You don’t have to be a professional website designer or developer. If you own a website, sooner or later you will find yourself having to copy and paste certain code snippets over and over.
These can be anything. Such as:
- The code for a popular affiliate program’s banners.
- Opt-in form code. I do this a lot. Copying a very basic no frills or design HTML form code. When I need this anywhere, I pull it up on Evernote, copy, paste and work in the design.
- Codes for your own banner ads
- Analytics tracking codes
- Standard codes for your copyright footers
Not good with HTML or CSS? All the more reason, you should save these codes in Evernote. Copy and paste from existing codes or get someone to write them for you then put them in a note. To give you an idea, here are a few type of codes you should be saving.
- Code to add an image
- Code to create a linked image
- Code to create a redirect (using .htaccess, HTML, or PHP)
- CSS code to change a text color, font or font-size
- HTML special character codes – these will help you create things like ©, ™, &spade; ¢, and ®
- Simple Javascript codes
- Iframe codes
- Table codes
In short, just about any type of code that you find yourself re-using over and over. Quit searching high and low on your computer or Internet for them. Add them to Evernote. If the note gets really large, you can always move it to a notebook of its own or just use tags for easy search and retrieval.
There’s just one caveat. Evernote is meant to store text like a word processor. Sometimes it will mess up your code, particularly when you’re copying from it into a Visual Editor online or in WordPress. To make sure you get the best results, copy and paste it into a plain text editor first before copying it from the plain text editor to your content management system.
