An alternative to lazy loader using the jquery load method for external images
by gio on October 18, 2011
Well I was googling again and again looking for a jquery lazy loader. Unfortunately there is nothing out there. Just the old fashion script which actually doesn’t work properly in modern browsers as Mika says on his website.
Well I had some photo galleries which have from 20 to even 60 images to load. That is a really big problem for the end user as well as for Google (SEO thinking). As you already know Google pays attention at the time a webpage needs to be loaded. That’s actually the reason that Google added the track page load time parameter to his latest additions in Google analytics script. Read the rest of this entry »
Hide You Tube, Vimeo videos with CSS and jQuery, IE bug
by gio on September 22, 2011
Hello, lastly I was working as a member of Stereotropism team on a new project which will be on air sometime within September. I can only give the name of it, “Brand Father”. I will do post the link once the site goes live (here you go it’s live now www.brandfather.gr).
So I was working on a media gallery which actually is on the article detailed page. The concept is to have as many videos (either you tube or vimeo iframes) plus a bunch of images under the same media gallery.
Foreign Bear Studio has a new website
by gio on July 31, 2011
Hello from Greece, temperature is about 35-38 degrees Celsius, that’s a 95 degrees in Fahrenheit, however life still goes on here at Stereotropism studio. We are excited to work on interesting projects and one of these was just completed .
Umbraco CMS no node exists with id ‘-21′ bug
by gio on July 11, 2011
I need to share that with you,
I was uploading media using a useful plugin gecko uploadify for Umbraco CMS. Suddenly the Media folder gets empty and all nodes disappeared. I get frustrated because I never realised how this happened. I tried to clear sessions log in again but still no children under the media folder.
Colorbox with Google maps
by gio on June 8, 2011
Hello,
Any time I needed a lightbox effect for my projects I end up with colorbox.
It’s really easy to install it to your project, stable and not really heavy, supports all normal functionality and follows W3C standards.
Selene restaurant website just launched
by gio on April 25, 2011
It’s been less than a week that we finished our latest project for Selene Reastaurant – www.selene.gr
Selene restaurant, based in Santorini, Greece, opened back in 1986. From the very beginning, Selene tried to promote the local products along with the local cuisine. Recently they decided to redesign their website, so they assigned the work to the Stereotropism team.
Google search url parameters, track your visitors
by gio on April 11, 2011
Some of you maybe have noticed some long referrer urls coming specially from Google. All these URLs are coming from organic searches. Google have made many information visible to us and that’s really help SEO guys to teach theirselves and their clients interesting things.
zeroin.gr redesign
by gio on March 12, 2011
We’re all very proud to announce the zeroin.gr total redesign. zeroin will be redevoloped and new features, sections will be added. Marilena from stereotropism did her best to rebirth zeroin. A new fresh design is ready and now it’s my turn to start making our ideas a real world project. Actually this is the third redesign within the last 6 years.
Real time user monitor statistics
by gio on February 11, 2011
Recently I made a research in order to find some useful tools for a new website I was going to work in. Actually I was looking for two specific things, first was how to improve SEO and then how to monitor user activity.
I ended up with two very useful tools one for SEO which I am going to talk to another post and the other was about real time user activity monitor. It’s really important for me to see how users interact with a couple of elements in my website.
Restore an SQL 2008 .bak file to my local SQL 2008 server
by gio on August 24, 2010
I know for some of you it sounds like an easy and straightforward process, however, I found it challenging and that’s why I decided to share it with you.
I get a backup file from our live server “database_name_634182143083281212.bak” and downloaded locally. Then I open the SQL 2008 management studio and create an empty database called “my_new_database”.