Category: Website Development

Tar is an immeasurably useful archival tool available on most Linux/Unix-based systems. It is used regularly as part of Linux systems administration at all skill level. This article will tackle a number of common usage case and questions regarding tar. When finished, you will have learned how to effectively utilize tar archives to: compress, create, […]

The past 13 years haven’t been kind to blogs. Today, they’re viewed as a relic of the early days of the Internet, where people didn’t know how to design websites, and everyone had a blog. And for a while, it was good. I remember participating in a network of blogs with curated communities, where we […]

I’ve talked about the impact of AI on website owners when it comes to writing content that’s more “human-like”, and leveraging the unique attributes humans can offer. I’ve also written about the kinds of websites that I think will thrive in the future. But what does all this mean for your existing website? Is there […]

A bit of a morbid topic, I know, but it recently came to my attention when I read that Bill Slawsky died in mid-May via a Tweet from his company: For decades, Bill Slawsky managed a blog called SEO by the Sea, keeping track of the latest Google updates and more. For the community, it […]

For the past week or so, Google Analytics has been showing inflated stats for several of my pages. A while back, I’d written about fake traffic in Google Analytics from visitors that weren’t coming to your site. I don’t know whether the perpetrators finally stopped or whether their tactics were blocked by Google. But the […]

Over the past few days, I’ve ended up migrating my site to a NameHero VPS. And in all this, I’ve found the absolute best way to test your site on the new server before you change your DNS records. The Problem Making the final switch of your DNS records is an act of faith. You […]

Recently, Google introduced a new “doesn’t match regex” filter on the search console which I immediately found a use for! A few months back, I wrote about how to practice content hygiene on your website. One of the biggest difficulties I had with creating a list of pages for my website WP-Tweaks, was that the search […]

Website design is full of fads. Color combinations come and go. App design moves from “skeuomorphism” to “flat” design – like the simulation of a page turn in a books application instead of just sliding into the next page. Some of these fads stick around, whereas others fall by the wayside. I feel that the […]

Well, that happened relatively fast! After years of telling us that cookies are going away and preparing the industry for Google Chrome’s shift away towards alternatives. But when push finally came to shove, and Google rolled out a definitive timeline, the backlash was swift. Here on NameHero, we were one of the first to call […]

With Google’s latest “Page Experience” update, a lot of websites that heavily invested in AMP are going to find the return on that investment severely diminished. This is for two reasons. First, the emergence of the various facets of page speed as ranking factors has propelled website owners to pay a lot of attention to […]