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Free Stock Photos for Your Website
If an image is worth a thousand words then finding the right images for a website is crucial. Not everyone has the resources to buy stock photographs for every website, thankfully there are stock photo resources on the internet that make it easy to find the right image. ...
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.html Versus .php for SEO
I was asked the other day if search engines favor a .html file extension versus a .php file extension? The answer I gave the client was no, it makes no difference, search engines will index pages with both file extensions the same, but there are some things that can make ...
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SEO Friendly Directories
There are a great deal of directories out there. How do you know which ones are worth submitting your website to and which ones are not worth your time. If your goal is to increase the number of links back to your website, and possibly your PageRank, you should look ...
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Don’t Forget to Check That Older Browser
It happened to me again. I updated a site and did not go and check what it looked like in an older version of Internet Explorer on Windows 98. It does not matter how long you have been doing web updates, and how simple the updates are, somethings just do ...
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Has Digg Jumped the Shark?
I was stumbling along today and kept running across Digg stories. The first was about the "Digg mafia" spamming the Yahoo suggestion board. The second article was similar, talking about the "Digg mafia" and why it will cost Keven Rose millions. That article had an interesting graph of Digg traffic ...
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Nvu - A Tool for Novice and Experienced Webmasters
I suppose I am a little old school when it comes to writing html and css because I prefer to do it by hand. I use a decent programming editor with syntax highlighting and with tag helps, but I prefer to see the code. Not everyone is like me, so ...
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Google Ajax Wizards
I was reminded today when I visited the Google Adsense blog that Google has some interesting wizards that you can use to add ajax addons on your website. The Adsense blog was talking about a news bar, but there is also map search, video bar, video search, and book bar ...
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Hijaxing
I have been working on a website that uses Ajax calls to dynamically load content into the same page with out refreshing. One of the reasons Ajax was chosen was to create a user experience similar to a flash website. The site appears very smooth, and is as close to ...
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Blogger Label List for FTP Published Blogs
I use Blogger for this blog, mainly because it is easy to use. One of the features of the new Blogger that I like is the ability to add labels to posts, but because I publish via FTP there is no way to use the labels widget that is available ...
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WWW or Not: That is the Question?
Most people don't realize that there website can found by using both www.mywebsite.com and mywebsite.com. Why is this important? The search engines will index both the www site and the non-www site, providing the search engine an identical set of pages which could lead to a penalty. While most search ...