It is easy to embed a YouTube video but you’ll be surprised to know how much extra weight a single YouTube video embed can add to your web pages. The browser has to download ~800 kB of data (see screenshot) for rendering the YouTube video player…
Businesses and schools worldwide are using Google Forms to build COVID-19 self-declaration forms that employees, students and visitors must complete every day before they can attend work. Here is a sample COVID-19 Health Screening Form – if the…
Google Apps Script makes it is easy for you to integrate data and functionality from Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, YouTube, and most other Google APIs. Apps Script is JavaScript under the hood so you don’t have to learn a new language and you don…
The Twitter Archiver and the Twitter Bots app fire each time a new tweet is found that match your search query. You can write simple search queries (like #Oscars ) or more complex query (like obama min_retweets:10 filter:news ) that uses one or…
The XML Sitemap file is like a directory of all web pages that exist on your website or blog. Google, Bing and other search engines can use these sitemap files to discover pages on your site that their search bots may have otherwise missed during…
There are three dates associated with any web page that is public on the Internet: #1. The publication date – this is the date when an article or web page is first uploaded on to a public website where humans and search engines can find and access…
It is easy to upload videos to your own YouTube channel but there’s one limitation. Only the owner of the channel can upload videos to their YouTube account and they cannot delegate the task to someone else in the team. Google Drive has the concept…
With Google Drive, you can store files in the cloud and share them easily with anyone. Open any file in Google Drive, click the Share button and you’ll get a URL (link) that others can use to access your file. This is common knowledge but Google…
The Google Form Notifications add-on sends the form data in an email message each time a respondent submits your Google Form. It can also send automated emails to the form respondent confirming that their response has been received. Push…
The web has made it incredibly easy for anyone to sell digital products directly to customers through websites, social media, and email newsletters. You can sell PDF ebooks, event tickets, MP3 music , photos, gift cards, software apps , license…