Logo design contest

If you think you are a good designer then I would definitely advice you to join the new logo design contest of the webdigity community.

The prize is $100 and I think what they ask is really simple for someone who knows a little Photoshop or Illustrator.

For more info refer here.

Manipulate the users of your site with phpUserClass

Finally I’ve decided to contribute something in the php open source community. Today we’ve published the php user class, which is a class for user manipulation under php and mysql.

The class uses variable settings for database (table, fields), session and cookie variables, and it can easily be used in a new or an established project. I wrote it this way in order to integrate it with other projects that have bad user system and even use it in adition to other open source projects (for instance you can create a stand alone module which will be able to use the users of your wordpress blog )

You can see a demonstration of how it works in the examples page.

Hope you will like it

More php tutorials from webdigity

I would like to announce that webdigity has opened the tutorials section to non webdigity members, so it would be easier for everyone to get tutorials from them for free.

The webdigity tutorials, consist mostly of php tutorials and there are many code snippets there that you would pay to get them elsewhere.

Also there is an RSS feed for the tutorials which you can subscribe to, if you are interested in coding. Enjoy

Are you looking for your next web hosting?

Looking for a web hosting partner is usually a very hard task. This is because there are so many web hosting companies out there, and in most cases you are not able to know how good a company is before you use their services. An example of the problems that may occur is the recent downtime of the online marketing blog which was down for about 18 hours when their hosting provider decided to stop serving them…

Personally I have changed a lot of hosting partners in order to find someone that I can trust. There are many companies that have serious downtimes, others have hidden charges, etc. So when you are looking for web hosting the goal is to find a serious company which is in business for a long time and have no downtime. Of course your web hosting provider should have enough bandwidth to serve your sites fast.

I guess those are the problems that real metrics thought and found a great solution. The solution sounds simple but technically is not. They have bought hosting accounts from several providers, and they run several tests that indicate how good a hosting service is. So in webdigity’s web hosting comparisons you can look for your next web hosting partner with the minimal risk that you could take.

Enjoy

New $100 logo design contest at webdigity

A new $100 logo design contest has just been started at webdigity, and thought to post it here as it may be interesting to many of our visitors.

Good luck with your submissions

Debugging and optimizing your apps with Xdebug

Xdebug is a great tool for debugging and optimizing PhP applications. As mentioned in this nice post regarding Xdebug, this php extension will help you find out more information about your application.

That is the running process (it gives you step by step analysis of your script) and give some time statistics for each part of your program. I think this tool is great if you want to reduce overhead from your applications.

Read more about Xdebug here.

New wordpress theme

I just found this cool wp theme, and thought to share it with you

Proxy business. Are you interested?

This is a great article regarding the proxy business, covering the pros and cons of running a proxy web site. Additionally there are many tips on how to establish a proxy web site. Enjoy reading

New logo design contest

Just wanted to announce the new logo design contest that has just been started at webdigity.

The prize is $100, so you better be hurry. More information about the contest can be found here.

The true story about sitemaps

The funny thing about blogging is that you allways have to write a funzy title even if it has nothing to do with what you are talking about Today I found out a possible problem regarding SEO which seems to be the sitemaps. There are many people out there who claim that sitemaps are not really helping, and actually can cause deindexing of your web site from google.

Daniel Lindberg  got his site deindexed and then reindexed with less pages in SEPRs, while the topic is discussed in many webmaster forums.

Personally I can’t really express any opinion as I only used sitemaps once, and I can’t measure the results. Of course the warning is there, and we will wait from someone with more experience to tell us what actually happens when you submit a sitemap to google.