December 31st, 2009
You may say that this pertains more to graphic design than web development, but a large part of web development is presentation… Making everything pretty makes people stick around. But sometimes it can be tough to find the images or resources necessary to make your project really shine… Well, I’m here to help.
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December 29th, 2009
I just stumbled upon this great little service that allows you to find images incredibly relevant to your search terms, which are completely free for you to use, by finding images that use a Creative Commons license, or are in the public domain. Looking for images for your latest project? Don’t want to worry about paying up or asking permission from the creator, but don’t mind giving them credit? Look no further.
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December 27th, 2009
A big part of web development is marketing… Getting your work and your ideas out there. A lot of people have chosen to go viral, marketing on social networking services. Twitter, specifically, has grown to be quite a large network for marketers. I’m going to try and help make sure you don’t end up following thousands of random users and getting nothing in return.
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December 18th, 2009
Keywords help immensely with your search engine optimization (or SEO, for short). They help the engines find your websites and relate them to certain topics, objects, words… Whatever it may be. In short, they help people find your site. Well, Wordstream launched two new, free services yesterday, to handle the keywords for you and help you focus on other parts of your site.
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December 16th, 2009
Expediting your workflow is every web developer’s goal at some point or another.. Whether it’s on the backburner right now for you or not, I’m here to help you jump-start your process. Finding that one method or application is like the search for the Holy Grail… I’m going to try to dull the pain just a bit.
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December 14th, 2009
Today is the day when blogging and micro-blogging overlap… The gap is closed, and the biggest blogging network was the one to do it. Sure, you can tweet a status update when you make a new post on Tumblr and other sites, but now you can actually post on your Wordpress blog, from the Twitter API.
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December 13th, 2009
Apparently, sometime this month, possibly incredibly soon, Google could be completely freezing up, not updating anything until after the New Year. Is this good, bad, or does it really mean nothing?
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December 11th, 2009
Twitter is huge, and is only getting bigger. They’re expanding their API’s and making a bigger dent in the Internet than anybody could have predicted back in its infancy, in the year of 2006. But how big could it get, and should you embrace it?
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December 8th, 2009
Setting up a new blog can often be difficult, but if your platform of choice is Wordpress, I’ve got you covered! I’m going to outline some really helpful resources in this article to try and help get you started off in the right direction.
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December 4th, 2009
I already know what your first reaction is, and yes. Seriously. Myspace is looking to integrate Facebook Connect into it’s monster of a social networking website sometime in 2010.
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