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Transparent Little Dropdown Menu
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Jacqueline Sinex So you have some dropdown menus on your website, but you would like to make them a little fancier. With just a little effort in your stylesheet, you can add a nice transparency effect to the background of the dropdown list. The css is usually applied to the style id created for the drop down [...]
Read moreMinimizing Javascript
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Jacqueline Sinex Sometimes a little bit of javascript is necessary to control certain features in a website, such as a simple slideshow element on a page, which was a better choice over the heavy Flash animation. But as organic SEO becomes more prominent, we must learn to minimize the presence of javascript among our web page code, [...]
Read moreWhy META tags still matter.
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Bryan Lokey You may not know it but you see the results of the META title and description tags every time you use a search engine. The title and short description that is displayed on the Search Engine Results Page (or SERP) is actually taken directly from the META tags coded into your site. META tags are [...]
Read moreEasy (and free) Link Building Techniques
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Morgan You need “link juice” to increase your site’s ranking in the SERPs. Here are a few easy, free link building tactics that can be used by any business owner! Donate your services to a good cause or have an event that will draw media attention. Remember to take lots of pictures and video for posting [...]
Read moreTech Tips: Put a Twitter Badge on Your Page
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Bobby Martinez Twitter is one of the hottest trends on the internet right now. For those of you not in the know, it’s what is called a microblogging service. It’s basically a page that stores any number of text updates, limited to 160 characters maximum. It’s almost like uploading SMS messages for everyone to see, allowing you [...]
Read moreHow to tell if your website server is down
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Bobby Martinez Are you asking yourself “Is my website down?” There are many, many different things that can cause a connection error between between you and your website. Just because you can’t load your website, it doesn’t mean that your web hosting server is actually down. If your web browser is displaying a connection error, try these [...]
Read moreHow to Make a Website: 3 Easy Step-by-Step Instructions
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Bobby Martinez You don’t need to be intimidated by the internet. It’s merely a collection of interconnected websites, and websites are actually very simple things. They are files that people can access through Internet Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. See? It’s not so scary when you break it down to its simplest [...]
Read moreHow To: Send Free SMS Text Messages
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Bobby Martinez Today we’re going to learn how you can send free SMS Text messages to other people’s mobile phones. In order to do this, we’re going to harness the awesome, unyielding, raw power service of win that is Google Mail (GMail). 1) If you don’t already have one, sign up for a Google Mail Account: Free [...]
Read moreHow To: Turn a Photo From Color into Black and White For Free in 1 Minute.
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Bobby Martinez Easy, just use Photoshop, right? Sure, that would be the easiest way. However, Adobe Photoshop can cost anywhere upwards of a thousand dollars, so this isn’t something that just anyone can use. Most likely, you would have to be at a company, or a school, or have amassed a golden empire not unlike the master [...]
Read moreHow To: Stop Search Engines From Indexing Certain Pages
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Bobby Martinez Did you know that you can stop Google from indexing certain pages in your website? You can, with a certain tool called “robots.txt” Robots.txt , as you might have already guessed, is a text file that you can put on your website that will direct programs that crawl the web (web crawling bots) and give [...]
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