Year: 2009

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WordPress is growing to be the most popular blogging platform today and since lot of people are using it, it’s quite possible that your blog looks like just another blog in that pool of 1000’s of blogs. So, to make it stand out amongst the crowd, here are some Must Do’s for your WordPress blogs.

People are busy, and in order to gain and keep readership as a blogger, you need to provide your readers with information that makes their lives better, easier, and less stressful. Business blogs are a unique case because the general subject matter tends to be a bit dry. It’s up to you as the blogger to overcome that obstacle and provide the business information you are offering in a quick and easily digestible way. How do you do that? Here are seven ways you can engage readers of your business blog and keep them coming back.

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As we see more and more businesses move their services online, and even more that begin their life on the Web, a greater need arises for websites that are designed and built to sell. A great-looking website may achieve the goal of shaping and delivering a strong brand, but its good looks alone aren’t enough to sell the products or services on offer. For that, you need to introduce the element of marketing.

Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS's framework. It's been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love. It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin', CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!

The everyday tasks in our lives are being revolutionized by technology. One task that technology is helping to simplify is shopping: the task of buying products in stores is just not as convenient as online shopping. With that in mind, it is becoming more and more important to pay attention to the usability of e-commerce websites. When customers want to buy a product, they want the process to be quick and easy, without any hassles. Here are 10 tips to help you create usable e-commerce checkouts and shopping carts.

Why is this important to you, the online merchant? As of October 2008, new online merchants with over 20,000 transactions per year cannot even recieve an online merchant account if they are not compliant in one way or another. However, beginning this year merchant account providers will start to "decertify" non-PABP applications, revok merchant accounts that are not using PABP certified applications and deny merchant applications to new applications that are not PABP certified. In 2010, all merchants will be required to be using a PABP certified application.

Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect. These details give the designer total control, allowing them to create beautiful and consistent typography in their designs. While these details can be applied across different types of media, in this articles we’re going to focus on how to apply them to web design using CSS. Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.

CSS has several options for defining the styles of text. These options can entirely replace the <font> tag, but there's even more. CSS allows you to define these styles much more powerfully than you could ever do with plain HTML.

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New Theme Forums – The comment thread on this page is getting way too long, so I’ve opened up a support forum for This Just In and Get Some! If you have any questions, please post them in the appropriate forum over here. These are the freely available themes here on WordPress Hacker. All I ask in exchange for the time and effort I put into creating these themes is that you leave the credit link back to this site in the footer…thanks in advance for helping to give proper credit in this way! Enjoy!

Some people really love Star Wars. So, to show their love, they will go to great lengths to dress up as their favorite characters for nerd conventions, nerd parties and any other nerd-based gatherings. Here are some of the worst. (Although, that first Chewbacca picture might qualify as the best. I can't tell anymore.)

(CNN) — Experts watched warily Wednesday as a worm infecting millions of computers activated itself as predicted on April 1. However fears the Conficker.c worm would cause chaos have so far proved unfounded, with no reports of major problems. "As long as you've patched or at least brought your antivirus software up to speed, you should be fine," said Chris Pirillo, a tech expert for CNN.com. And there are plenty of anti-virus software packages available. "I believe just about everybody out there," Pirillo said, "has a removal tool." Still, the worm could cause problems, he said. Unlike viruses, worms self propagate, spreading by networks. "Once it's out there, it's very difficult to stop," Pirillo said.

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As you may already be familiar with footer, the footer is a last and significant element in a web design, as well as the coolest place to display Twitter updates, popular posts, recent comments, and Flickr photo streams are just a few common ideas. I have fetched some of the most creative footer posts from multiple blogs which will inspire you. Go ahead and check out these footers which make it stand out of the rest. Let us know your best pick!

Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies – we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to do amazing things. We're studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance. Our team includes entrepreneurs, investors and innovators, along with some 20,000+ exceptional Googlers whose breadth of knowledge, experience and creativity constitute perhaps our own most valuable resource. You don't have to be a potential Google acquisition for us to want to work with you; we're out to build great companies, period. We look forward to learning whether yours is one of them.

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Account executive Darcy Knapp, of Network Solutions in New York, agrees: “Social networking sites are a terrific medium to reach new, existing and previously lost clients,” and they will become even more important as the Web becomes the primary source of information.

“IN RECENT years, consumers have become used to feasting on online freebies of all sorts: news, share quotes, music, e-mail and even speedy internet access. These days, however, dotcoms are not making news with yet more free offerings, but with lay-offs—and with announcements that they are to start charging for their services.” These words appeared in The Economist in April 2001, but they’re just as applicable today. During the dotcom boom, the idea got about that there could be such a thing as a free lunch, or at least free internet services. Firms sprang up to offer content and services online, in the hope that they would eventually be able to “monetise” the resulting millions of “eyeballs” by selling advertising. Things did not work out that way, though, and the result was the dotcom crash. Companies tried other business models, such as charging customers for access, but very few succeeded in getting people to pay up.

Maurice Sendak’s classic book Where the Wild Things Are comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.

At Dog Academy, we are passionate about your dog's health, happiness and well-being. We offer the best-in-class of dog products – high-quality, long-lasting, safe and absolutely adorable! Our proven dog training supplies will help you train your dog in obedience, correct problem behaviors and play fun and rewarding games with your puppy or dog. We sell basic necessities such as collars, leashes, crates and toys as well as luxury items like beds, apparel, gifts and designer accessories. And what Campus Store is complete without party supplies?! Here you'll find Halloween Costumes, birthday gifts, Christmas gifts for dogs and other items to celebrate special occasions with your furry friends!

Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance. Its wide applicability in this golden age of blogging, along with its considerable difficulty, is what has earned the layout the title of Holy Grail. Many articles have been written about the grail, and several good templates exist. However, all the existing solutions involve sacrifices: proper source order, full-width footers, and lean markup are often compromised in the pursuit of this elusive layout.