TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Do you use WordPress? We previously reviewed the first public beta of WordPress 3.0 back in April. Today, Automattic has just announced the gold release of WordPress 3.0, with numerous new features, including multi-site, menu editor, custom backgrounds, headers, post types, and much more. Learn more about this new release in the video below as well as on our new BlogAirlines. What are your thoughts... 

The previously announced BlogAirlines is now officially in flight! Launched on June 12, 2010, the maiden flight of BlogAirlines took place on June 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM EST. In case you missed it, BlogAirlines focuses on blogging tips, tutorials, themes, resources, and SEO. TechAirlines will no longer be covering these topics and will instead focus on computer tips, tricks, news, and reviews. TechAirlines,... 

Are you trying to keep your website compliant with current web standards and free of validation errors? Validation helps ensure that your website will work properly on the widest range of web browsers. Often times, validation errors don’t do any harm to your site, however, it’s usually best to be as standard compliant as possible. Plus, all the big companies try to validate their page.... 

For all of the fans of the popular WordPress blogging system (myself included), the first public beta of the next generation of WordPress has just been released a few days ago. Besides regular bug fixes, WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 introduces numerous new features including a new default theme, custom post types, and the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU. WP Admin Dashboard You may notice the dashboard... 

PHP is a very fast server side scripting language that is often used for dynamic content such as blogs including Tech Airlines. However, themes often contain many unnecessary PHP queries, especially those that are publicly distributed. Queries often request information from the database and even though its very fast, excessive requests could significantly slow down your site. Some Examples of Unnecessary... 

Do you use Blogger? My earlier comparison between Blogger and WordPress showed that Blogger did not support static pages. This was useful for creating, for example, a ‘Contact Us’ page or an ‘About Us’ page.  To create static pages in Blogger, users usually create a post and change the publish date to something really old. Well, it looks like the Google Team at Blogger listened... 

WordPress has many contact form plugins. The one I use here at Tech Airlines is called Contact Form 7. It’s extremely flexible and easy to use. However, the one thing that has always bugged me was that its 3 scripts (Ajax and 2 jQuery scripts) load on every single page regardless of whether or not its required and only 3 of the pages on this site require it. This can significantly slow down the... 

Google offers Google Webmaster Tools for webmasters to submit their site to Google as well as get detailed indexing and keyword information. A similar service is also offered by Yahoo! and Bing. These services allow providing a sitemap(s). Why are Sitemaps Important? Sitemaps help tell search engines, such as Google, what pages exist in your site and is especially useful for those they might not find...