If you have an active Facebook business page, you can use your posts to that Facebook page to make your website more active too. It is useful to be able to mirror the last couple of Facebook posts to your website. Previously, Facebook did not require that you apply for any special permissions to read […]
Creating a simple progressive web app from scratch
The earlier post Creating a simple Progressive Web App (PWA) with .Net Core explains the benefits of PWAs and how to use .Net Core and the NuGet package WebEssentials.AspNetCore.PWA to simplify creating a PWA. However, it is easy enough to create a PWA without recourse to any package. This post shows how to create from […]
Creating a simple Progressive Web App (PWA) with .Net Core
Progressive web apps or PWAs can replace many native apps. Depending on your device, you can cache content, take photos, detect photos, recognize speech, use geolocation services, and many other features of devices just using Html 5 and javascript. The app, once created, can then be installed on any device without changing the code and […]
Testing iphone web page loads without using the cache
As a volunteer on a club website, I learned that some users could not load the club home page. I had no trouble loading the home page on my Windows 10 PC with any browser. However, when I tested it on my Iphone, I was redirected to another page. Two HTTP GETs to load the […]
Spam Comments and Google Analytics
If you are monitoring your Google Analytics, you probably have seen pages that get more comments than page views! At first, I thought this was impossible, that you can’t write a comment without first opening the page. But, It turns out that you can write a comment in WordPress without ever opening the page. In […]