Rob Gravelle

What is SEO and Why it’s Important You’ve come up with a promising business idea, spent months designing and building your site, and submitted your URL to the major search engines. Now, all that’s left to do is to wait for visitors to discover your site and spread the word! After a few months of […]

Open Source CMS Pros and Cons – a Developer’s Perspective The phrase “Open Source CMS” lingers in the minds and hearts of many developers. CMSes are today’s talk of the Internet, and you won’t miss the discussion in local schools and private offices either. I don’t remember for how long I have used Open Source […]

A Few Essential WordPress Skills to Better Manage your Website Since its initial launch in 2003, WordPress has grown into one of the most popular open source content publishing systems around. Maybe that’s because, even with hardly any knowledge of CSS, PHP, HTML and JavaScript, WordPress can help you create an impressive site. Having said […]

What’s New in Angular 2: Versioning, Features, and Components Angular, or AngularJS as it’s officially known, is a front-end structural framework for dynamic web app development. It utilizes HTML as a template language which it then extends to define an application’s components. The Angular framework provides data binding and dependency injection that minimizes the amount […]

How to Install Google Analytics Code on a WordPress Site – A beginner’s Guide By Rob Gravelle with Lisa Smith What is Google Analytics? Step #2: Add the Tracking Code to Your WordPress Blog Log in to your WordPress website. Please note that this installation is not for blogs hosted on the official website of […]

Practical Guidelines for Monetizing your Website using Referrals When I was younger, I used to dream about touring the world and playing music in front of thousands of people. Over time, this dream morphed into a somewhat more grounded one where I spend my days recording and supplementing my income by writing articles on my […]

The Top Three Most Common WordPress Errors – and How to Fix Them Overall, WordPress (WP) is a great content publishing system, but it’s not perfect. In my humble opinion, WP’s worst flaw is its error handling. Perhaps it’s because WP is built using PHP, which is an interpreted language. In any event, even the […]

Make Site Content Available Offline using Service Workers When the AppCache was first released a couple of years ago, it offered a means of providing (some of) a website’s content offline. It was a great idea, but for several reasons, it made a less-than-stellar impression on web developers. Now there’s a new player called the […]

Asynchronous Programming in ECMAScript 6 TC39 is the organization in charge of standardizing JavaScript (or ECMAScript to be exact). They meet every two weeks, usually in the California Bay area, to discuss the ECMAScript specification and where it’s heading. The 6th edition, officially known as ECMAScript 2015, was finalized in June 2015, and is widely […]

Working with Android’s In-memory JSONObject These days, JSON is considered to be a superior data exchange format to XML due to its lighter weight. As it happens, Android provides several specialized classes for parsing JSON. These have been around ever since API level 1 (the first Android release)! In today’s article, we’ll learn how to […]

Create a Django Python Project with PyDev The World Wide Web has helped propel certain programming languages to the forefront while relegating others to the brink of obscurity. Guido van Rossum’s Python language is a perfect example of a language that has thrived in the realm of web development. Eventually Python gave rise to an […]

Building Mobile Web Apps in the Cloud Developers who are reluctant to develop the same application for multiple platforms have embraced mobile web apps. In cases where the app needs access to phone features, hybrid apps provide a good compromise. Now, there’s a new option that promises even quicker turn-around times called Cloud-based app development. […]