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Where has the Facebook View App Profile Page Link Gone?!?

posted on December 14th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

Facebook View App Profile PageFacebook is on the move again.  They definitely keep things very interesting, to put it nicely.

I received a call this evening from a nice gentleman in Atlanta who was beside himself because he was trying to add a custom Facebook Page Tab to his Facebook Page and not having any luck.  He’d been at it for two days.  He made it through one of my videos only to get to the end and not see the nice link in the sidebar that reads “View App Profile Page”.  This was the link that would then allow you to add the application to any Facebook Page that you administer.  My initial response to adding the Facebook Page Tab was, Read More→

Create a Google+ Company Page

posted on November 15th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

Now that Google+ is in a wider release, and open to business accounts, I’ve decided to jump on board and create some pages.  They aren’t anything spectacular but my feeling is that the more touch points one has on the web the better.  This said, it is important Read More→

Creating a Facebook iFrame Application

posted on August 29th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

REMEMBER: October 1, 2011 marks the requirement that Facebook Canvas and Page Tab Apps support secure URLs (i.e., HTTPS). Read more about Facebook Security Changes.

Previously we published a video covering how to Create a Facebook Page.  In order to utilize a Facebook iFrame Application you will need a Read More→

Put a Facebook Send or Like Button on Your Posts with Code

posted on May 5th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

On April 25, 2011, Facebook released the [Send] button. The [Send] button provides a means to share a web page with someone directly, as opposed to the [Like] button’s behavior of placing the entry on your wall for all your friends. Of course, the [Like] button is handy too. Fortunately Read More→

Obfuscating Email Addresses

posted on March 21st, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

Froggy

I’ve long held that putting a plain text email on a website is not a good idea. Even with being careful like this I’m inundated with a large amount of Spam. While I don’t put my email address online in a plain text fashion, and preach the same to others, I’m not always afforded Read More→

WordPress Theme Anatomy

posted on January 20th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

This has to be one of the best diagrams that pulls together all the working parts of a WordPress theme. My hat is off to Joost de Valk for pulling this great illustration together and granting me permission to share it with the visitors to my site. Read More→

WordPress Security

posted on December 29th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

padlockToday I happened to come across a great article (update – article no longer exists, so, link removed) that has some details on hardening a WordPress install. I already follow Read More→

How Does Your Site Stack Up – Part 1: User Interface Standards

posted on November 4th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

It’s not a bad idea to review one’s website design at least a couple of times a year to ensure the design remains solid.  Recently, WEBphysiology took a spoonful of our own advice and performed a cross-browser review of our site, which resulted in us making a couple of small user interface (UI) changes.  One change was to Read More→

Adding Widget Areas to a Page

posted on September 7th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

In this post I want to cover how one can add widget areas to a page. The example I’m going to use is something I had done on a TwentyTen child theme to make the home page consist of two widget areas. The left widget area is meant for Read More→

Child Themes and the function.php File

posted on August 30th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

In my last post, “Customizing a WordPress Theme – The Right Way“, I mentioned that the function.php file is used to add new functionality to your Child theme. Many times this may be to add additional HTML elements and tags to allow for use in styling (i.e., CSS). Another use of the function.php file within a Child Theme is to Read More→

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