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Are Visitors Blocking Your Site’s Ads? Find Out, and Do Something About It
For website visitors, there are lot of upsides to turning on ad-blocking software: more privacy, faster page loads, and most of all, relief from distracting ads. The idea that advertising-supported sites may suffer or disappear because they can’t deliver pages views and clicks to advertisers isn’t on their site visitors’ minds.
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How to Defend Your Site from Intrusions, Threats and Really Annoying Punks
Hop Studios has been up and running for 13 years, and every year, one or more of our client’s websites has been hacked in some way. Some of these have spectacularly obvious—home pages overwritten with strange content—but most have been relatively hard to spot immediately, regardless of how significant a hack it was.
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It’s Time to Update the Search on Your Site
Although we love the content management system ExpressionEngine at Hop Studios, we frequently replace EE’s search tool with a customized installation of Google Custom Search. Updates to how CSE works means it’s time to think about upgrading the code on your site so that your pages load faster.
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Responsive Design Requires Responsive Ads
When a design is “responsive,” the page automatically changes how content is displayed to best suit the the platform, which is increasing important as more of us surf the web from our phones and tablets. Responsively designed ads
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Dev tip : Embed a Twitter timeline on a Website without OAuth
To embed a twitter timeline or a tweet feed on a website, you have 2 choices: use the widget provided from Twitter or use their 1.1 API.
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