Category: Digital marketing


  • The best reference for the design of fast web sites is, IMHO, Steve Souders‘s book on front end optimization. He recommends the following best practices: Rule 1 – Make Fewer HTTP Requests Rule 2 – Use a Content Delivery Network Rule 3 – Add an Expires Header Rule 4 – Gzip Components Rule 5 –…

  • webmaster desktop (Photo credit: FSA 2006-07) Do you know how to check if your web page respect web design standards and best practices? If no, the following web page provides a great checklist, which permits you to verify (or discover) if you have designed your website correctly:  http://webdevchecklist.com/ It may be a good idea too…

  • Html-source-code (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ttidy is a famous toolset for validating HTML and XML content. It identifies mistakes, and corrects them auto-magically. To use it from python, you can use pytidylib: sudo apt-get install tidypip install pytidylib   Or alternatively easy_install pytidylib   Or if you are behind a proxy: pip install pytidylib –proxy “prxy:port”…

  • English: Gmail registration screenshots فارسی: عکس‌های برگه ثبت‌نام جی‌میل (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Django registration module is quite handy whenever you need some users to, well, registrate to your website… In this post, I will explain you how to install and configure it for your web app. To install django registration module: easy_install -Z django-registration The…

  • Debian OpenLogo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) English: Nginx Logo Español: Logo de Nginx (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This post explains how to install nginx and gunicorn for django under linux Debian. From my readings, nginx should be used to serve static files. Nginx should proxy all other requests to gunicorn. These two tools are easy to install…

  • tumblr google webmaster tools sitemap (Photo credit: GioSaccone) Sitemaps are useful to indicate to websearch engines the list of the pages on your site / blog. Thus, it is a good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practice to provide the sitemaps of your site to the main search engines. If you use blogger, the sitemap URLs…

  • Meta tags are useful for search engine optimization purposes: they associate key words to a website. For instance, if your blog is about cooking, you may want to add meta tags such as “recipes, cooking, bakery, cup cakes” to your blog. This will help google, yahoo, bing, etc to recognize the topics of interest on…

  • How to convert HTML code to Text with Python (solved) There are several tools to convert html to text (html2text) in python. My favorite is beautiful soup. Under linux systems, you install the beautiful soup python module with the following two commands: easy_install beautifulsoup4easy_install html5lib Then, in your source code, you can call beautiful soup…