you're online. You in turn, can see who else is online as well. Well what if you want to add that status indicator to a website you run? Here are a series of PHP classes that can detect the online/offline status in all of the major IMs. (more…)

A couple of years ago, many companies that venture into marketing online were exploring the option of Pay Per Click advertising, and sourcing a provider. Google AdWords has become the most popular, and generally speaking it is the PPC suite that most companies start with. (more…)

A number of email administrators have complained that Office files are detected as ZIP files, and therefore blocked by their spam filters. The reason for this is that Microsoft is actually using ZIP to compress the documents. (more…)

I love working with Google Analytics. It's got most of the advanced features of some of the bigger on-demand analytics solutions, such as Webtrends and others. I use it on all of my sites because it's free and gives me valuable insights into visitor navigation, that no log file web statistics software can provide. (more…)

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Recently I had to add some PHP code to the template of a Joomla site I run, but I wanted that code to run on the homepage only. Considering the fact that I'm using an SEF component on the site, it was tricky, but here's the line of PHP code I was able to do it with:

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