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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 [...]

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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 anything (in [...]

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Day 3: Give away something for free Everybody loves freebies! So on Day 3, we decided to give something away for free. The best products to give away are usually digital products because it doesn’t require you to go through the hassle of organising a courier and instant delivery is guaranteed. And if you have [...]

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Hello Little Girl is a cute, fresh and summery theme, featuring a little girl. The template was created originally for Website Templates. Main colors are blue, green, yellow and dark brown. It is a two-columns template with a sidebar on the right. Features: Search Engine Optimised Useful 404 page with links to categories Large font [...]

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Day 2: Article Submission Day 2 was a busy day compared to Day 1 because we spent the entire 2 hours allocated to complete the task. The plan for Day 2 was to submit articles on our blog to article directories and content sites. There are many article directories on the web, and therefore, choosing [...]

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Day 1: Importing blog feed to Facebook profile Import a Blog on Facebook On Day 1, we had a quick and easy exercise. We added our Web Development Blog’s RSS feed to our Facebook profile using Notes application. Importing a feed to your Facebook profile is very easy and you can do so without having [...]

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Over the next 7 days, we will be having a traffic building exercise in order to generate more traffic to Web Development Blog. Join us on our journey to building traffic and learning tips and tricks along the way. Our Plan We will be spending 1 – 2 hours every day to implement our traffic [...]

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This post covers some of the most common elements you see on many magazine websites. Hero module A hero module on a magazine website usually consists of featured articles from various categories across the site. Javascript tabs / carousel functionality is often used to rotate the items within this module. Latest articles Latest articles section [...]

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2010 is predicted to be the year of mobile and mobile web browsing is expected to increase this year. To help you build a website that is accessible not just to normal web users on desktop or laptop computers but also to mobile users, let’s have a look at some of the tips on building [...]

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Google Search has recently introduced breadcrumbs in their Search Result Snippets replacing the URL displayed below the individual snippet. There are both advantages and disadvantages of this new feature. One immediate advantage that I see is if your search result snippet has a breadcrumb, your website will probably get more pageviews because the user is [...]

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