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Leverage browser caching – Improve Page Spead
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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...
Domain Auctions Script Flippa clone script
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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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Deal Coupon Groupon Clone Script
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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...
jquerylightbox
jQuery lightBox plugin
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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/...
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jQuery Form Field Validation Plugin
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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...
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Creating Slick Forms Using Ajax, jQuery & CSS
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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!...
Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 1
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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 !!!!...
32 Great Google Chrome Extensions For Designers
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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....
Protecting Web Site Content
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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 someone else....
Bad Website Ideas – What Makes a Bad Website
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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...
Is Forum Posting Still a Good Method for Marketing?
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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....
Create A Digg-like site With Joomla – Dugg Plazza
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Dugg Plazza allows all Joomla lovers to design their very own digg like website. Digg scripts are somehow proving to be more popular. After running through a few of these Digg like scripts, we found Dugg plazza to be quite handy. Moving form pligg to Joomla, this was far our best option. ...
Great Ways to Drive Traffic to your Website!
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Getting traffic is not always that easy when launching anew website. Today I’ve complied a list of great ways to gain traffic to your website. Please feel free to add to this list. Social Media Stumble Digg Facebook Twitter...
Importance of SEO link building and how to go about it
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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...
Make Money Online
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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...
Install Dreamweaver / Fireworks CS4 in Ubuntu / Linux
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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....
Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages
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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....
Dolphin 6 – Create Your Own Social Media Network for Free
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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...
Typography Design Inspiration
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Today’s post is so often overlooked and never really seen as Design inspiration. Here we take a good look at some great typographic artworks. Not only is it used in everyday design but can also inspire to create beautiful and creative ideas. Typography is needed!...
15 Great Business Card Ideas
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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....
Custom made plugins and web 2.0 effects for Sobi2
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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...
Posting twitter posts with Curl using PHP, Sobi2 and Joomla
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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...
SynthaSite rolls in $20m investment
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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...
South Africa launches SA Elections website
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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....
5 Top Free Icon Sets
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Free icon sets are often hard to come by. Here is a small list of fancy icon sets that one can use in everyday web designing.These playful free icon sets contain curvy and colorful icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. We will add to this list as they come. 1:Coquette Icons 2: Glossy Member Icons...
Download 7 Top WordPress Themes
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Not only is 7 my lucky number, but we’ve gone and added 7 of the best WordPress themes we could find. Please feel free to download them. These themes include full PSD-templates and can be used without any restrictions whatsoever. 1:) Urban Elements Download 2:) FolioTheme Download...
Take control of your online advertising
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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...
Get your own website on Google Sites
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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....
Great Free Photoshop brush websites
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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...
10 cool mapping sites – Make use of mapping technology
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Google Maps and Global maps have become a big part of today’s development. Here’s a inside scoop to some killer websites using mapping technology to enhance there development. 1:Bouldr.net 2:ongopongo.com 3:spotit.us...
Backup MySQL database & email results using PHP
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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....
Awsome Free PSD from DeviantArt
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Good solid PSD are often hard to come by. Here is a list of some of my favourite PSD from DeviantArt. They offer a wide range of PSD to help inspire a designer or to help you reach in and find some creativity for website ideas....
Cuil takes on the Giant Google
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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....
Free WordPress Theme -WordPress Fun
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Professional WordPress themes are hard to come by, but SM has pulled off another show stopper. The theme has 2 columns, thumbnails integration, a “featured” post section as well as a nice grungy design. Website Ideas and designs don’t get easier....
Incredibly Creative Flash Websites design and ideas
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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/...
Social networks all in one box – Spokeo
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Those of you who have 100′s of social networking account’s, This post is dedicated to you. Spokeo searches your friends’ blogs and photos across 40 social networks so you don’t have to visit hundreds of websites one by one. All social networks in a box....
Amazing Free Wallpapers for Desktop or Website Design Ideas
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Today we follow paintbits with there amazing composition of wallpapers. Here we can see a number of different styles, colours, Customization, contrast and lighting. These wallpapers are great for website design ideas, desktop wallpapers or even for inspiration....
Website and Website Ideas – How important is it!!
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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/...
131 Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Fireworks
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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....
More Ideas For A Website Marketing Strategy
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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...
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