Performancing.com on WordPress – Goodbye Drupal
Some of you might have noticed the change in design on Performancing.com. This is because we’ve changed software. After many years of wondering how to accomplish this goal, we’ve transitioned from our old Drupal installation to WordPress. This is a great relief to myself, and I think many of the Read more…
50 Websites That Control The Digg Front Page
When I found this story late last night, I had the sneaking suspicion that I wouldn’t be surprised by the sites found on this list to be controlling the Digg front page. I and many others who have commented on these findings are indeed, not surprised by the results. Soshable.com Read more…
Help Redesign The Mozilla Website
Happy Cog which is one of the leading design firms online released an update on March 11th regarding their work on redesigning the Mozilla.org website. The update contains three seperate concept designs with the goal of each one to encapsulate what the Mozilla universe is all about. Each concept contains Read more…
Icanlocalize Now Offering Localization for Drupal Powered Sites
Reaching across language barriers is one way of increasing your blog or website’s traffic and reach. We have tried this with the Blog Herald before, focusing on human translation into various languages. While it was a worthwhile activity, I must say that the difficulty was in finding able translators who Read more…
SEOMoz Top 500 – Where Do You Rank?
SEOMoz.org recently published their list of the 500 most linked-to domains/pages on the web. The top 10 is as follows: Google.com Yahoo.com Blogspot.com Adobe.com Wikipedia.org W3.org Youtube.com Myspace.com WordPress.org Amazon.com Just for giggles, Microsoft.com comes in at number 11. Are you lucky enough to own or operate a domain in Read more…
phpBB.com Goes Down Swinging
phpBB.com, the home of the popular open source bulletin board software phpBB has gone offline today due to a hack. The hack was a result of a 0-day-exploit in their PHPList installation which was responsible for sending out release notices. It is important to note that their have been no Read more…
Great Example On How To Launch A Site
Jean-Baptiste Jung also known as the guy behind the site CatsWhoCode.com and a great member of the WordPress community has shared his success story on how he launched his relatively new site, WPRecipes.com. I know that Performancing readers are always interested in learning new techniques or ideas when it comes Read more…
MakeUseOf.com Victim Of Domain Hijacking
MakeUseOf.com which is a very popular tech blog with over 20,000 RSS subscribers has become a victim of domain hi-jacking. The MakeUseOf domain is hosted through GoDaddy and somehow, the account was hacked where the perpetrator transfered the domain to a web hosting company in Dubai. Aibek who owns the Read more…
New Fantastico Update
The latest version of Fantastico (2.10.4 r22) has been released which includes the following updates: Drupal: 6.4 -> 6.6 Gallery: 2.2.6 -> 2.3 SMF: 1.1.5 -> 1.1.6 Soholaunch Pro Edition: 4.9.3 r14 -> 4.9.3 r17 TikiWiki: 2.1 -> 2.2 WordPress: 2.6.2 -> 2.6.3 These updates may or may not be Read more…
The So-Called Sandbox is Page-Level NOT Site-Level
For those of you who do not know, the Google Sandbox is widely thought of as a probationary period for new websites during which time your site has to really struggle to show up in Google’s search results. Many people deny that the Google Sandbox even exists. I’d like to Read more…
