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A visitor counter is easy to add and easy to regret. Here is what one actually counts, where it helps, where a small number costs you, and how to set one up properly.
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How to Create a Corner Pop-up for Your Website
A corner pop-up is the version of this pattern that does not block the page. Here is what it is for, when to trigger it, how to keep it usable on a phone, and what actually matters when choosing software to build one.
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How ToHow to Create an Online Petition Form for Your Website
A petition needs signatures, and signatures need a form people trust. Here is how to build an online petition form on your own site, what fields to ask for, and how to keep the data clean.
How ToHow to Create an RSS Feed for Your Website
Publishing a feed is how your content travels to readers, apps and other websites. Here is how to create an RSS feed, what belongs in it, and how to check it is valid before you publish it.
WidgetsHow to Add a Restaurant Menu to Your Website
A menu is the most-read page on a restaurant site and usually the worst maintained. Here is how to publish one that is readable on a phone, quick to update when prices change, and not a PDF.
How ToHow to Add a LinkedIn Feed to Your Website
LinkedIn publishes no feed and gates its API, so the usual embedding advice does not apply. Here are the routes that actually work, and what each one costs you.
How ToHow to Create a Job Application Form for Your Website
A job application form decides who applies and who gives up halfway. Here is what to ask, what to leave out, and what has to happen after somebody presses submit.
How ToHow to Embed a PDF in Canva
There are three different things people mean by embedding a PDF in Canva. Here is which one you need, what Canva will accept, and what to do when it will not.
Web DevelopmentHow to Add Code Snippets to Your Website
Code on a web page needs highlighting, a readable theme, and a copy button that works. Here is how to display snippets properly, and the settings that actually matter.
How ToHow to Add a Pomodoro Timer to Your Website
A pomodoro timer is a small thing to build and an easy thing to build badly. Here is what the technique needs, what the settings should be, and how to put one on a page.
How ToHow to Add a YouTube Feed to Your Website
YouTube does publish a feed, which makes this easier than most platforms. The decisions that matter are whether to show a channel or a playlist, and what the player costs your page.
How ToHow to Add a Donation Button to Your Website
A donation button is the shortest path between someone wanting to help and actually helping. Here is how to set one up, and the choices that decide whether it gets used.
How ToHow to Add a Website Translator to Your Website
A translator widget makes your pages readable to visitors who do not share your language. It does not make you findable in theirs. Here is the difference, and how to do both.
How ToHow to Add a Music Player to Your Website
Putting music on a website is easy. Getting the hosting, the licensing and the autoplay rules right is the part that decides whether it works and whether you are allowed to.
How ToHow to Add a Tumblr Feed to Your Website
Tumblr is one of the last platforms that still hands you an open feed. The work is not getting the content, it is deciding what to do with posts that are not all the same shape.
How ToHow to Add Capterra Reviews to Your Website
Capterra reviews are written by buyers who evaluated software the way your prospects are evaluating yours. Here is how to get them onto your own site, and where they actually change a decision.
How ToHow to Add Google Play Reviews to Your Website
Your app store rating is the number that decides whether a visitor installs. Here is how to show Google Play reviews on your own site, and what the Play Console gives you to work with.
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