Are hidden-text penalties a hoax? There are more articles about why hidden text is bad for SEO than the number of tacos I’ve consumed over my life-time. And I freaking love tacos. Anyway, I was redesigning my website, and I thought it would be cute to alter the HTML of a Google search result page [...]
Read the full article⇒Sequential fade-ins, or the fading in of elements one after the other, establish a sense of professionalism for a website. Additionally, the fade-in helps guide the user’s eyes to the content you find most important. Since sequential fade-ins rely extensively on proper usage of jQuery’s .delay() method, I felt it would benefit you to learn [...]
Read the full article⇒Anyone who keeps up with the development of CSS3 knows that CSS3 can do some cool things. Super Cool Web Design Things Cool things have been around in web design ever since someone got the stupid brilliant idea of using spacer.gifs. Among the cool things that have plagued graced the internet over its lifetime are: [...]
Read the full article⇒I have always trusted PayPal when it comes to online transactions. I’ve never had an issue with account security. However, Paypal has managed to greatly irritate me today with semantics that obviously don’t match up to what’s written. The Issue I have two bank accounts. My primary checking account and a school account with a [...]
Read the full article⇒Yup, you heard me right. I wish iPhone and iPad apps were more expensive. Why? Not because I’m some rich kid that wants to hold the cool toys from the proletariat. The Higher-End Shut Out The simple reason is that the $.99 average price for an iPhone app is shutting out the big game/software development [...]
Read the full article⇒Between the commonly used programming languages, C++ is relatively strict on how it handles dynamic memory allocation. The trade off is that you, the programmer, have much more control over how memory is allocated. The downside is you have to follow some seemingly complex logic in order to make dynamic allocation occur correctly. While in [...]
Read the full article⇒Ranking highly in Google’s local results is extremely important for local companies. What can be frustrating for a company is ranking #1 in the organic results but not appearing in the local listings at all! What’s even more irritating is that some of the local results ranking above you don’t even link to an official [...]
Read the full article⇒My review of jQuery in Action. Overall I was not very pleased with the book. Very few examples, and the ones provided were mundane and irrelevant to real-world situations. Very sluggish pace and very unsatisfying. I highly recommend jQuery for Absolute Beginners as an alternative. Related Posts:A Break from jQueryA jQuery Development PatternjQuery Sticky Scroller [...]
Read the full article⇒I’ve noticed a trend on web design companies portfolio pages: They make it hard to view the work done for their clients live. Instead of letting the viewer actually visit the sites of the clients directly from the portfolio page, the page will just bring up an overlay to view a larger print screen. If [...]
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