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Problem Using jPlayer to play video works fine in Chrome and Firefox and the iPhone, but does not play in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).  In IE9 it just shows a black screen and goes back to the first frame.   Solution What seemed to fix the problem was defining  the mime types.  Simply add the [...]

One of the metrics for Search Engine Optimization is the time it takes to load a page.  With Google’s PageSpeed tool, you can see if your page is loading optimally.  One of the ways to better your page loading is by leveraging browser cache.  The article below explains it well.  What I did was a [...]

To exclude a folder from the wordpress rewrite in .htaccess, add the following line before the other RewriteConds, replacing somedir with your folder name: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(somedir|somedir/.*)$

Problem: GoDaddy makes it simple to password protect a directory.  You just go to their file manager, click on a directory, click on Permissions, fill out a user and password and you’re done.  Bad thing is that you can’t password protect anything in the public root folder.   Solution: Easiest solution is to password protect [...]

Problem: I added a wordpress blog to a website, but I still needed to get to a url that was on the same website and not part of wordpress. Search terms: wordpress mod_rewrite exception url Solution Found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6428448/rewriterule-exception-for-static-page-outside-wordpress Use: RewriteRule ^test\.htm$ – [PT,L]