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Increase Your Comments and Links by Holding a Contest
I, like most people, love contests for free stuff. They sucker draw me in every time. If you are running a tech website or blog it can be very easy to come up with ideas for prizes to give away, simply look for the latest computer gadget or addon that ...
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Being a Webmaster is like Changing Dirty Diapers!
I have two beautiful children, Matthew who is almost four and Erica who is going to be two in December. I rejoiced when my son was finally potty trained, and if things go like we expect my little girl will be out of diapers sooner than my son. It meant ...
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StripeMania - Make Stripes the Easy Way!
Stripes seem to becoming popular again in designs. I have not used stripes in a web design for awhile, but after discovering StripeMania I might have to consider trying a design with stripes again. StripeMania is probably the easiest tool I have ever used to create a seamless striped image. I ...
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How To Add a Custom Welcome Based on Referrer
I recently added a little snippet of PHP to Video Rambler to welcome people that were coming from StumbleUpon with a custom welcome. The website recently got Stumbled again and one of the people that gave the site a thumbs up stated: I only gave it thumbs up bc I'm ...
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Blog Rush - Consider This
Every blog I visited last night and today, including Shoemoney, Dosh Dosh, Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim and John Chow, had something written about Blog Rush. What is it? Blog Rush is a new javascript widget that you can place on your blog to display the latest headlines from other blogs ...
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I'm a Crazy Egg Winner!
Now I can't say I never win anything. I submitted a comment in Smashing Magazine's Anniversary Developer's Tools Giveaway post and my name was drawn! I have been wanting to try Crazy Egg, but have not gotten around to it with everything else that has been going on. I will have ...
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Javascript Validation
I am always on the lookout for new ways to improve the websites I create and one of the best ways I have found to improve user input is to use Javascript to validate the data before sending it to the server. I recently came across not one, but two ...
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UbuntuXP
I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop and laptop here at my office/home and I really enjoy using it, but as a web developer I need to create websites that work in more than just Firefox on Linux. While I have a membership at BrowserCam, it is much faster sometimes ...
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JenSense Google Referral Wishlist
JenSense has a great wishlist of things she would like changed in Google AdSense Referrals. It is a great list, and I have to agree with her points. I have only used Google AdSense Referrals a few times, but I got so frustrated with the back button that I just ...
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A Beginners Guide to Affiliate Networks
I was having a discussion with a client a couple of weeks ago about affiliate marketing and what programs might suit their website the best and gave them a great deal of information about some of the affiliate networks that I have experience with. These are the networks that I ...