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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2011
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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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Jul
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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Jun
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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Jun
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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Nov
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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Sep
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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Jul
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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May
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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May
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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May
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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May
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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Website Design
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, so here is the same extension but only for Chrome. Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page....
Bvd is by far one of the greatest WordPress Templates i have come across. It’s the perfect template for a web product or portfolio type business. This great template features Very simple and easy to use design, ready for Twitter updates and thumbnails. Images in thumbnails are automatically resized. All the features can be seen below!...
I stumbled across a post with regards to Sign-Up pages which i thought i have to share. We so often forget how important that page really is. The sign-up page to me is the core sale to any business. If this page is misleading or explains to little, the sale is then lost. Here is some great ideas below from webdesigner depot....
Good solid brushes are often hard to come by. Here is a small list of Photoshop brush websites, that one can use to download great brushes. We often use photoshop to design our templates. No 1. deviantART There are nearly 47000 brushes for download. Deviant is one of the most dominating websites with photoshop brushes...
I’ve being following these group of guys for sometime now, We did a earlier post on there design and use of joomla and sobi2. Here they incorporate a slick new design and use of Jquery framework, sobi2, Ajax and many more cool features. This Accommodation directory offers a wide range of South African Accommodation based all over south Africa. They make use of interactive Google maps and plan to soon launch there beta3 stage with car hire and flights. Below we go in depth on the tools that where used and motives behind this slick professional design....
We’ve gone and complied our very own list of flash website designs. Please fee free to comment and add to this list. We will keep adding as we go. The design range is wide, creative, elegant and unique. This is awesome to see that web developers use powerful, functional and gorgeous designs in these “look-and-feel”-styles. Lets start. http://www.2advanced.com/ http://www.noastudios.com/...
Css Creme have pulled yet another one of the top shelve. Offering a slick new vista theme like CSS e-commerce template.This theme delivers a strong clean elegant look for a fresh new shopping system. Making a impact on your clients is a must with a design as such.This template features all the files you need to get up and running. Please note that E-commerce software is needed to use this template....
Website design is what determines the look and feel of your website. It is what forms the first impression of your website for visitors coming to your site. A good website design is one which is easy to use, easy to navigate, easy to understand and read, and also attractive. By attractive we don’t mean you need to put in lots of graphics and animations, even a simple site like Google can be termed as attractive. The important point to remember is that the site should not be cluttered with too many things as it can take the focus away...
Today we focus on building a show stopper website using Joomla as our primary CMS system and SOBI2 as our directory component. For a quick glance, we take a look at one of my favorite websites using this combination. www.weddingdreamers.co.za . Great example of pure design elegance. The use of light colors and baby blues, perfect for any wedding....
Some web designs are truly so repulsive that they actually drive people away from the site and prevent them from returning. Both you and your web design company must avoid these situations at all costs. Otherwise you run the risk of allowing your reputation to be diminished or being labelled and avoided by clients and customers....
2007 was very creative and unique. There was some beautiful and unusual design concepts. One major factor that came in was less is more. Vista looks and themes proved to be very popular. complimented with text-design, badges, stars, rounded corners, shapes, gradients, mirror and 3D-effects. Let us know Fall.tnvacation.com Virus Removal...
Web design is very much like most other forms of design in terms of the general rules and basic elements that are involved. These rules offer you a guide to the best and easiest ways of combining the different elements of a design into an attractive and functional website. A good web design company understands the concept of quality over quantity, and takes the effort to make each web page as functional and aesthetically appealing as possible. As you work to help your web design company to build a site design that is both useful and look good, make sure...
So you have taken a couple of days or hours designing this master piece but don’t rush the last few steps as they are the key to the website design success. I have seen so many great looking websites fail because the web designer/developer did not spend that extra 1 or 2 hours finishing it off properly. I take it that you have completed all the design work and have completely coded the website in HTML....