Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”

From Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Much like rel=”canonical” acts a strong hint for duplicate content, you can now use the HTML link elements rel=”next” and rel=”prev” to indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series.

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

TinyPNG: Smart PNG and JPEG compression

TinyPNG:
"TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files. By selectively decreasing the number of colors in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. The effect is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference in file size!"

Monday, May 30, 2016

SP2013 master page notes

Webparts in rich edit fields
  • need AjaxDelta around editable area in order to insert webparts in them (see thread: Why do my Web Part properties not show up?)
  • sometimes you just need to insert another webpartzone to be able to insert webparts in some placeholders
  • not all the html editor controls could have webparts inserted; has to do with the hidden webpartzone used for those being in PlaceHolderMain (see http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/59423/cannt-add-web-part-to-publishingwebcontrolsrichhtmlfield)

If added/removed contentplaceholders in master:
  • if you add/remove a contentplaceholder, you need to create a temporary page layout using that master page and see what changed in the head section and compare that with your existing page layouts and make similar changes;

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Configuring git to use winmerge

Using github desktop, open a Git Shell (I have it configured to use Git Bash).
Then these commands to configure merge and diff tools (assuming you have winmerge installed):

git config merge.tool winmerge --global
git config diff.tool winmerge --global


And then to use it, type this in Git Bash:

git mergetool

(reference)