Monthly Archives: August 2008
Keyword Benchmarking with Google Adwords
First, let’s define benchmarking: the process where you compare something of yours against something better and try to improve the standard of your something to improve the quality. Before we start I just want to tell you that I did this with an ad campaign in Google Adwords and the effect was amazing, I got [...]
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XHTML and CSS standards
These web standards are established by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), so you should consider having a link to validate the XHTML and CSS of your website (for each page). The advantage of having the links -so people can click em- and of course to have both XHTML and CSS validated it’s like if [...]
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WAMP – Work faster
WAMP stands for Windows version (also available for Mac, Linux and Solaris families) of Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl or Python) all in one! Having this installed will let you have your own server (offline) on your computer, so you wont need to keep uploading those files in order to see the changes that [...]
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Black and white vector with highlights
In this tutorial you will learn how to easily create a black and white vector with highlights from a photograph. Let’s start! Open up the image from what you want to make a vector. I will use this one i took some weeks ago: Next, duplicate (Control + J) Background layer and save the PSD [...]
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Page title changer
Have you ever wondered how sites (like this one) have a different page title for each page? Here is how you do it: Lets say you have 3 pages: index.php, about.php and contact.php. You need to have the page include system working so we can use the same variable for the page title changer. < [...]
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Mail form for newbies
When i started my site i read a lot of tutorials looking for the best email form, but my problem was that i was a PHP newbie, in other words, i didnt know ANYTHING about PHP so it was really hard to understand the tutorials even if they tried to explain it. So let me [...]
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Browser detection
Some days ago I finished a site but it was only coded (CSS) for a perfect view in Firefox 3 and IE 6. I’ve neer had a CSS file for IE 7 since I dont use it but when viewing the site on a computer that had IE 7, it had some minor problems…so I [...]
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Alexa rank updated/changed
Today I noticed that Alexa rank was updated/changed. So congratulations if your Alexa rank was lowered or keep pushing your site traffic if didnt move or got higher. What is Alexa rank? Is a rank that measures mainly your site traffic. If you have a low rank, lets say 350,000 then you receive like 1,000 [...]
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The making of: Marijuana Man