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Validate The XHTML For A Whole Site In One Click

I got an email this morning from Shahar telling me about a XHTML tool that he’s released that I’m sure will prove very popular. Shahar has written a XHMTL validation tool that validates a whole site in one click, rather than a page at a time like other tools. This is fantastic as [...]

24May2008 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Speedup Your Website With HTML Optimizer Pro

I normally don’t buy applications like HTML Optimizer Pro, but I’ve been very impressed with the reductions it has made to the size of the files in my new theme, making my pages load even faster. In a broadband world you may question the need for products like HTML Optimizer Pro, but if you have [...]

20May2008 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Sexy New Theme For The Site!!!

It’s been a long time coming, and after recruiting two designers, but I’ve finally settled on a WordPress theme I like. This theme is by far the easiest I’ve ever used, especially when you consider how much functionality it has. It’s so easy to use that it only took me a few hours [...]

16May2008 | Everton | 15 comments | Continued
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How To Whip The Competition In Organic Search Results

You know what organic search results are, right? That’s the listing that comes up when a user types in some keywords into google’s search box. It differs from PPC campaigns, such as the intrusive adword ads you see in the sidebar.
Middle last year, I’ve been experimenting with ways to increase clicks on my organic results. [...]

22Apr2008 | Joseph Plazo | 17 comments | Continued
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10 Insane Ways To Build Links

Are you white hat or black hat? White hat SEOs build inbound links at a steady pace and focus on quality, rather than quantity. Black hat SEOs take the opposite route and funnel in as many links as possible in a bid to create brand awareness.
They don’t care if their activities yield poor quality [...]

7Mar2008 | Joseph Plazo | 8 comments | Continued
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WordPress Blog And Server Optimisation Masterclass: Introduction

I’ve been blogging for nearly 3 years now and this site has gone from a handful of page impressions and dollars per day to around 600k page impressions and $15k per month. In that time I’ve moved hosts a few times, moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server, changed blogging platforms, tried numerous plugins [...]

1Mar2008 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Tag Cloud - Do You Have One On Your Site?

WordPress 2.3 added much needed tag support, but I haven’t seen a lot of sites making much use of the capability. One feature I haven’t seen many live examples of are Tag Clouds. I tried adding a tag cloud to my sidebar today, but I ran into a few problems which exposed problems [...]

3Feb2008 | Everton | 16 comments | Continued
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4 Exceptional Commercial Wordpress Themes

Wordpress has not enjoyed a large community of commercial theme designers. You can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a free Wordpress theme, and most of the successful bloggers who do use a commercial theme paid for a one-off design, or had one made for them gratis. More and more CMS style [...]

27Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 11 comments | Continued
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Use Any Font On Your Site With sIFR

Most blogs/websites whenever they want to have some fancy text for headlines/nav usually resort to using an image. This becomes a burden whenever you want to change things, and isn’t as good for SEO as plain old text. Enter sIFR, a javascript method for using *any* font on a webpage with little to [...]

27Jan2008 | Kline | 15 comments | Continued
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Joomla! 1.5 Stable Released

Two and a half years of development came to fruition today, when it was announced that Joomla! 1.5 Stable was made available for download.
Joomla! 1.5 is a major rewrite of the core Joomla! codebase, which was forked from Mambo on August 17, 2005. Joomla! 1.0.x retained a great measure of compatibility with Mambo, but Joomla! [...]

25Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 3 comments | Continued
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