We recently migrated some of our websites to a new VPS with Inmotion hosting. After the migration, everything went smooth (pretty much.. but as smooth as a server transfer can be), except one issue – all the timthumb.php scripts were not working well in Wordpress, which meant that blog thumbnails were not generating.
So for example, the following URL returned a 404 error, and defaulted to Wordpress’ 404 page:
http://www.sonikastudios.com/wp-content/themes/sonikas/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/DSC01426-600×337.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=100
This happened on this very blog (www.jeffkee.com) as well. So then I went to check other things out, and found out that other …

It’s been a while since I provided an update to this blog. I’d like to share some work that I’ve done for my clients and go over some of the basic technologies.
1. Xtown.ca
Xtown is an extreme sports facility located in Quebec, and they have an excellent indoor track for motocross, ATVs and more. For Xtown we’ve provided web design work, as well as PHP/MySQL programming work in order to allow them to manage members, bookings and payments on the website through the front end and back end. It is an …

TinyURL.com is a great service. It allows you to truncate a long URL into one short URL that you can easily distribute to friends and associates through social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Ping.FM and more.
The only limitation I saw with TinyURL was that, it allows for one URL per forward. I saw a friend of mine trying to advertise 2 different URLs at once through Facebook, and it was pretty messy and long. So I thought, “Why not forward multiple URLs at once with something better?”
And then I came …

As many of you know, I’ve been working on programming the TTZMedia’s Affiliate Banner System for the last several months for John Chow, and there’s always ongoing maintenance to do. Speed and load optimization, design fixes, and stats modules upgrades, referral program add-ons, etc.
One of the things that came up as we started accepting more affiliates who are not friends with John Chow was this : CLICK FRAUD.
So many affiliates are starting to take advantage of it, logging more clicks than they should, that are not deserved.
Here are some of …

ActiveX controls – a method of an embedded controlling system that gets deployed on your computer from a website so that certain websites can perform more robust functions – that’s what it is basically. It was a Microsoft creation, and when the internet was young and not as powerful, it was a goldmine for web-based software. Some major websites that use ActiveX controls is MLSLINK for realtors (Multiple Listing Service which provides real-time online listing data). Also, Quickbooks online (an accounting management system that tracks income and expenses) uses ActiveX …

Jamie Harrop wrote a post on Daily Web Ideas on 7 ways to increase your pagerank. Great post I must say and I recommend reading it. He discussed how to get a better pagerank from an excellent marketing and advertising point of view.
On another note I’d like to toss in some of my own SEO ideas for better results – from a web developer’s perspective. Considering Jamie has already covered the other end, this is all I have left.
I cannot stress enough the issue of Keywords. No matter how good …

I’m sure so many people have been talking about this, and I will pitch my 2 cents in to this concept which is one of the greatest pinnacles of Web 2.0 – “Segregation of Data and Presentation”
You guys are all going “What…???” if you don’t know much about web design. And even if you do, if have been focusing only on the small stuff like how to make that PNG show on IE or how to apply transparency on objects, you won’t get this right away – here’s an opportunity …