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CSS & JavaScript: Increase Page Load Speed by Compressing Files

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As a website owner, you must pay attention to how quickly your website loads. In order to obtain high speed page loads across your website, compressing your CSS and JavaScript can do just the trick. You may have tried the conventional Gzip compression tools after you uploaded your files to your server, but you should also consider these tools that offer you better compression rates before you actually upload your files.

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Posted on 23 March 2011 • 1 comment

Implementing OnChange and OnKeyUp Event Using jQuery (Select Box)

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Of course there is nothing wrong if you implement onChange event using the traditional way, that is by adding onchange=”" attribute to the HTML element. However, your codes can be better in some ways if you do it using jQuery.

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Posted on 21 March 2011 • 3 comments

Shared Web Hosting – Good vs Bad

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When you first created a website, most likely you will go for shared web hosting first because the cost is low. It is always good to start low, save some money and upgrade the hosting service when the number of visitors has become too much for shared web hosting to withstand.

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Posted on 7 March 2011 • 1 comment

URL Canonicalization (Canonization) Using PHP

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When your website can be accessed via several URLs, such as http://www.example.com & http://example.com, you might want to decide a best URL and use only that URL whenever you link back to your site, because this helps your site in terms of SEO.

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Posted on 13 February 2011 • 0 comment

Get Current Opacity in MSIE using jQuery (Cross Browser Codes)

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When I was developing theme, I found a weird problem in IE8. This is the case: I have a DIV that has opacity of 0.4. When I use $(elem).css(‘opacity’) to get its current opacity, it works fine in all browser except IE8, which return opacity of 1.

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Posted on 27 January 2011 • 2 comments

Common Web Hosting Problems and How to Avoid them

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Setting up your site with the wrong web host can lead to different problems that can have a huge impact on your online business. In this article you will get to know the problems commonly encountered by site owners and learn how to address them:

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Posted on 23 April 2010 • 4 comments

5 Common xHTML Validation Errors

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You can validate your website using this validation service. Recently I have updated all my free wordpress themes to be 100% xhtml valid. After validating each of them, I found that there were some common errors…

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Posted on 14 January 2010 • 4 comments

Embedding Youtube Videos – Tips and Passing xHTML Validation

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If you use the default code given by youtube to embed a video, you will notice that it failed to pass xHTML validation. This is because <embed> was deprecated in favor of the <object></object> element.

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Posted on 4 December 2009 • 6 comments

Create SEO Friendly URLs With Htaccess Mod Rewrite in 3 Easy Steps

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An example of SEO friendly URL can be seen in this page. Compare it with urls like http://mysite.com/?t=34 , you will find it easier to remember and the it also clearly tells you what this page is about. Furthermore, the words in the URL might match the search keywords, bringing more traffic from search engines.

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Posted on 18 November 2009 • 28 comments

SEO for PHPBB3 – Site Title, Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions

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No offence, but the fact is phpBB has a lot of weaknesses, not seo-friendly being one of them. However, with some simple steps you can improve the SEO of your phpBB. Here in this guide, we will add some basic SEO features to your phpBB by using a better Site Title, adding Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions.

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Posted on 13 November 2009 • 12 comments
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