Stretch a background image

Well, yeah, I thought it might be useful for your website building efforts, so I looked up articles about stretching a background image and this is what I found:

- short version: How do you ... stretch a background image?
- long (detailed) version: How Do you Stretch a Background Image in a Web Page

Check out my blog for example, doesn't it just look so great? :)

Form in tooltip with text linked send button

While continuing to work on gergomatis.com I needed to find a simple contact form, something that fits the minimalist design of the site. I was spending a very long time with searching and I thought this was only possible with JavaScript [one of the simplest examples: Help Writing An Html Code (onclick Open Something)], but then I found exactly what I needed. No JavaScript, no complicated coding, a simple CSS rule is enough:

2 new websites in the hood

I just finished 2 smaller projects. One is a house sale website called mansion.law2success.com and the other one is a minimalist photographer's site, gergomatis.com.

I use simpleviewer on both the sites that is a simple and nicely editable photo viewing add-on for your website. Nevertheless, it's free! ;)

GIMP - Quickmask Tutorial

Ever thought about making a faded frame to one of your pictures? Well, I did, so I looked up Google for faded frame in GIMP and found a nice article about GIMP Quickmask Tutorial.

To be vesy honest, I actually found an article describing the same on GIMP.org first but for some time I have problems accessing the page. I like this version more as it's the official documentation, however it doesn't serve you well if the site is down, right? :)

Stop Hotlinking with .htaccess

If your download quota on your website counts or in case it's not very fast anyway, it might be a good idea to disallow others to hotlink (put a direct link on their website) to images of your website. Doing so, every time somebody clicks that hotlink, they're going to use the bandwidth of your hosting server and, depending on the size of the image, may even slow it down.

Fortunately there's a solution for that which is, again, a nice .htaccess trick. Here you'll find a well built article about how to Stop Hotlinking with .htaccess.

Hide File Extension with .htaccess

While browsing in some websites, I realized that in some cases I cannot see the extension of the page that they created for one or another page on the website. I decided to dig into this and found a very good article about this: Hide file extensions in URLs.

Some .htaccess abreviations:
NC - "No Case" - ignore upper and lower case
OR - "Or Next" - apply rule in this line or next line
L - "Last" - stop applying rules

Label Cloud Widget for Blogger

Did you see my neat label cloud widget on the right somewhere in the middle? You like it? Alright, let me share the post with you that describes its setup perfectly: Label Cloud Widget For Blogger (Click Here!) ;)

Letter to Danielle - SEO 101 by webeno #1

Danielle,

Basically you can devide SEO into 2 main groups: on-site and off-site SEO

On-Site SEO

If a website developper knows something about that there are some basic things they can do on the website for better SEO: 12 Basic On-Site SEO Tactics (Click Here!)

Off-Site SEO