Archive for June, 2007

How to block access to your site by referrer

Do you have traffic coming from a source that you’d prefer not to be associated with? Is there a forum hotlinking to one of your images and using up your bandwidth? Fortunately there’s a pretty easy way to block these connections with a small text file called .htaccess.

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How to keep links in your SMF news box from opening new windows

I like the News Box on top of the Simple Machines Forum pages. It’s a great feature, and an easy way to share important information with your users. The only problem I found is that when you use the [url][/url] BBC tags it creates a link that opens to a new window and [...]

Adsense now supporting rounded corners

You now have a new option when you setup your Adsense ads. The ad blocks can have rounded corners.
Original Square Corners

New Slightly Rounded Corners

New Very Rounded Corners

I would imagine it’ll take a few days for statistics to come out on which of these performs the best overall, and like everything else you’re going to [...]

Simple Machines 1.1.3 Released

Looks like it’s primarily a bug fix.
From the SMF Forums.
In this release, a few small security issues have been addressed. Also, a few bugs that were found have been fixed.
We urge all users to upgrade to SMF 1.1.3 as soon as possible to take advantage of these fixes. A summary of the fixes is as [...]

phpBB3 Release Candidate 2 Released

The second release candidate of phpBB3 is now available for download. More information on this release can be found at the phpBB forum.

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