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Archive for January, 2010
12 Blogs You Must Subscribe To If You’re A Web Designer Or Search Marketer
Jan 13th
Everyone loves a good read, don’t they?!
As web geeks we have to keep our skills up to date and keep on top of what’s going on in the web world. There are daily changes in best practice when it comes to things like SEO, and with Google keeping us on our toes with their winter 2009 changes, we really do need to keep our finger on the pulse. Urgh, buzz talk.
I have to admit; I subscribe to these feeds bu never get chance to keep upto date with everything that the authors publish. It’s a crying shame – but, I More >
10 Essential Tips For Marketing Your Blog
Jan 11th
This is quite a new blog, as of time of writing; like any other decent blogger I’m looking at how I can make this blog a quality resource for people to keep coming back to.
Of course, there are thousands (millions?!) of blogs out there, and choosing the ones you regularly read comes from looking at a number of factors:
- Does the blog contain information that interests you?
- Does the blog get updated regularly?
- Is it a collaborative style of writing or does it employ more forced opinions and discourage comments?
- Does it look good?(!)
Of course there are far more factors influencing whether you bookmark More >
Latest mojoPortal release roundup
Jan 11th
Just a quick one guys; Joe Davis at i7 Media has posted a great little round up of the latest features to be shipped with mojoPortal. As ever, kudos to Joe Audette for his work on mojoportal and check out the mojo forums for helpful posts from both the Joes.Read the latest mojoportal release round up.
Zen Coding by Smashing Magazine’s Sergey Chikuyonok – a web revolution?
Jan 10th
I was doing my usual reading up this weekend and came across a fantastic post on Smashing Magazine’s blog by Sergey Chikuyonik regarding “Zen Coding”.
To quote:
In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
So, it’s shorthand HTML right?
True, but it’s far far more than that; it’s a way of integrating shorthand HTML with common CSS to generate actual code. One line of “Zen Coding”:
html:xt>div#header>div#logo+ul#nav>li.item-$*5>a
Produces a More >
Introducing MojoPortal via YouTube
Jan 8th
Joe Audette over at mojoPortal has just posted a great little YouTube video from Vitaliy Akudovich and Olga Kulahina introducing MojoPortal to people and looking at getting started with the system.
Well worth a look!
