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Darren Rowse from ProBlogger is offering bloggers the opportunity to join him in the “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” challenge.
The project starts on 1 April and it looks like future projects will continue the biennial vein which has been created by the space in-between the previous challenges.
You do not need to register to [...]
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WordPress has come a long way in the past couple of years. The amount of usage has increased considerably and it is now the blogging platform of choice for many big online names.
As the WordPress monster grows, so does the community surrounding it. Plug in developers and theme designers are all around, but what if [...]
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If you are a user of AdSense on your blog/website and have performed any kind of research into how to get the most out of the adverts, you will no doubt have come across the argument that “less is more”.
The thought process behind this strategy is that the fewer the number of ads placed on [...]
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Matt Cutts is a big wig at Google. He is head of the Google Webspam team and acts as the visual interface between the big G and bloggers, webmasters, SEO’ers, marketers and everyone else who is interested in benefiting from being online.
Matt’s blog is essential reading for a lot of people as he mostly writes [...]
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jCrop is a jQuery plugin that allows your users to easily crop their photos to whichever size they choose.
It is very easy to set up this on your sever and Brenley Dueck has created a great screencast to guide you through the whole process.
Screencast Source : NETTUTS
Editing software mentioned in the screencast : Aptana
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Andy Budd has announced on his blog that he will be running a CSS Mastery workshop in Brighton on 16th June 2009.
CSS Mastery is the title of a book written by Andy which covers CSS in great detail. The workshop is an extension of the book and will feature many updated tips and tricks and [...]
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Online communities have become an invaluable resource for many people who wish to learn more about programming, web development, online marketing and many other web based topics. There are a lot of people around who wish to share their knowledge and just as many people who wish to benefit from other peoples’ experiences.
Smashing Magazine has [...]
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Shortcodes have been part of the WordPress API (Application Programming Interface) since version 2.5 (currently 2.7) and can make a bloggers life much easier!
In order to know how to use WordPress shortcodes you do need to have some understanding of PHP coding, but having an understanding of PHP will enable to you get more from [...]
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It has been a long time coming, and for some, the wait continues, but for others the ability to link together Google Analytics and Google AdSense is no longer a dream!
Over the past few weeks Google has been allowing webmasters to link their AdSense account with their Analytics account. I have seen the notice [...]
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Google has announced a series of online webinars for users of their AdWords program.
Each webinar lasts for about an hour and gives you the oppurtunity to ask members of the Google team those questions you really need answers to, and learn to how to get more from your AdWords marketing.
In order to be eligible for [...]
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The first thing you are probably asking yourself is “what is virtual blight?” – I did too.
The simple answer is that it is all of those things that people do to try to screw your site to get links – post spam comments, create user pages with spam links or server hacks where malicious code [...]
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I have been doing a bit of blog reading today and thought I would share some of the articles I have been looking at.
32 Invaluable Sites for Web Design Ideas
I don’t think you can have enough sites in your boomarks to fall back on when you need inspiration for design ideas. There are hundreds of [...]
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Photo – allaboutgeorge
Yes that’s right, it’s all about accessibility. Accessibility is the new accessory for the web 2.0 era. This is now a critical factor in web design both on the level of aesthetics (virtual ergonomic functionality) and coding. But I hear you say isn’t accessibility a rather dull concern that stipulates functionality over form, [...]
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There are a lot of books about blogging around these days. Most of them will cover the same topics – which blogging platform best meets your requirements, the importance of defining your own voice and creating a style, finding a niche, attracting an audience, building a readership, staying up to date with online developments and [...]
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.net magazine has published an interesting article about the legal issues web designers are likely to face during their career.
The article covers issues such as contracts, infringing patents, Trade Marks or other intellectual property. It also covers the legal issues around the Data Protection Act and the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act and has been [...]
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Photo – Tawheed Manzoor
You might think all of the best domain names have been snapped up by now. You are probably right, after all, people have been buying domain names for years. When domain names were first made available there was a rush by investors (aka domainers) to snap them up as they knew how [...]
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Photo : alexindigo
Everybody has got to start somewhere. And when you have just started your own website or blog, you really are on the bottom rung of the ladder. The climb up the ladder is going to be long and hard and it will require a lot of time, dedication and thought.
I would say that, [...]
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Photo by quantumdtell
If you have spent any amount of time online looking for software you will know what a tiresome task it can be.
Whenever I see a piece of software I may be able to use I usually enter the name of the software and the word “review” into a search engine to see what [...]
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How to comment out lines in a .htaccess file
by Stephen on March 3, 2009
The .htaccess file is extremely powerful. It can be used to perform a whole range of tasks on an Apache web server.
One of the most important tasks it performs is to inform search engines that a particular file (which may be highly ranked with search engines) has been moved to another location – this [...]
Tagged as: .htaccess, 301, 302, Advice, apache, comment out, redirects, tutorial
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