five Top rated Considerations To Seo
Search Engine Optimization, a.k.a. Web optimization, is an approach by which a web site gets to be noticeable on the search engine’s radars. Thinking about the truth that there are through 4 billion publicly accessible web sites on the World-wide-web, getting noticeable when a probable client performs a search on...
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Pagination with PHP, jQuery and MySQL.
So many emails hit my inbox with readers asking me how to implement pagination with php. So i decided to put one together using Jquery, php and Mysql. It looks difficult, but its rather simple....
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2011
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Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress
Here is a list of Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress. I thought i would start this post purely because i spent most of the day trying to find a ecommerce plugin that actually works. So hopefully it helps you too! Jigoshop Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by...
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2011
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Useful PHP Snippets
As a PHP developer i’m always in the search for little snippets to add to my library. This at times so often proves useful when coding big projects and quick little functions. Snippets as such are great to add to existing CMS systems, such as WordPress, drupal or Joomla. Calculate...
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2011
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Good SEO practices – How to beat Google panda
Last week we did a post on Google panda “Has your site been Google Panda slapped?”. This week I want to share with you some ideas and practice that you can apply to your website to help improve and beat the panda! Google has released Panda update 2.2, just as...
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2011
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Leverage browser caching – Improve Page Spead
Have you seen this error in Google page speed? Leverage browser caching!! Here’s the fix Browser caching of external resources can increase loading time of a web page and decrease server load. In this article i will explain how to enable mod_expires and to improve page speed as page speed...
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Jun
2011
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4800 Australian websites hacked
One of the worst hacks ever seen. At least 4800 Australian websites have been lost with no chance of recovery following a break-in at Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT. The Attack was so bad that four of the company’s servers were deemed “unrecoverable.” “At this time, We regret...
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2011
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Has your site been Google Panda slapped?
So you’ve probably heard about the Google Panda and it’s serious panda slap. For those of you who haven’t, here is a small insight to the panda. As of 22th Feb 2011, a major update by Google on how it ranks sites was introduced! Statistics show that 12% of search...
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Apr
2011
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Sliding login panel with jQuery
Came across this great script for slide down login This script is based on a previous script “Show/Hide Login Panel with Mootools 1.2″ but now works with jQuery 1.3.2 instead of Mootools 1.2. Please note the Login and Register forms in this demo will not work “out of the box”...
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Feb
2011
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Express Mail Newsletter Template
Newsletter templates are so often hard to come by! Express Mail is a template design that caters for all businesses. The template comes with all the essential generic information and elements to get you started. Template Highlights: 5 background themes Valid XHTML Cross email compatible with all major email clients...
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Nov
2010
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Tensor – Joomla Template
Tensor is a sleek template that can fit many different websites. It can have a professional and serious appearance on it’s light version, or a more mysterious one on it’s dark side. Layout is pretty simple so the content is easy to follow. Despite it’s simplicity you’ll get enough positions...
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2010
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Levante – Corporate and Business Joomla Template
Levante is a simple, clean, minimalist and modern template suitable for business and corporate sites. You may use this template also for personal blog site. Featured * 13 Color Schemes * Active * Africa * Barbie * Cafe * Corporate blue * Grass * Green forest * Neutral * Natural...
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2010
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Aiden 1.0 – Joomla 1.5 Template
3 Column layout Joomla 1.5 template. This Joomla template has lots of parameters. Easy to change logo. Change image path to the logo and set URL and title tag too. - 2 background variations (Aqua and blue) – 2 color varations, (Pink and blue) Set top menu to Fixed (Stay...
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2010
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Scorpii – Corporate and Business Joomla Template
Scorpii is a modern and professional Joomla 1.5 template suitable for business and corporate sites. You may use this template also for personal blog site or creative portfolio....
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2010
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Azimuth – Joomla corporate template
Azimuth is a clean template best suited for business and corporate websites. It has subtle visual effects and seven different color variations, one of which will likely suit your company’s colors. It’s lightweight, yet elegant and will work even if the visitor’s browser has JavaScript disabled. A module for testimonials...
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2010
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Phoenicis – Premium Joomla Template | Download
Phoenicis is a modern and professional Joomla 1.5 template suitable for business and corporate sites. You may use this template also for personal blog site....
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2010
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Anne – Business Joomla Template | Download
Home Pages 3 different home page sliders 1. Coinslider 2. 3D Piecemaker Slider 3. News Slider Color Styles Unlimited color themes. Look here how to create new color theme. Default Anne template use 18 different color themes: * 13 Color themes 1. Blue 2. Blue sky 3. Brown 4. Dark...
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2010
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JMagic 01 – Photography Portfolio | Download
JMagic 01 is Joomla template suitable for all kinds of photo or design portfolios or personal sites, but you can use it for some other purposes as well. Photography Portfolio comes with integrated Anything Slider and K2 ContentzzMegamenu, that improved the other menu systems by giving them additional class and...
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2010
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Free High Quality Icon Sets
Its being a while since I’ve visited the boys over at smashing magazine. I can across a awesome post of 50 great new free high quality icon sets. They published their last icons round-up2 six months ago and since then they collected over 50 new free high quality icon sets...
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Nov
2010
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Hotscripts.com Clone
Create your own hotscripts.com like site, a portal of free and commercial scripts available on the net. This script is very easy to install and implement. You can also easily modify the looks of the site if you want to. It only use single template file and one css file...
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Nov
2010
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YouTube Clone Script
http://www.clipsharetemplates.com clone script allows you to run your own video sharing portal like YouTube.com, Metacafe, DailyMotion, and others The ClearWater template is a stunning and light design featuring stylish mouseover effects and will be a great addition to any video sharing website using Clipshare 4.1 Professional. The Clearwatter template utilizes...
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Oct
2010
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PHP Coupon Clone Script
Easy-to-use SEO friendly coupon script which allow you to create Discounts/Promotion Coupons web site. Earn affiliate commissions while offering discounts for your visitors! With 9 different designs you will be able to create perfect coupon web site in any niche! Add website/store with Seo title, keywords and affiliate url Activate...
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2010
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Twitter Hacked
Sydney – A 17-year-old Australian schoolboy on Wednesday said he unwittingly caused a massive hacker attack on Twitter which sent users to Japanese porn sites and took out the White House press secretary’s feed. Pearce Delphin, whose Twitter name is @zzap, admitted exposing a security flaw which was then pounced...
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2010
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Image Sharing Script
Create your own popular image sharing website. Allow users to share their picture and photos with everyone. Host images instantly with this image hosting script. Features Rate Images Users can rate images with the 5 star rating system (ajax). Rate Images Security Users are only allowed to vote once per...
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2010
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Yahoo answers clone scriptYahoo answers clone script
Looking to create your own Yahoo Answer Website. Well here is the script that will help you achieve that goal! Question Answer Script with a large and highly customizable set of key features makes it the best of php answer script available. Question answer script has the question & answer...
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2010
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Domain Auctions Script Flippa clone script
This fantastic script can be used to create your very own Flippa website. Not only can it be used as a flippa type website, but it’s great for any marketplace niche. With this Clone Script you will be able to produce a marketplace website within minutes. PRICE: $57 DEMO...
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May
2010
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Deal Coupon Groupon Clone Script
Denovo Voucher Script (DVS) is an affiliate marketing tool you can install on your domain to market affiliated products/promotions/offers etc. as well as distribute vouchers to your visitors through the tool. Groupon Clone Script, Coupon Script, Deal a day Script, Free Groupon Clone, Open Source Groupon Script PRICE: FREE DEMO...
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May
2010
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Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with playable logo
A playable … logo? That’s exactly what web giant has today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s Japanese release. The doodle (Google’s term for its event and holiday-specific logos) is accessible on its main page and is a full 255-level game complete with a 256th level “kill screen,”...
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2010
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Facebook Style Input Box
The approach to re-create the autocomplete method of adding multiple recipients to messages used on Facebook. “I’d seen it in Facebook before, which has a really decent implementation of this concept (it work well, but it doesn’t respect any modern programming principles; basically, it’s a big tag soup with lots...
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2010
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Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 2
This is Part 2 of the Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel, if you haven’t checked out Part 1 this is the perfect time to check it out. The footer panel can be useful for admin driven applications and much more. There are many useful techniques that we covered today like...
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2010
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jQuery lightBox plugin
jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector. lightBox is a plugin for jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar. The better way to know what...
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2010
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jQuery Form Field Validation Plugin
jVal is a jQuery form field validation plugin that provides an appealing animated message flyout that doesn’t impede form layout/design while being user-friendly. FEATURES Current development version is only 8KB and 5.8KB minified Check validity of field values within a certain container or block element based off simple INPUT tag...
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2010
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Creating Slick Forms Using Ajax, jQuery & CSS
Here is 10 Impressive techniques using some jQuery magic to spice up those old registrations forms and any form you might have on your website. View them here!...
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2010
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jQuery Autocomplete
This script is based on jQuery Autocomplete plugin made by PengoWorks. It has many options and is quite easy to setup in your page. You can pass advanced options as a JavaScript object, hashes etc. It’s easily to edit the style of the dropdown result box, there are a couple...
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2010
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Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 1
Learn how to recreate the Facebook footer admin panel with CSS and jQuery. Facebook has many Ajax driven features and applications that are very impressive, and one of the things I particularly like is the footer admin panel, where it neatly organizes frequently used links and applications. Read how to...
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2010
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32 Great Google Chrome Extensions For Designers
Google chrome is a fairly new web browser but it has already gained huge popularity with its great speed and features. Thanks to the guys from www.1stwebdesigner.com, here is a list of 32 great extensions for Google Chrome. 1. FireBug Lite I hope we all know FireBug addon for FireFox,...
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2010
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Protecting Web Site Content
When you create a web page, article, graphic or any other kind of web site content many of us would prefer that credit is given to where it is due. Alas, majority of the time we succumb to “wishful thinking” and our material ends up being used and credited by...
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2010
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Bad Website Ideas – What Makes a Bad Website
If you consider yourself to be a creative individual, or you simply want to express your passion for a certain subject, then creating a website could be for you. Many new websites enter the internet every day, and that is hardly likely to change anytime soon. Unfortunately, many of these...
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2010
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Is Forum Posting Still a Good Method for Marketing?
Sometimes companies will have a new product, service, or idea, but they’re unsure how to market it. Maybe they’re a new company that’s starting out. They don’t want to spend money on expensive advertising. These companies want a cheaper alternative....
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2010
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Google gets a facelift
Google rolled out several improvements to its search on Thursday. So i thought i would just share with those who haven’t yet checked it out. The use of more slick and web 2 effects really gives Google search a top class look and feel. Not so flat as it use...
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2010
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SEO
Search Engine Optimization, a.k.a. Web optimization, is an approach by which a web site gets to be noticeable on the search engine’s radars. Thinking about the truth that there are through 4 billion publicly accessible web sites on the World-wide-web, getting noticeable when a probable client performs a search on Google or Yahoo is essential. If your website does not show up in first couple of pages of outcomes, there is a really slim likelihood that the probable client will be equipped to track down your internet site. When starting off on the Seo journey, do not count on fast...
Last week we did a post on Google panda “Has your site been Google Panda slapped?”. This week I want to share with you some ideas and practice that you can apply to your website to help improve and beat the panda! Google has released Panda update 2.2, just as Matt Cutts said they would! This really is updates to Google’s algorithm. In short removing and filtering through the crap! We get asked daily on what steps we should look at to improve the drop in SERPS and to help improve on building a better quality website but also its...
Have you seen this error in Google page speed? Leverage browser caching!! Here’s the fix Browser caching of external resources can increase loading time of a web page and decrease server load. In this article i will explain how to enable mod_expires and to improve page speed as page speed is now 1 of Google’s many SEO factors. Browser caching should be used for static resources such as pictures, css and js files etc. Googles overview of this is simple: Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load...
Newsletter templates are so often hard to come by! Express Mail is a template design that caters for all businesses. The template comes with all the essential generic information and elements to get you started. Template Highlights: 5 background themes Valid XHTML Cross email compatible with all major email clients Degrades gracefully on older email clients Easy to customise Ability to copy/paste rows from layout to another Ability to delete/duplicate any row Photoshop files included Documentation included Well commented code Get it!...
The approach to re-create the autocomplete method of adding multiple recipients to messages used on Facebook. “I’d seen it in Facebook before, which has a really decent implementation of this concept (it work well, but it doesn’t respect any modern programming principles; basically, it’s a big tag soup with lots of inline Javascript)” Demo Get IT...
If you are one among the many webmasters who has just designed a website or a web application, hosted it, and waiting for visitors to come by and buy your product, then you are going to be disappointed by the results. A website just hosted might not be known to many people around the web and you can’t expect web traffic towards that website. It is necessary to popularize your website by some means so that users know that there is such a website and it offers something for everybody. Spreading the links to your website throughout the web is...
Facebook has really shown some strong domination since it’s first launched into the social networking world. But believe it or not, it only plays second place to the all mighty My Space. In 2008, Facebook had 54.5 million monthly unique visitors compared to nearly 76 million for MySpace. The Social networking giant by these graphs still stand tall. At current growth rates Facebook will overtake My Space in January 2010, a year from now. That is the month Facebook will reach 86 million U.S. users, compared to MySpace’s 84 million in January....
Good solid XHTML/CSS Templates are hard to come by, Here is a small list of some free High Quality XHTML/CSS Templates. These templates have been tested and proven compatible with all major browser environments and operating systems. Please note they are free to use, but remember to check the license first for any restrictions or guidelines. Download Jet 30 Download Temper...
Google starts its own digg like system called Searchwiki. A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later. This new feature not only allows users to customize searches but also allows all Google users to add notes to specific listings, which is visible to others. I personally named it the Google Digg system. This i think by far is one of the killer moves Google has made to it’s search engine yet. This gives me the power to remove all those unwanted fly by night SEO boys...
I did some in depth searches with regards to this issue. My question was, How does Google treat internal links? In short. If there is two links linking to the same internal page. Here i go in depth to find out how the Google machine does things in the outside world. I surmised: Google might count one link, the first it finds as it indexes a page Google might count them all (I think unlikely)...
It is truly a webmaster’s dream to get quality traffic to consistantly come to their website. You can pretty much do what you want with your visitors when you get good targeted traffic. You can test and track your conversion rate, do list building and click throughs just to name a few. There are a variety of traffic sources you can pursue such as traffic from a search engine. It is not wise to rely solely on search engines for your traffic or from any one source for that matter. You need to diversify your tactics to create a well-rounded...
Tools that should be used in preparation of your website design . AWStats – An website analysis tool similar to 103bees and Google analytics however this analysis the Logfile of a website and therefore does not require JavaScript on each page. It does require Perl/CGI access so this may not be for everyone. Google Keyword Tools – Another handy little Keyword tool, this is nice to find out the cost of the Keywords with Adwords and what is commonly searched on the web....
Hi Guys, The 1 of april is around the corner and the springleap competition is almost finished. I don’t think anybody is going to hit springleap off the top spot, but it is going to be entertaining as time draws near. There is R4000 up for grabs… So keep promoting those keywords and marketing ideas!...
So if your looking for some good tips to optimize your website like professionals here are 10 great tips for you. The SEO tips below should assist you in forming a basic understanding of how to create human friendly web pages which are easily understood by the most popular search engines. Know this. There are thousands of search engines but only two of them will bring you most of the traffic. They are google and yahoo. Another search engine that brings me a little traffic is msn but I do not focus too much on tactics for that engine. Focus...
1.) How do I use a Robots file or do you have an example of one? A. You mean robots.txt. It’s a file in the main directory of a website which tells the search engine spiders where they are allowed to go. A basic, spider can go anywhere file is: User-agent: * Disallow: You can disallow folders or files by putting this into the file: User-agent: * Disallow: /foldername/...