So, you’ve decided to boost your website’s SEO by adding schema markup? Here is a great article on how to do it https://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-started-using-schema/ After spending some time marking up your post, you may find that your schema markup tags were stripped by TinyMCE editor that is used by WordPress. In order to solve this problem you need to…
I like Kage WordPress theme https://wordpress.org/themes/kage/ It is minimal, fast, and elegant. Premium Kage theme has a lot more features than the free one, but sometimes you do not need all extra code when you use only one or two features like a slider or a social menu icons. Let’s take a look at how to add…
In this post I would like to share a workflow I use to install a website on my Amazon Web Services cloud server. My server configuration consists of Nginx – a server for my Node.js applications and a reverse proxy for Apache, Apache that I use for hosting websites, PHP5-FPM, MySQL database, and Postfix email…
Among WordPress themes out there, there are so called single- or one-page themes. Most of the content of the page is located on one page. Menu links are route to different sections of the page via anchors tags. The menu is created using custom anchor links like so: The corresponding part of an anchor tag…
Recently I was surprised to discover that the HKN (Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineers) website I designed in WordPress was still up and running (www.ecs.csun.edu/hkn). Back in the days I also created a couple of youtube video tutorials on how to use the website. It is a good idea to create a link…
MailChimp email marketing service now gives you an option of creating popup signup form that can be embedded on any website. When all set and done, MailChimp provides you with the following code: You can just copy and paste this code into header.php or better yet in footer.php because you want the signup form to popup when the…
This is Seafood Expert Calorie Tracker mobile phone app. The thing that distinguishes this app from other calorie tracking apps is the information about seafood: Omega-3 and Mercury content Taste and texture description Seafood facts This app also has such features as: Ability to set calorie goal Tracks calories and seafood meals over 7, 14,…
This mobile phone app can be used as a training aid for restaurant crew members. It has theoretical information about seafood, practical skills section, quiz section, and restaurant news section. It uses custom built API that fetches data from MySQL database. Data can be changed and updated on the fly. alexrusin.com/rlapp
This is mobile phone application that fetches and displays TED RSS feeds. It lets you keep up with the latest TED talks. alexrusin.com/ted
This AngularJS single page application (SPA) is coded in AngularJS. It is hosted on NodeJS Express server. This quiz app is totally dynamic. Questions are fetched and assembled on the fly from MySQL database using API written in NodeJS and hosted on the same server. Each time quiz is taken, questions are randomized and capped…