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Using htaccess To Always Have the WWW In Your URLs
I've had a blown disc in my neck for over a month now, so needless to say I've just NOT been in the mood to blog. However, I decided that I could at least write smaller/quicker posts in the meanwhile instead of my typical long ones... so here goes the first of (hopefully) many little tidbits.
Today I'm just posting a little bit of code that I use in my .htaccess file to make all visitors (including search engine robots) 301 redirect to URLs with a 'www' in front of them. Why do this? Because instead of search engines seeing xxx amount of incoming links to www.stoutlabs.com and xxx amount of incoming links to stoutlabs.com (no www), it sees both sets of incoming links as one total – and thus gives me a higher placement/page ranking!
30 Days of MooTools Tutorials
The folks over at the Consider blog have just started with their '30 Days of MooTools Tutorials' series... and since I have so many search engine hits for MooTools-related searches these days, I wanted to share with everyone. Hopefully we will all learn a little something over the next 30 days – and it will probably be a great MooTools reference either way.
DevSnippets.com
I just wanted to make a quick post about a new site, DevSnippets.com, brought to you by the folks at Noupe. I really think it's going to be a fantastic resource for fellow web developers, so definitely stop in and have a look around.
Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 2
In the second part of this tutorial, I'm going to show you how I did the live comment preview with the auto-expansion of the preview and the input textarea. I'll be building upon the first part of this tutorial, so be sure to check that one out first if you haven't already. So, let's get to it...
Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 1
I can't promise anything, but I plan on putting out at least one tutorial a month. For my very first one, we'll be dealing with MooTools and contact forms. It's a bit lengthy, so I'm going to be breaking this up into two posts. There are four main things we'll tackle:
- Animated field highlighting
- Displaying/hiding instructions for each input field
- Live comment previewing
- Auto-resizing of both the comment preview and it's corresponding textarea input