Bostonian Adam

Author: BostonianAdam

  • Testing your web site in different web browsers and mobile devices

    When building your web site, at some point you should test how your site looks in different web browsers and mobile devices. To do this all you need is the Google Chrome web browser. Follow the steps below to test your site. The below steps were written while using Chrome version 33.0.1750.154. Future updates of…

  • Enhance SEO for your WordPress blog

    WordPress by itself does a good job with SEO (search engine optimization) but you can make improvements to help your site with SEO as there are some nice free WordPress plugins to do this for you. I’ll go over the two plugins I use to help with SEO and getting indexed by search engines. The…

  • Helpful resources including free icons, Google Analytics tips and email stats – December 2013

    I meant to post this sooner but here are links to articles I found interesting and they can most likely help you with your web sites. Have Webmail Users Gone Mobile? 40 Free Flat Icons Every Designer Should Have Google Analytics Hostname Report – Great for Troubleshooting – This is very helpful in Google Analytics…

  • Display RSS feed contents as HTML using ASP

    In a project I was working on, I needed to show the five latest items in an RSS feed as HTML on an ASP website. I found an ASP script online (sorry I cannot find the URL where I found it at this time) and I modified it for my needs. Here’s the ASP code…

  • Select all checkboxes with jQuery

    So you have a form on your web site and you want to add a way for a user to select all checkboxes for one of your questions in the form. Here’s an easy way to do just that using jQuery. Use the Javascript and HTML code below. HTML and Javascript code with the function…

  • Sharing resources: Few free good resources – September 2012

    This is a quick post where I just wanted to make others aware of these cool free tools and resources available. Smashing Magazine blog post about using Opera’s Mobile Emulator to test how web sites look on mobile. The article has a link to where you can download the emulator. Mobilizer, a free Adobe Air…

  • Hello world!

    Yup, hello everyone! This is the first post on my tech and life blog here at BostonianAdam.com. I have an old blog over at Blogger that I’ve had for years, where I’ve posted about anything I’m interested in, but I haven’t used it in quite some time. With this blog, I’m hoping to use it…