2012 The Year of Rich Snippets

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Haven’t heard of rich snippets? You’ll hear about them a lot this year as Google continues to roll out enhanced search results using microdata that you publish. Microdata is data that is hidden or indicated within the code of the page that has additional information about the topic… but it doesn’t change how your page appears. Historically, Google has supported three different standards for structured data markup: microdata, microformats, and RDFa. Rather than supporting competing formats, Google is encouraging one standard from schema.org. Bing and Yahoo! also accept the standard. … Continue reading

JavaScript: Dynamically Generated Time List

I’m not a programmer, but I get to program quite a bit. Today it was for an interface prototype where we would dynamically generate a list dropdown with times at 5 minute intervals. These time ranges can change based on the day selected (imagine selecting a date to return times to set an appointment… each day would have different times available). Rather than having to create the list manually, I utilizing some looping techniques with JavaScript to dynamically generating the list. Simply put in your ‘from’ and ‘to’ times using … Continue reading

I just sent $1000 to Noah!

Sorry for the late run on this! We sent a list of the entries to Ade with each entry having a random number associated (using the RAND function in Excel and then sorting the column). We then had Hannes select a random number within the 108 entries so Hannes would not know who the winner would be. The winner of the $1,000 giveaway was Noah at wpstar.com! To cover the Paypal transaction costs, I actually sent $1,040 to Noah! Congratulations Noah! The rest of the prizes will be on their … Continue reading

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