The State of the Internet

Some intriguing data by Focus that may make you want to tweak your web strategy.

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Why Favicons and how to create them

Favicons are tiny touches to your website that say you care about the details. It’s also important for branding. If you’ve already got some form of brand identity, why not put it everywhere you can? Favicons are typically 16×16, 32×32 favicon.ico files that show up in your browser address bar, tabs, as well as bookmarked [...]

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Thesis 1.7 WordPress Framework is coming

This is from Thesis wordpress theme creator Chris Pearson First, I’m going to release Thesis 1.7 over the next couple of weeks. Developers will get a beta version, and then everyone will get the final release once bugs are squashed (I like to think there won’t be any bugs, but then again, I WOULD think [...]

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Designing for Trillions

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Building traffic on a new blog

There’s a lot of talk about the ability to reach thousands through a blog and earning money at the same time, but the reality is it can be incredibly difficult to get going. I put my skills to the test recently and started a fresh niche blog and it’s been going fairly solid so far. [...]

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Customize Google Forms

Google offers up a phenomenally easy way of creating a solid form you can integrate onto any site while integrating it into google spreadsheets on the back-end.  However besides the preset themes they don’t offer up a way to customize it.  ie. change the background color. Here are some tips: the form is embedded in [...]

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Change Category Order

Ever get stuck trying to change the way your categories are ordered, especially in the navigation bar? I just found a very simple way of changing the category order.  I’m using it right now on the menu for this thesis powered site as well. Category Order Plugin There are other ways through making custom pages, [...]

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Rounded Corners in WordPress / Thesis

Rounded corners are extra sexy these days.  Here’s how you can get it on your wordpress page without using transparent image icons. It’s really simple, except that it’s a function of css3 that only works in firefox/safari, but not IE, so it’s not perfect. Here’s all i did in my custom.css .custom #page { /* [...]

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Google Page Rank Update Coming

Google Pagerank update is coming. Google generally updates 4 times a year and it was due in September. Rumors all currently point to an update coming by the end of October. Page Rank especially matters for new sites like this one, where we’re virtually unlisted and devalued until we get scored a pagerank. Now’s your [...]

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