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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Website Ideas
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...
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 / DOWNLOAD / DOWNLOAD NOW...
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 is jQuery lightBox plugin, click the Example tab above and see it in action. Download here: http://leandrovieira.com/download/7/...
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 attributes Easy configuration of validity checks per field as per attributes in the INPUT tag Check the validity of all fields within a certain container with a single function call Check the validity of a single field when the user clicks away firing the onBlur event Prevent the user to...
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 do it !!!!...
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....
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 places have a poor concept of just how their domain should be designed, and this hurts their popularity and visitor count. If you don’t want to meet the same fate, there are certain things you can do in order to make your website attractive and easy to navigate. What can...
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...
I’ve decided to make a list of all the great money making affiliates and programs that one can use in your money making adventure. Please feel free to bookmark this page and to list any others that i will miss. Google AdSense: AdSense is a contextual advertising program for which publishers simply have to add a piece of code to their sites that helps Google analyze what your page is about so they can serve Ads on that topic. AdSense also allows you to earn money by using Google Search on your site that will display relevant Ads when visitors...
I was asked to do a follow up to my previous post “How to Run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine” , but this time illustrate it using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. The same method can easily be applied for Fireworks and the other adobe package. I’ve broken it up into easy simple steps to follow! Both posts are very similar and should help guide you into the right direction....
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....
Finding good quality FREE scripts are so hard at times to come by. Coders spent hundreds of hours on them and end up selling the stuff ( which you cant blame them). But today we take a look at a script that really blew me off my feet, Dolphin 6 . The prefect script for a social media network. It has all the functionality you will need to start off with and has wonderful features ranging from emotions , RSS Feeds, Fully incorporated Ajax controls to user friendly control panels. BoonEx Dolphin is 100% open-source, so you can modify every...
I thought it would be appropriate to show some beautiful ideas and there’s no better representation of your visual identity than your business card. Most business cards are dull, boring, and don’t say much about the person or business they are in. Here is a list of 15 great business cards that really show what the clients venture is all about....
The guys behind the Joomla accommodation directory SA STAY, have given us inside information on all the tools used and modifications made to there joomla system and sobi2 component. There use of extensive frameworks and WEB 2.0 effects is phenomenal. Today we take a look at some of these great features that they have applied to there Joomla system. The components used where Joomla and Sobi2 as there base system. There aim was to remove all Mootools frameworks and plugins and build Jquery into there base system and design some custom plugins. We’re not going to go into full detail...
Being experimenting with the API of Twitter. I started out playing with curl to send updates from a joomla directory, once a user added a listing. The concept was to have followers follow the updates live via twitter. Tools used: Joomla , Sobi2 and some basic PHP. Firstly make sure your server supports curl and that the extension is active. A simple install to linux would look something like this. sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl Now you have PHP cURL installed, the next thing you need to do is to restart apache2, run the following command in your...
Once again, South Africa born bread Vinny Lingham continues to inspire. SynthaSite brings in a whooping $20m further investment to expand the infrastructure, systems, process & support for his business. SynthaSite’s main goal is to make it easy enough that anyone with a computer to create a website for their small business, organization or personal needs with a simple click with the mouse button. Vinny believes that with this $20m investment he can now grow very quickly and become the DE-facto standard amongst for business & personal website building. With over 40+ staff members, vinny hopes to take SynthaSite to...
WOW, being following allot of the launches and start-up’s in the South African market and here is a prime example of what they are capable of doing. Along with Avusa labs, South Africa has launched it’s very own SA Elections website. Users and the world will now be able to view happenings of the SA elections from the net. The use of sharp and professional colors, complimented with awesome Ajax effects, this website will press bench marks....
Looking to take control of your advertising campaigns? Well OpenX is your answer. There came a point in time where I had no control of my ad campaigns. With so many different projects and making use of different CMS systems, advertising for me became a nightmare. Having to log into 20 different accounts to view page impressions and so on was not working. So I then stumbled upon a free ad server for web publishers, called OpenX. It allows users, web developers and advertisers to take control of their advertising. Web developers have gone as far as using this server...
Google brings Google Sites. Very similar to blogs, but yet very different, Google sites allows you to give control to who can and cannot edit the contents of your site, much like MS Share-point. Its the quickest way to have a website, it needs no installation and is perfect for small business to have a small website or starting point. All you need to jump start this fantastic program is a Google Account. If you have a Gmail account, that’s perfect....
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...
This specific post was one that I decided to do, only because I thought I would never use it. This specific tool worked out great and allows users to have there SQL databases emailed to them. Now you are wondering why would somebody use this. Well it’s simple. I needed this specific tool only to back up certain tables in my SQL database, so that the results could be used in a CSV format and then reloaded on a C++ platform. Without me having to do it manually ever time....
There is allot of hype with regards to this issue. Today i thought i would take the time and find out what Cuil (pronounced “cool”) has to offer. They proclaim that there search engine goes beyond traditional approaches by analyzing the context of each page and the concepts behind each query so it can provide better rankings by content rather than popularity....
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/...
In today’s highly competitive business world it is essential for the owner of a company in any industry to have an edge over the competition. This may take a variety of forms, but we will just focus on one: The Website. Having a website, as well as making use of internet marketing, has become a very important facet of most businesses today. In fact, it is almost as essential as having a telephone or a fax. Having a modern, well presented website is now almost obligatory, and is an essential tool to providing background on a company and its services/...
Today’s post is target mainly to developers using Adobe Fireworks. We often find that 50% of website developers use fireworks and the other percentage use photoshop. We stumbled across 131 web 2.0 layer styles for fireworks. These styles bring fresh ideas and concepts when designing website templates....
The most important part of modern business strategy is to think on a global scale, however this doesn’t mean that businesses can afford to ignore their local market. The world is continually changing. The most noticeable change is perhaps in the way businesses operate; over the past few decades this has changed considerably. Businesses are able to operate on an international scale fairly easily, but that doesn’t mean that they can lose touch with their local customers. Consumers and businesses can buy any product from anywhere in the world thanks to the internet. Top business strategies include multilingual website marketing...
