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2009


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No more Google pagerank, no more worries?

Categories :: SEO

Ever since Google and SEO exploded web developers overly obsessed over page ranks. As time passed people became more and more insane over "WHAT'S YOUR PR?", "WHEN'S THE NEXT PR UPDATE?", and "I ACHIEVED x PR IN x MONTHS". Regardless of how you try to convince people not to dwell on it, people did. It was impossible, it's like trying to tell people Diet Coke is not for losing weight. Over the weekend something miraculous happened, the official dropping of PageRanks by Google. Now, no longer would you have to worry about delegating SEO time to this treachery.

2009


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Importance of Alexa Ranking

Categories :: SEO, Web Owners

I know a couple webmasters myself and they've always been obsessed with their "Alexa Ranking", and to some degree has used it to measure their success on the world wide web. Is this accurate? The short answer – No! The long answer, is possibly but based on how you use it. I'm going to break down what Alexa measures, how is it relevant for you and how you should use it.

2009


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Online Favicon Generator/Converter

Categories :: Tools, Web Design

Its not like it hasn't been done before, but here it is again, my take on the Online Favicon Generator/Converter. It was just a fun project I was working on myself. Here's a free tool for you to create, edit and save your favicon. Supporting image formats such as PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG, and ICO files. There's also some simple tools for you to make some quick edits without firing up the Ol'Photoshop. Go ahead and try it out, create your own favicon.

2009


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Favicon and what are they for?

Categories :: Uncategorized, Web Design, Web Owners

For web owners, overtime you'll notice a thing, which is not new called the favicon. You may have came across it and lightly discussed about it but have never drilled any further on it. Well I'm about to explain to you what the favicon is used for in modern web design. If you still have no clue what the favicon is, it is the little image show below.

2009


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PHP Simple Email Validation

Categories :: PHP, Scripts and Programming

When having having forms on your website one of the most common form fields is usually the user's email. To ensure you're receiving quality information and not receiving bogus spams you should validate the email to be of a real one or close enough to. Here's a quick free email validation script for those PHP lovers.

2009


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Increase traffic to your blog/website for free

Categories :: Blogging, Web Owners

When you first planned out your website or blog you thought to yourself, "WOW! This is a great idea, people will love it". After a couple weeks or months of launch your still looking at your analytic wondering why you're hovering so low in traffic. Well, here's the thing, you haven't gained momentum yet. I'll give you a general outlook of how to produce traffic for free and keep it high.

2009


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Having WordPress menu elements on non-WordPress pages

Categories :: WordPress

So you have a WordPress blog but you're also creating pages not through WordPress. You're thinking about how to incorporate your categories menu, archive menu and other elements into the other pages you're making. Well it is very simple and I'll show you exactly how.

2009


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CSS rounded corners with borders

Categories :: CSS, Tools

An upgrade has been made to my CSS rounded corners generator, now not only does it use no images, cross browser compliant but now with additional borders option. Add that all up and you have a cross browser, no image, bordered CSS rounded corners generator. Of course that name is too long so we'll just stick with the old one.

CSS rounded corners with border

2009


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PHP Image Verification aka Captcha (Basic)

Categories :: PHP, Scripts and Programming

You're making your website and you have forms. Here you are thinking, what if spam bots found my form? What if somebody submitted to my form from their own script? What should I do? Well, there's many things you can do to mitigate your worries but one of the simpler things you could do is having an image verification field in your form. Here's a basic script to generate a random code in image that bots can't read.

image verification

2009


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Inspirational minimalist web sites/web designs

Categories :: CSS, Inspiration

Here are some inspirational sites for those time when you just need a starter kick to your artistic senses.