URL Shortener Installed

Spent a frustrating couple of hours yesterday installing YOURLS onto my website, although the end result was actually quite satisfying. YOURLS is a PHP based URL shortener (along the lines of bit.ly and tinyurl) that can be installed on any webserver running PHP. The installation itself should be straightforward, but I was using Softaculous (provided on my webhost, which is…

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Website Compression

I’ve been getting a bit frustrated with the performance of this Blog for a while, so finally decided to do something about it and using Google webmaster tools it was suggested to enable compression. This seemed a bit odd because I assumed that this was probably already being done, either as a default for my server or because it would…

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Miniature Websites

It’s amazing what you can find in the Web when you’re idly surfing! Can’t even remember how I came across this little gem, but it is a little slice of Internet history it would seem (although I don’t remember hearing about it at the time). Built by Alan Outten in 2002 Guimp claimed to be the “World’s Smallest Website”… not…

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