Find out how many websites are sharing your ip address

This tool does not tell you how many websites are hosted on one box as a hosting Company can add many IP address to one server.

Link: http://www.ipneighbour.com

WordPress 3.4 Update

WordPress.org has finalized WordPress 3.4 and is planning on pushing out the update early next week.

I have tested and confirmed that both the Easy Sign Up plugin (and extras) and the Easy Heads Up Bar are working great in WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 2.

So that is one less thing for my users to worry about.

I do suggest that you back up your website’s theme, uploads, plugin files and your database before any major update.

If you need help with this we offer a WordPress no Stress back up and upgrade service, just contact me with your details and we’ll get you upgraded the right way!

Happy Easter From Greenville Web Design

When I was a kid growing up in South Africa, easter meant a great deal to my family. My Grand Parents always had a great easter feast and us kids loved my Grand ma's Hot Cross Buns. So in honor of the memory here is a recipe for SA style hot cross buns. Read more

BundleHunt Spring Mac Apps Bundle

BundleHunt Spring Bundle is here! 7 MAC Apps, for 1 Great Price. This Spring they are selling $371 worth of software for $49.

The app I am most interested in is the HTML5 and Flash animation software, MOTIONCOMPOSER by Aquafadas.

It retails for $149 so at 49 that makes it a 100 bucks off right there.

I am interested in creating an iBook using the free iBooks Author from Apple, and I plan to use the MotionComposer to create the dynamic illustrations and to add a few fun animations into the pages.

So what else are they offering?

This is off their press kit :

BundleHunt Spring Package includes 7 Best Selling Apps with an incredible discount:

RapidWeaver 5 (priced at $80) – A smart and powerful, web design software for Mac.RapidWeaver provides you with the know-how to quickly publish websites to be proud of. Building a gorgeous site is simple with RapidWeaver thanks to more than 45 included themes.

MotionComposer (priced at $149) – Create engaging interactive animations and run itanywhere! MotionComposer’s unique technology plays interactive content Flash in Web browsers that support Flash, and automatically plays a HTML5 version in browsers that don’t support Flash. Now your interactive Web content will play in any browser, includingiPhone and iPad.

FX Photo Studio PRO (priced at $40) – This app has everything you need to make photography one of a kind – loads of high quality photo effects (170 effects), pro tools to edit images, selective masking, variety of import/export tools and more.

Fantastical (priced at $20) – Plan your day in style with the most attractive calendar you’ve ever seen. Color-coding and beautiful design help you quickly make sense of your schedule.The event list and calendar allow you to easily locate and plan all of your events.

ExpanDrive (priced at $40) – ExpanDrive acts just like a USB drive plugged into your computer. Open, edit, and save files to remote computers from within your favorite programs—even when they are on a server half a world away.

KeyCue (priced at $27) – KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of all currently available menu shortcuts.You no longer need to memorize and remember key combinations; just press the command keyand KeyCue tells you what you want to know.

IconBox 2 (priced at $20) – IconBox is a helpful organizational tool for Mac. It was thefirst Icon Organizer running on Mac OS X, allowing users to conveniently organize their collection of icons in an iPhoto-like way. With version 2.5, IconBox has been completely rewritten and features a brand new interface.

Check them out @ BundleHunt Spring Bundle

Remove the WordPress welcome panel

If you find the WordPress welcome panel a tad irritating or a distraction to your WordPress clients pop this code in your themes functions file – or better yet make a plugin and put the code in that.

The welcome panel will still be accessible under the screen options panel but it will be turned off by default.

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'hide_wp_welcome_panel' );

function hide_wp_welcome_panel() { if ( current_user_can( 'edit_theme_options' ) ) $ah_clean_up_option = update_user_meta( get_current_user_id(), 'show_welcome_panel', false ); }

January started off to a bang

January started off to a bang, with the launch of two new WordPress websites for Bed and Breakfast clients.

The Fire Mountain Inn, located in Highlands NC and the Inn at Ellis River, located in Jackson NH.

Fire Mountain’s WordPress website is targeted at mobile web browsers and provides an alternative to the flash web pages. Since it’s launch the mobile site has halved the mobile browser bounce rate*

* Bounce Rate: This is the rate of visitors that enter your site, and leave within the first 5 seconds (as calculated by Google Analytics) without viewing another page.

The Inn at Ellis River’s got a full website redesign with a custom WordPress theme and custom WordPress plugins to drive features like time sensitive packages and recipes.

Video introducing WordPress 3.3

This is the official, very quick, video introducing WordPress 3.3.

The video covers:

The new Welcome Screen
New Feature Pointers
Contextual Help
The new simplified media system featuring Drag and Drop uploads
The new admin menu system with fly outs eliminating that extra click
Admin header and the tool bar has merged into one
WordPress’s admin now supports iPad’s touch interface

WordPress 3.3 is available! Please Don’t update now.

WordPress 3.3 is available and trust me it’s incredibly cool.

Compatibility Box

But don’t be tempted to update before you back up your current installation.

The not so quick and easy method is to:

Download all the files on your website

You’ll need to jump in to your ftp client to do this

Download a copy of your DataBase

Login into your website hosting account’s Control Panel
Some hosts like Godaddy have a built in system to set up a database backup. BUT
I recommend connecting to your database via phpMyAdmin and downloading a copy of your database to your desktop

If you don’t have or don’t know what phpMyAdmin is call your host and ask them how to use it

Now please check that your plugins are compatible with the new wordpress 3.x install

If all of your plugins are free go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and search for your plugins by name
Go to the plugin’s page and check in the right side column for a box called “Compatibility”