2007

Search for blogs and sites that do follow your signature links!

Here I announce the launch of a Google Custom Search: DoFollow Blogs / Sites Search Engine. It’s a movement after Randa Clay. Thanks to Courtney and Colleen, I’m able to build up the do-follow list with more than 300 blogs that do follow your comment links! But please do remember to comment like a human, …

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DreamHost Promo Codes, Coupons and Discount Codes for Cheap Web Hosting

Update: You may want to read a more recent review of DreamHost. DreamHost is definitely one of the best cheap web hosting companies in the world that answers to affordable but reliable hosting needs. Based at California, the Internet hub at the west coast of U.S., DreamHost comes armed with very unique hosting solutions for …

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Differences of function.apply() and function.call() in JavaScript

Function object methods function.apply() and function.call() basically do the same job, that is to invoke the function as if it was the method of a specified object so that the ‘this’ keyword within the function is treated as that object rather than the global object. var x = 20; function f(s) { alert(this.x + s); …

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DOM event detection: event bubbling and event capturing

There’s essentially 2 ways for the DOM to detect any events, namely event capturing and event bubbling. Event capturing is a method that the browser captures the event from the top elements to the bottom where the event actually takes place. For example, the moment you click on an <img> which is the child of …

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Make elements translucent & semi-transparent with CSS – the bulletproof solution to CSS transparency

Take a div of class translucent for example, you can literally make it translucent with the following CSS rules. It’s bulletproof, meaning that all the browsers will render it as you have specified. Enjoy! div.translucent { /* this class makes a window partially transparent */ opacity: .5; /* Standard style for transparency */ -moz-opacity: .5; …

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JavaScript: Changing Browser Window Width / Height

This petite JavaScript snippet defines several functions in the namespace of Geometry that will come handy when you need to manipulate window geometry, freeing you from the depressing chores of distinguishing different browsers for their distinct implementations of virtually the same features. /** * This module defines functions for querying window and document geometry. * …

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Stop diluting the page theme, but siloing

Link(v.), only when it’s absolutely necessary, especially on your premier pages (landing pages from search engines) that have a touching relation with the sales. Every offsite link you make on the page, and even onsite links to other pages, dilutes the theme you intend to rank for in search engines, thus effectively bringing down the …

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What is PHP framework & Who are the Best PHP Frameworks?

Basically, PHP frameworks are programming layers that are promoted above PHP itself and that are much easier and quicker to deploy, normalizing and packaging 80% of the routines one is expected to work on without them, such as database interfaces. Therefore they free you from the chores of coding from very scratch line by line …

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Joyfulness is the ultimate secret for any successful website

Be a happy webmaster, I must say to myself, to whom I owe the joyfulness of making websites. I shall from now on make websites for the only sake of my own enjoyment and confidence. And I believe it’s the only way to a successful website. It endures and delivers. It dominates. Because joyfulness itself …

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Law: The Measurement of Copyright Fair Use – 4 Essential Subjective Guidelines

Someday you came across a copyrighted picture that goes perfectly with your own content and wanted to embed it in your texts with a link to the original source, wondering if this action was allowed by law. By your ethical holdings and legal awareness, after failure to reach the owner, you decided to take the …

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Link building and content development, who is the King?

Just roaming about some forums to feed myself with daily new information when I came across something worth taking a look. http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/51295-not-what-but-where.html Above is an interesting discussion of whether linking rules over content or the other way around. I’d say it was indeed not something I, as an SEO novice, had expected. John Scott, and …

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What is wrong with ‘Supplemental result’?

Many a new website such as this one, who has just made its way into Google’s database and got indexed a dozen of pages, might have quite a number of pages ‘indexed’ as ‘Supplemental result’. Use “site:yourwebsite.com” as the phrase in Google search, then jump to SERPs buried behind. Do you got any of these? …

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HTML5 adopted by W3C

News for the web development community: The new W3C HTML Working Group has voted to adopt the HTML5 draft specification comprising the Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications developed and copyrighted as far by major browser companies Mozilla Foundation, Apple Inc., and Opera Software ASA under the umbrella of WHAT-WG, or Web Hypertext …

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