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The Four Best Free Website Speed Test Tools

After years of working on websites I’ve gathered a constantly updating list of my favorite tools. Below I’ve compiled my list of the best free website speed tests with their features. Enjoy! GTmetrix Website Speed GTmetrix is by far my favorite, it pulls data from

How to 301 redirect a pdf file in htaccess

How to 301 redirect a PDF file with mod_alias and mod_rewrite

Here’s some quick information on how to use an Apache .htaccess file to do a 301 redirect with either mod_rewrite or mod_alias. This method should also work for .doc and .docx files as well. mod_rewrite RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/old/path/file.pdf$ RewriteRule ^(.*) /new/path/file.pdf

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Free & Open Source Bug & Issues Trackers

Keeping track of issues and bugs when you’re developing a new site is a vital part of the process but a lot of project management tools don’t have a nice actionable way to work through the issues, and who really needs one more bill for

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The Best Places for Free Joomla 3 Templates

Quite often I have need of a decent template for Joomla for one reason or another. While the default template works well enough, it’s lacks a certain style I’ve come to appreciate over the years. As such, when I need a quick and decent pre-made

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Modern CSS Responsive Menu

Codrops recently made this tutorial for a modern css responsive menu with icons. It’s designed with flat colors, as seems to be the trend lately, but looks very nice. One of the great things about the tutorials from Codrops is that they tend to cover