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So you don’t like ads.
If you have a website that has ads, you are probably no stranger to people commenting that you have too many ads on your website. Usually, I just smile and nod when I receive such comment but today, I thought I’d write my thoughts here. You don’t have to [...]

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The future of software development. Are you ready?
15 years ago, Microsoft released its first version of Internet Explorer. In 8 years, the mobile devices are going to take over television, computer, phone, gps, internet, console… Everything will be integrated in a single device. Internet connectivity will be universal and inexpensive. The 80% of the applications [...]

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To hell with web standards
W3C, I owe you my career. Your work made the web a better place. I can’t possible express the depth of my gratitude. Today, though, you’re irrelevant. I just don’t care anymore. I’m done with validation, done with changing doctypes every year to follow the latest fads, done with trying to [...]

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So our 7 Days Traffic Building Exercise has been completed successfully. And now, it’s time to review our statistics and find out how we did.
How we did

As you can see in the graph above, the overview traffic for February 4, 2010 – February 10, 2010 (Current) and January 21, 2010 – January [...]

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7 Days Traffic Building Exercise has come to an end. Was the exercise a success? Did we manage to increase any traffic? What did we learn from the exercise? All these questions will be answered in our next post. We are currently compiling the statistics and will be publishing [...]

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Day 7: Comment

This is the most common advice that top bloggers give on building a readership for your blog; Comment Comment Comment! Commenting on blogs enable you to build a relationship not only with authors of the blogs but also with the readers. Rather than trying to repeat what top bloggers have [...]

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Day 6: Submit to blog and RSS directories

On Day 6, we submitted our blog to blog and RSS directories. Submitting your blog to directories is not only good for traffic, but it is also good for search engine optimisation. There are many blog and RSS directories but try to choose the ones [...]

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Day 5: Write a round-up link post
On Day 5, we wrote a round-up blog post titled Weekly Round-up: 15 must read development, design and blogging articles. The idea of round-up post is not new, but it has become increasingly popular in recent years for a few reasons; 1) People find them useful (some [...]

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Development
10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animations
What’s Changed in jQuery UI 1.8
5 Groovy things you can do with htaccess
How To Use The Post Thumbnail Feature In WordPress 2.9
Understanding CSS – Padding, Positioning and CSS3
Design
Common elements on magazine websites
50 Incredible Asian Vector Portraits
4 Quick & Easy Design Theory Tips
Create a valentine’s day post card
30 High Quality [...]

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Day 4: Install widgets / plugins
Day 4 required a bit of web knowledge but don’t be afraid because you don’t need to be a web professional to complete this task.
Firstly, we added Social Bookmarking and Networking widgets to the blog. Social networking sites are one of the best ways to promote [...]

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