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The Case Against Outsourced SEO

By Adam McFarland

About a week ago I got a phone call from a college buddy of mine named Paul who runs a soon-to-launch online business. Here’s how the conversation went:

Paul: “We want to hire your company to do the SEO for us. Whatever the price is, we… Continue reading

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Minimizing Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads

Are you having page load issues? Do you operate a CMS website or two that seems to take a long time (even on broadband) to download pages? Well, our Author, Max Kiesler, has ferreted out a number of solutions with some excellent techniques to address the basic issue — multiple Javascript and CSS files cause multiple “round trips” between the server and served pages. Take

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How to Convert Code to Display Correctly in XHTML Pages

If you’ve ever stumbled when you’re writing an article about code and coding techniques because you can’t get the code to display right on your page — no worries. I’ll give you some tips and tricks here. You’ll learn the long way

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters

Top 10 Blog Writing Tips

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This is one article in a series on how to write better. Blogging. Website copy. eCommerce sales copy. Journalism. Even the pro’s keep themselves up to speed with the latest techniques for writing blogs and web copy. The art of writing is perhaps even more important today with all the new ways to publish

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Working with CSS, DHTML and JavaScript

XHTML. DHTML. CSS. JavaScript. AJAX. A lot of acronyms for Open Source WebMasters to juggle. Here, you can learn about how CSS, DHTML & JavaScript — major components of and compliments to AJAX — work together in useful ways, see some examples, and try some exercises on your own… courtesy of Google Code for Educators. It’s not for brand new WebMasters

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Create Professional RSS Feeds

Trumpet your RSS to the world… professionally.

By Sharon Housley

More and more companies are using RSS as a means to communicate, so having an RSS feed that is professional and well polished will help differentiate your company from your competition. What makes an RSS feed professional? Follow these simple steps to polish your RSS feed and take it to the next level…

“… nothing… Continue reading

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Hidden Facts of PHP

By Anirban Bhattacharyya

PHP is a wonderful language for the web. It is fast, light, has full object oriented support and enormous capability to create any sort of application which can run in web browser. Unfortunately, this potential of PHP is not always explored in the coding. A heavy website crumble when its popularity skyrockets and hits multiplies. In this article, I will present some of the tips and tricks… Continue reading