jQuery Pirobox

Need an awesome way to display your pictures on your site. Check out pirobox.

http://www.pirolab.it/pirobox/

Fixed Background Image

In CSS:
background:#42021E url(images/bg.png) repeat-x;
background-attachment:fixed;
}

If you want to learn more about backgrounds, you can read up at w3chools.

How to get www in front of your URL

So my website, www.moderncurio.com is missing the "www" in front of it's name. Apparently it's a common occurrence that will 15 minutes to fix and weeks to resolve.

The solution is a two part fix. The first leg involves setting up Google Webmaster Tools. After you verify your sites (both the www and non-www). Go to Site Configuration > Settings > Preferred Domain and set it to "Display URLs as www.example.com"

Part two of the solution is to set up a 301 redirect and you can do that by adding the code below to your .htaccess file:

# non-www to www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

To learn more, read up on more on 301 redirects.

After all this, it'll take a while for google webmaster tools to take effect. Apparently, it takes weeks for Google Webmaster Tools Blog to configure itself. You can learn more about the process at the tools.

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NOTE: WORDPRESS USERS:
For WordPress Users, you will also need to change a setting in wordpress general settings and set your preferred URLs to have www.

Online Favicon Maker

I know this isn't code related however I thought this would be good to track.

I needed to make a favicon today so I used this online site to generate it.

http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

Helping the Browser Locate the favicon.ico file

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml