Panagiotis Tzamtzis - Digital analytics consultant & Web developer

Smart app banner for IOS

Smart App Banner for your website to promote your iTunes app

Instead of using an ugly custom link that points the visitors to your iTunes application now you can use a new proprietary meta tag from Apple that displays a smart app banner on the top of the page. The meta tag triggers a uniform advertisement for a vendor’s iOS app within mobile Safari. Smart App Banners vastly improve users’ browsing experience compared to other promotional methods. As banners are implemented in iOS 6, they will provide a consistent look and feel across the web that users will come to recognize. Users will trust that tapping the banner will take them to...

How to Solve Magento 500 Internal Server Errors

Many users encounter some weird Magento 500 Internal Server Errors (Error type 500). I will try to list the most common solutions. These errors are not always caused by the same reason. You should try to take a look at your server's error logs to get some help about this error. Here are the most common ways to solve these kind of errors.

Cufon - Fonts for the people

Cufon text does not appear in Internet Explorer

In case you encounter any problems with your site's cufonized fonts try to update you rendering engine to the latest version. On October 24 they released released version 1.09i, which is the same as 1.09 but IE9-compatible. Keep in mind that you do not need to convert your font generated files again, just replace your old cufon-yui.js with a new one and you're good to go.

Access the new Facebook profile and other updates first

Facebook (like other websites) usually gives access to new features to developers first. The new profile update is called "Timeline" and is a major re-imagining of user profiles that allows users to build what’s essentially a visual scrapbook of everything they’ve done on the site. If you want to get early access of the new changes you can just follow the steps below: