World Statistics

This is going to be a praise post for gapminder.com
I’m going over the data at the site and its amazing stuff,
the main page has lots of statistics which is shown in a new way,
the gapminder app shows the data at what i think is a 4 dimension way,
it shows x and y axis [...]

Improving Your WebSite Performance

Why is my site slow?
Why is my Bounce Rate so high?
How to improve my site’s performance?
These are some of the questions bothering web masters and site owners all the time,
here are some tools and readme’s that will:

test your site
find bottle necks
measure performance from the outside
get tips for fixing the problem areas in your site
and knows [...]

The Best Wiki Ever: WikiMapia

So I though I realy love Wordpress,
But lately I get to see more and more sites based on wiki,
and I’m realy impressed with what wiki apps can offer.
In my post about implementing wiki I have given some samples of regular sites using wiki as their CMS (Content Management System), but this map site i’ve found [...]

Free Wordpress Theme Builder

This site: http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/ has a simple free wordpress theme builder that anyone can use,
just update the settings via a nice form on the left side,
with the different options like background and sidebars settings,
you can choose if you want a right side bar,
how the left side bar should look, and you can choose which widgets to [...]

Implementing MediaWiki

My favorite type of wiki is mediawiki,
I love the ease of use, the huge matrix of extensions available,
and the look and feel of the wiki itself.
backup, restore and upgrade support are also very important reasons to choose a specific wiki software,
and having gone through all this steps in mediawiki, I am very pleased with the [...]