What is A.M.P?

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Amp stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, small sites should not worry about create an AMP version of your site, however, it is recommended to use amp when launching a new site. AMP is a scaled down version of your site, intended for mobile pages, tables, cell phones. Your AMP page, if you have one already, loads, opens up quickly on portables. Most people now a days access the web via some sort of portable device, so creating an amp version of your site is strongly recommended, however, as I stated above, small sites should not worry about deploying AMP. Most websites developers use either WordPress or Drupal to create web pages, these content management systems create a mobile friendly version of you site.

However, if your site is large, you should & must look into using AMP, a scaled down version of your site loads quickly on mobile devices. 2018 seems to be the year of speed, the faster your site loads, the more likely people will interact with your site, will sate and explore your company site because it is fast, so start having an AMP version of your site, if you are not familiar with AMP technology, hire a developer. Speed, speed is a major part of your web strategy, no matter what services or products you offer, especially if you are running an e-commerce site, you should have an AMP version of your site.

Recently, as of April 2018, Google started showing pages that have AMP technology deployed on their websites, meaning, if you have a version of your site that is mobile friendly or uses AMP, that page shows first on Google Results pages, if you don’t have an AMP version of your page, it defaults to your desktop version, so it is strongly recommended to start using AMP in 218, moving forward, more and more people access the web, your site via mobile, tablets. AMP is here to stay!

Conclusion, if your site is small and uses WordPress or Drupal, both of these systems automatically have a mobile version of your site, however, if your site is big, large, you should start using AMP, that means, have a scale version of your web page, targeted to your mobile users, especially if you rely on customers that have mobile devices, ipas or tables. Again, people want pages to load fast, open quick, make a purchase fast, order something fast, AMP is the answer to  fast loading mobile pages, fast loading pages on tablets.

 

Backpage shut down, 5 best alternatives to backpage

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The FBI, as you may already know, has shut down backpage site.Here are 5 best alternative, or close to looking like backpage, for free classified ads.Type the follosing in Google.

  • Bedpage
  • Want Ad Digest
  • Doublelist Classifieds
  • Search for: Free Classifieds Sites, you get a nice list.
  • Oodle
  • ebackpage, appers to be under going maitenance

 

5 things you need to do in order to speed up your website in 2018

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People like me, or anybody that browses the internet for knowledge, school, watching videos, posting content, we like the sites to load up fast, very fast, we do not have time to wait & wait, 2018 appears to be the year of fast loading web sites content, really fast. if you own a website, or you are the administrator of it  here are 5 things you need to do to speed up your page in 2018!

  •  Find a good hosting provider, I strongly recommend x10hosting.
  • Use CloudFlare to your site, it also is a good tool for keeping hackers away. Please note that it will not work if you have SSL on your site.
  • Keep your images at one size for all your posts, i suggest you set it to 640×480, unless you a magazine style website.
  • Do not include external files, such as calling CSS or JS from other servers, keep them local to your domain, fine if they are hosted on a cloud server
  • No hosting of images from other servers, Instagram, Pinterest, avoid using iframes!

I hope you take this tips into consideration, check your web site speed.

 

Images not being generated by drupal 7 & 8

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Let’s cut this to the chase

Here is what you need to do:

open your settings.php file and add these two lines at the very bottom, that’s what i did and worked out for me both in Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.

 

$config['image.settings']['allow_insecure_derivatives'] = TRUE;
$config['image.settings']['suppress_itok_output'] = TRUE;


 


The issue is when you attach an image field to your content type, you hit the submit button, then when viewing your node, the image is broken, you try to change the folders permission but you are stuck with the problem, in the ftp tree, there is no folders being generated! Then you check your log files, you see access denied, you click on the link and indeed you get an access denied when opening the image..


This issue of the image not being displayed or folders not being generated on the fly, is on the hosting provider, i could be wrong here I say it because I have Drupal 7 & 8 hosted on Namecheap and i have no issues with them. Drupal works fine, images are being generated and folder permissions is set to 775, no issues at all.


However, we have an account with x10hosting & here is where the problem arises with them, the images are not generated by drupal on the fly. Folder permission is 755, the image styles are not generated, so the solution is, as mentions, just place the code above in your settings.php file, upload it to your server & you should have no further issues. Here is a long discussion and other ways to solve your issue if the above code does not work!

			

	

					



							


	

	
Elementor Nows Obeys Child Themes
		
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How sweeet is that! Now I do not need to hack the canvas.php template, which is located under the plugins folder. Liking Elementor 2.x so far, this is indeed very cool, & it should also respect the header.php file too, unfofirm yet. Prior to version 2, I had to hack that canvas.php in order to meet my needs, no more!

			

	

					



							


	

	
Raw Tomato Eating
		
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Eating Tomatoes as raw, wow, i never knew it is waaay better eating it than cooking, boiling it. If you are not eating tomatoes as raw, start doing it, help prevent conditions like bone loss, cancer, diabetes, kidney stones, stroke, heart attack & obesity, yup, now go and eat a raw tomato while you check out the latest on Casita


 

			

	

					



							


	

	
Hello world!
		
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