Archive | September, 2007

Public MLS Search Sites

26. September 2007

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Here is a list to some of the public MLS search sites in Wisconsin and surrounding states. I use this info in some of my real estate websites and thought it would be a good resource to share: Greater Northwoods MLS Search: [ click here ] Central Wisconsin MLS Search: [ click here ] Upper Peninsula MLS Search: [...]

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The Truth About Hosting

24. September 2007

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Over the years I have used several hosting companies for my own personal websites and for the last few years administered our company dedicated servers. In this time I have noticed an industry trend to ‘oversell’ hosting. This is most prominent in the very inexpensive hosting options know as ‘shared hosting’. In this article I [...]

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World Perspective Photos

16. September 2007

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Over the last year I have been doing a great deal of work with 360 degree immersive panoramic photography. In my experimentation I have stumbled across what I call ‘World Perspective Photos’. They work best with a horizon pano and give the sense that your personal perspective is the whole world. Here is an example [...]

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Comparing Google Analytics to Server Logs

13. September 2007

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In some of my redesign work I have been asked for a way to compare the traffic / performance of the old version of their site vs the new over a specific period of time. While being an understandable request, it poses some challenges specifically if the old site stats are based solely on server [...]

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PHP: Sessions vs Cookies

13. September 2007

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HTTP is a stateless protocol, which means that as soon as a page has been sent to the client and the connection is closed any data that has been stored is lost. As a PHP Developer, you often need a way of storing information across multiple pages of your website. The potential uses for this [...]

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