Webjockey - Upstart Blogger

Feb 01 07

It doesn’t matter what software you’re using to power your blog or Web site—WordPress, Textpattern, Drupal, Pligg, etc. At some point, there’s a good chance you’ll need to run cron jobs to automatically execute various tasks on your preset schedules.
For example, it’s a very good idea to schedule automatic backups of your database. Your site […]

How to Create a Cron Job in cPanel

Nov 15 06

Robert EllisWebjockey19 Comments

There are numerous ways to backup and restore your MySQL database, from the simple to the complex, both manual and automatic, some reliable and others spotty. In this post, I’ll outline several strategies for keeping your MySQL database safe and secure. Since I use WordPress, I’ll talk specifically about backing up a WordPress database, but […]

8 MySQL Backup Strategies for WordPress Bloggers (And Others)

Jan 06 06

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Since I’ve been working on redesigning the site, I’ve been stumbling on a number of useful tools. The Web Page Analyzer from WebSiteOptimization.com helps you test your Web site speed and offers suggestions to improve performance. Analysis and recommendations cover a number of factors that influence load times, such as HTML, number and size of […]

Optimize Your Site With the Web Page Analyzer

Jan 06 06

Robert EllisWebjockey1 Comment

You can learn a lot about visitors to your site from studying your log files. There are numerous statistics services (like Google Analytics) and software packages (like Mint) to help you view your information in a variety of ways. But Crazy Egg (still in beta) provides more immediate insight into how users actually use a […]

Monitor Visitor Clicks With Crazy Egg

Oct 04 05

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Treehouse, a PDF web development magazine, is offering a free inaugural issue for download. The magazine is divided into four sections: Code, Design, Business and Digest, and includes interviews, book reviews, essays and opinion pieces. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Shaun Inman, creator of the tasty stats program Mint, and Paul Scrivens, of the […]

Free Issue of Treehouse Web Development Magazine

Sep 16 05

Robert EllisWebjockeyNo Comments

IceRocket is another blog search engine, like Google Blog Search. IceRocket offers blog, Web, news, moblog, image, and multimedia search. A Blogs Trend Tool lets you track trends and IceRocket’s Link Tracker lets you track links from other blogs to your posts.

IceRocket Blog Search

Sep 14 05

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Google has launched a new search engine devoted to blogs. Google Blog Search won’t be limited to blogs published on Blogger (owned by Google), but will include any blog that publishes a site feed. You can subscribe to a feed of search results, so your newsreader can be updated whenever there are new entries […]