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 previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network.

Enabling cache expiration can be done with the Apache module mod_expires, either with an entry in .htaccess or the server’s httpd.conf. Cache times need to be entered in seconds:

“Note that mod_expires should be loaded by default in the Apache already!”

Then refresh the page and test again!

For those of you on shared hosting and free hosting, you will need to contact your hosting provider to do this for you! I’ve tested this will all major CMS scripts (Joomla, wordpress, Drupal) and all is fine!

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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/

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 input specific characters into the field and notify them it’s not allowed

ASSETS As they currently reside on Google Code

• jVal.js – LATEST – core jVal jQuery plugin code
• jVal.css – drives the style of the jVal flyout notifications
• jVal.html – demonstration html instantiating jVal
• remaining assets – graphics

Demo : http://www.overset.com/2008/07/31/jval–jquery-form-field-validation-plugin/

View them here!

Read how to do it !!!!

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.

2. Resolution Test

Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for web developers to preview websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own.

3. Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux).

Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by:

• Javascript parsing and execution
• Layout
• CSS style recalculation and selector matching
• DOM Event handling
• Network resource loading
• Timer fires
• XMLHttpRequest callbacks
• Painting
• and more …

4. Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

5. Pendule

Use this extension in addition to the built-in Developer Tools. This tool is so similar to FireBug. You can just press mouse button and inspect the element.

6. Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.

Features:

• Save to desktop, host online, or edit in other Aviary apps.
• Captures instantly.
• Screen capture of the visible portion of all web pages and images.
• Add visual notes like arrows, text and highlights to your capture.
• Crop your capture.
• Resize, rotate and flip your capture.
• Smart select and move of captured elements.
• Grab color information from the page.
• Quick launch 6 Aviary design tools: Image editor, markup editor, vector editor, color palette editor, effects editor & audio editor.

7. Chrome Web Developer Tools

This extensions developers are trying to get this as close as possible to “FireFox Web Developer” addon. This extension made easy the web development.

8. Chrome Sniffer

Chrome Sniffer will help web developer to inspect web framework / CMS and javascript library running on current browsing website. An icon will appear on address bar indicates the detected framework. Great way to know what source site is using (if source is opensource and it is popular).

9. Lorem Ipsum Generator

It generates random “Lorem Ipsum” text, it allows to choose words per paragraph and number of paragraphs.

10. PlainClothes

Unstyle the web with this tool. PlainClothes makes everything as possible closer to default or your wanted style. Just imagine – text is black, backgrounds are white, unread links are blue, visited links are purple, all links are underlined or any other colors you like. And all text is rendered in your default fonts (as defined in “Options” > “Under the Hood” > “Change font and language settings”). Everywhere. Automatically.

This is how 1stwebdesigner.com looks using this tool:

11. Internet Explorer Tab

Internet Explorer Tab shows IE in Google Chrome. Very simple extension. I think it’s very useful to not to use IE.

12. Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.

13. SEO Site Tools

It validates CSS and HTML, displays server software, checks for gzip compression, page headers and shares even more on-page suggestions based on accepted SEO knowledge. It can disable right-click scripts, and does window resizing to see where fold would be on different size monitors. Fast clean simple UI with a wealth of SEO information makes doing a quick consult fast and easy.

14. META SEO Inspector

Meta data is not just the usual HTML meta tags, but the XFN tags, various microformats, the recently introduced canonical attribute, the no-follow links and so on.

15. Validity

Validity can be used to quickly validate your HTML documents from the address bar.

Just click the icon in the address bar to validate the current document without leaving the page. The number of validation errors can be seen in the tool tip.

Validity also gives you the option to use your own installation of the W3C Validation Service. (For more information on installing the W3C Validation Service see the documentation at http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html).

16. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper and Color Picker extension which allows you to pick color from any webpage or from advanced color picker.

17. Color Picker

Quickly get the Hex and RGB values of any color! Also adjust Hue, Saturation, and Balance.

18. Image Cropper

This extension help you to crop any images on the fly.
It’s especially useful when you need to crop your online album photo for IM thumbnail.

• Crop images in img html element
• Crop css background images for any html element
• Cropped Image is in PNG format
• Right click on top of the selection to “save as” the cropped image.

19. Webpage Screenshot

Makes screenshot of whole page even if page is very long.

20. Picnik

The Picnik Extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images you come across while browsing the web. With a click you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing. Do the same for all the image on the current page — just pick the image from the dynamic hot list and then edit, annotate and share with Picnik. It is a great replacement to PhotoShop!

21. MeasureIt!

Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

22. Pixlr Grabber

Grab visible screen, select part or entire page. Share screen to Pixlr imm.io, edit screen in Pixlr editor or save to desktop. This is one of the few who can capture the entire screen, however since Chrome just supports canvas in png the images created gets quite large and takes a while to process.

23. Domain Availability Checker

Quickly check if domain name is already taken or not.

24. Snippy

Snippy allows you to grab snippets of web pages, save them for future use and upload them to Google Docs.

25. FlashBlock

Flashblock is an extension for the Google Chrome that blocks all Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

26. BuiltWith Technology Profiler

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

27. LastPass

LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your browsing more secure.

28. iMacros

Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work. Web developers use iMacros for web regression testing, performance testing and web transaction monitoring. It can also be combined with Google Speed Tracer, Firebug and other web development and test tools. XPath support is included.

29. Chrome Flags

It shows the country where the server is hosting.

30. Frame Two Pages

Put two tabs into one tab’s two frames. Useful to compare two pages.

31. Split Screen

Works very similar to “Frame Two Pages” extension, but the main difference is that you can browse pages not switching tabs.

32. Session Buddy

Session Buddy is a flexible session manager that allows you to quickly save and restore session tabs.

• View all of the tabs in each window of a current or saved session
• Assess easily whether a displayed session has changed
• Save the current session with 2 clicks
• Restore sessions into a set of windows, a single window, or the current window
• Access automatically saved crash recovery sessions after a Chrome or OS crash
• Optionally automatically save the previous session
• Edit sessions by deleting individual windows/tabs or rolling tabs into a single window
• Import a list of URLs
• Export a session to text or CSV format (more formats in development)
• Control what types of tabs Session Buddy recognizes
• Show/hide current session tab count in extension icon badge

Read More at:  http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/google-chrome-extensions-web-developers-designers

Academically, people can get caught for plagiarism. Copyright owners can sue for copyright infringement. However, to sue for copyright infringement or to condemn a stranger to plagiarism is tough and meticulous. Many wish there was an instant remedy to the problem.

Unfortunately, there is no ultimate way to prevent someone from directly stealing your website content. There are a few html codes that you can incorporate into your web page settings that can disable mouse clicks and computer commands. However, the flaw with that method is that some of these new browsers that have been created are immune to these html codes.

There is still some light visible at the end of the tunnel. Even though some web browsers are immune to certain HTML and JavaScript commands, there is still hope. You can visit many web sites that offer free HTML codes that have been tested through many browsers that protect your website.

Dynamic Drive

Dynamic Drive is a web site that has a variety of free DHTML and JavaScripts available for users. Some of their HTML codes include codes that disable viewers’ right-click availability as well as many other codes for the overall visual enhancement of your web page.

Of course, you must abide by their copyright rules. Or else you might end up illegally copying their material as well. For more information on Dynamic Drive’s codes and other services visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com.

Digimarc

If you want copyright protection on your material and are willing to have a cost associated check out Digimarc. Digimarc is a digital watermarking company that aids users in protecting their materials by combating fraud, counterfeiting, piracy and internet traffic safety.

Digimarc can help you protect your web site images, content, graphics, media, etc. Digimarc also allows you to watermark your web site content without having a tacky symbol, name or web address ruining your material. For more information on Digimarc and their services visit https://www.digimarc.com/

There is a variety of other methods for protecting your web site content. These references are two excellent choices of the many content protection sources to go with.

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 you lose by trying?

1. Don’t have music playing, either in mp3 or midi form, on the website. People are not fond of having music suddenly blast from their speakers, and they are likely to hit the back button before they even get a chance to check out anything. You might think you’re sharing your favorite song with people, but odds are they won’t appreciate it. If you must have a music player, make sure it is either manually activated or it can be turned off by the visitor. This is very important to keep in mind.

2. Never use a tiny font to enhance your text. If you visited a website and the font was too tiny for comfort, would you stick around? The answer would likely be no. Therefore, make sure any text is of a size that most people would be able to read. You will also want to refrain from using fancy fonts that have the potential to create a problem; this is just as bad as tiny fonts, because it can be just as difficult to make out. If you aren’t sure, ask a friend or someone you know to take a look at the website before it goes “live.” They can give you feedback.

3. Don’t flood the pages with animated pictures. This is a sure fire way to give off an air of unprofessional, a fatal mistake if you plan to put up an online business. Some browsers might also be unable to load the pictures properly, and it may end up taking a long time. Will the visitor have that kind of patience? Would you?

4. Let people know what the website is about right away. If they become confused and are unable to figure out what they are looking at, they will leave.

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.

That’s where forum posting comes in. These companies will typically advertise on forums that pertain to their product or service. After all, you wouldn’t want a mechanic to advertise on a beauty forum.

There are some reasons why this is a good method. It’s a free way of getting your name out there. It’s an alternative to word-of-mouth marketing. It will definitely attract attention on the forums. Companies may be able to find someone who’s looking for a similar service or product.

On the other hand, it’s not such a great way to get your name out there. People are frustrated with spam on the Internet. They find it in emails, chat rooms, and websites. Finding more advertising on a forum will make them even more disgusted. They’ll end up ignoring the advertisement.

That’s why it’s best to advertise with a website or blog. This is a great way to get some information out about your product or service. Plus, you can find new customers or vice versa. Find blogs and websites that are in the same market. Make sure to network with both customers and companies. This will give you a better word-of-mouth marketing.

Some additional methods for marketing include using social networking websites. These are a great way to find new customers around town or around the country. Use websites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Add your friends and family to your profile so they can help get the word out about your company. Think of it as free advertising for your company.

You should use both social networking and blogging as a way to get your name out there. You can broaden your audience with the right tools. Be sure to use specific keywords that are relative to your field. If you’re a mechanic, what kind of keywords would you want to use? One way to find out is by searching on Google. Many websites can also help you in choosing the right keywords.

With the right keywords, people will be able to find you and your business.

TPDugg (Component + Modules) Explained

TPDugg is a social article sharing component for joomla. With this component, you can make a website just like digg.com with joomla, where your visitors or users can share articles, voted it, or give a comment about it, just like so many social sharing websites, such as; digg.com, stumbleupon, misterwong, reddit, etc!

This module has a function to show 3 types of TPDugg contents; based on the latest submitted item, the highest voted item and the most-commented item. It also can be arranged based on the time line, for example; the latest item from last week, last month, etc.

Beside that, this module also has features that made it more flexible, such as feature to choose what section and category to display, feature to choose layout module; standard or simple, and many others. You can arrange everything through the backend page of this module.

Joomla users have been waiting for a digg type system to be released and so far Dugg Plazza should tick all the buttons if you are a Joomla user.

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Social Media
Stumble
Digg
Facebook
Twitter

Article Marketing
1)Articlesbase
2)Ezinearticles

Web 2.0 Properties
1)Squidoo
2)Hubpages
3)Scribd
4)Articlesbase
5)Zimbio
6)Jimdo

Free Classifieds
1)USfreeads
2)Craigslist

Answers Marketing
1)Yahoo Answers
2) answers.com
3) Answerbag

Blog Comments
Fire following query in google.
“Keyword Phrase” Add new comment
Also I use blog directories to find niche specific blogs

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 the only option for visitors to stumble upon the links to your sites and navigate to your site from those links.

The word or a phrase that links to your website from another website is very important. Only catchy phrases that grab the attention of the visitors on a particular topic get more clicks and hence more web traffic to that website. It is not easy to get your website’s link in other website unless you are provided good quality content and services. The saying ‘content is the king’ is very true when it comes to SEO link building. If you website provides unique, genuine, and well researched content that is useful to many visitors on a particular topic then chances are that many would link to that content from their website. Visitors to that website might visit your website for the useful content your have provided. Thus providing useful content is one of the ways to popularize your website and get more back links.

You cannot build links overnight. It is a very slow process and you have to consistent in that process and over time you will see that the back links to your website have grown tremendously and your get some steady traffic to your website. It could be frustrating for the new comers to build links. But you have to go with it.

Some of the ways for SEO link building apart from writing useful content in your website are to buy PPC traffic. You can buy relevant traffic which is a good way to link building. You can post some useful articles in article directories like ezinearticles, goarticles, etc and give your website’s link in the resource box provided. This would get some targeted traffic and help you in link building. You can also trade articles with other webmasters. Social bookmarking also helps you to build links. Submit your site to some relevant directories. Do not over do that in all the directories that you come across. If the quality of the content is good you can also some of your friends to tag it in the bookmarking sites. You can use the classified services like Craigslist. Answering related questions in Yahoo Answers would also help in SEO link building. If you can create some useful page in Wikipedia, do so and give a link back to your website. Squidoo pages are also a good way in link building. You can easily develop a Squidoo page in a short time.

Apart from the above ways to go about SEO link building there are many other ways which might help you. Do a simple research on the web for other ways. You get a lot of free information on the web for link building and make sure that you are using genuine methods; otherwise your website will be banned by the search engines as spam.

• 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 search on your site. AdSense also has a referral program that allows you to earn by recommending various products like Firefox toolbar, AdSense, Adwords, etc.
• Text Link Ads: Text Link Ads will help you sell simple text links on your site easily. The monthly link price will depend on factors like your Google Pagerank and Alexa rank. As a new Advertiser on Text Link Ads you are eligible for $100 in FREE Links.Text Link Ads has an affiliate program that will pay you $25 for any referred visitor that is accepted into their publisher program and installs the advertising script on their site for seven days. If you refer an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in your affiliate account within 24 hours.For more info, read my Text Link Ads Review.
• Chitika eMiniMalls: Chitika eMiniMalls is a cost per click advertising program that will perform particularly well for product related sites.
• Vizu Answers: Vizu Answers helps you earn money from your site by placing interactive Polls on desired topics. They pay you based on CPM (Cost per thousand impressions), and you even get to set the minimum CPM rate for each poll you put up on your web site.
• ReviewMe: Pays you to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.
• Kontera: Kontera’s ContentLink provides in-text advertising solution that monetizes your content in real-time, enabling an incremental increase in ad revenue by providing a new source of untapped ad inventory that does not compete with the other ad programs running on the site. ContentLink also creates a valuable user experience by serving relevant and informational ads that match the user’s interest and frame of mind.ContentLink requires your site to have a minimum of 500,000 pageview per month, but I have seen them accepting new sites with lower pageviews.
• FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN): FAN adds CPM ads to your feed. You may need around 500 RSS readers to get accepted.
• Software Judge: They will pay you up to $50 to review software.
• Vibrant Media: You can sign up with them to display relevant in-text ads if your web site delivers more than 500,000 page views of text based content a month.
• Yahoo Publisher Network- Displays ads that are relevant to the content of your site. They are CPC based just like AdSense.
• Pay Per Post – Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.
• BlogAds – BlogAds lets you set the price and helps you find advertisers for your blog easily.To perform better with BlogAds, place it at a more prominent position on your blog.