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WordPress seo checklist

August 27th 2009

This article gets a WordPress blog installed and SEO optimised. Its advised that you test the site for W3C HTML and CSS validation each step of the way, especially checking your chosen theme is compliant. The blog files will be located on your web servers domain within the httpdocs folder. If you want to install [...]

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Shape tweening text

August 21st 2009

Flash CS3 cannot shape tween text, only basic shapes. Hence to tween a letter it must be first converted to a shape. Select the text tool and type a letter “A” at frame 1. Press escape to exit out of text mode. Select frame 20 and insert a keyframe (F6). This represents a change in [...]

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Google supplemental index

August 21st 2009

The supplemental index is a secondary index for lower ranking pages and doesn’t contribute anything to your sites visibility on Google. Pages found in the supplemental index tend to be crawled less often and will never be assigned PageRank. As a result, these pages tend to appear lower in organic search results. There are many [...]

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Google search tips

August 21st 2009

A bunch of useful google tips to improve your searches and allow you to do a lot more than just basic searching with google. Reference : The google story by David A.Vise (1) Google can be your phone book – Type a buisness name, city and state to get a number or type the number [...]

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Creating symbols for motion tweens

August 20th 2009

This tutorial shows you how to create symbols for use in adobe flash CS3 motion tweens. Extra instances of symbols used does not increase required memory resources. In the library tab select the “new symbol” icon. Then enter its name and select “graphic”. Draw the graphic on the stage. Notice it now appears in the [...]

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W3 Schools Training

August 12th 2009

Full web site building tutorials. W3 delivers quick and easy learning. At W3Schools, you can study everything you need to learn, in an accessible and handy format

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Web page meta tags

August 9th 2009

META Tags can be used for excluding content from search engine crawlers. It is also used when you cannot upload a robots.txt file. Its purpose is to keep content out of search engine indexes.  They should be added between the HEAD section of your page(s) in question: (no)index determines whether the crawler should index this page. [...]

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Designing a robots.txt file

August 9th 2009

Search engines collate an image of the internet by searching it, using a special program called a spider. This spider, sometimes called bot, retrieves a map of the internet and all its web pages and files. This map is then used as data to compile results for queries we type into the search engines like [...]

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Macbook Hot keys

August 1st 2009

Take a screenshot of desktop - Shft+Cmd+3 Take a screenshot of a selection - Shft+Cmd+4 Take a screenshot of an element - Cmd+Shft+4+Space Screen Zoom Ctrl+Scroll or 2 Fingers, then 1 finger to pan To make a file smaller Select it – File/Save as/Select jpg compression Quit applications – Cmd+Alt+Esc or Alt+Cmd+Esc Delete Fn+backspace Cut, Copy, Paste, All [...]

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Solutions for your mac

August 1st 2009

A list of problems and solutions for your Mac :- An application hangs : Press CMD + ALT + ESC To open files in another application :  Either drag the file to the application while holding CMD + ALT or for a more permanent association Select the file then press APPLE+I/OPEN WITH/OTHER then browse to [...]

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