I've been evaluating a couple of the CMS and template based sytems lately. The new trend seams to be we are SEO friendly, or our product has been optimized for the search engines. After investigation, they usually are talking about site-wide SEO. This is not as good as Per page seo of course. WordPress comes out of the box wit

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No, not the websites that have to do with renting products or services, like wiferental.com. The rental websites I'm discussing are the ones where you actually rent a website, or a website for rent. This article discusses various aspects of a rental website like hosting, addresses, web page design, domains and seo. There sure

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When you spend most of your day to designing and coding, you don't have a lot of extra time to mess with server configuration. But neglecting this aspect of web design can cost you big time in the end. Your server shouldn't be bending you to its will—it should be the other way around. .htaccess is the key. You probably

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Tied to the internet productivity movement is the internet uncluttering movement. There are a slew of new websites dedicated to helping you unclutter your home, your work and your life.

I want to contribute to this movement with a manifesto for defeating blog clutter. Blog clutter is the stuff your readers really don’t need, and it serves

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This article takes a critical look at the new BloggingZoom redesign. If you were here for the transition, you probably know why—the new design is quite shocking. BloggingZoom recently claimed that it's a major contender in the social news arena, poised to overtake Digg in fact. They have a long way to go but if that's g

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All bloggers are guilty in tracking their stats - it is a simple fact of life. We try to get as many possible angles as possible and install multitude of tracking plugins, add external code that will help us analyze the performance of our blog.

But all those packages intorduce a huge delay to page load speed. As I have

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Blogging is all about displaying your personality and nothing say it as loud as a great looking theme. In this post I want to cover what in my personal opinion are 10 best web 2.0 WordPress themes.

While this is just my personal opinion I’m guide

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As I mentioned my a previous post it is time to really organize my blogging! But my blog is not really MY blog it is yours. As I showed in my stats post, it is my visitors that are make it a success beyond what I thought it would do.

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I found this site while Stumbling. I thought these would be 15 cheesy principals, but as it has turned out, they are well thought out. I would go as far as to recommend printing them out and sticking them within view of your work area. These principles are thought provoking for any Internet Marketer whether you're using a blog

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For any ecommerce website, it is very important to revisit and reevaluate your web design once in a while to ensure it still achieves the goals you originally hoped for. After all, every website can be improved, right?

So what do you do when improvements aren't enough and you need to start from scratch?

There are many co

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On January 1st, 2008 a blog somewhere out there released one of the most beautiful blog themes I have seen. Yet nobody knew. That is until that blog posted a photoshop tutorial on Good-Tutorials. I found Great Design yesterday while I was fumbling through the latest tutorials online. The second I hit Great Design’s website, I was hooked. The

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After happening upon Rollyo.com last week, I was inspired to build a blog search engine for web designers. Rollyo is short for "roll your own" search engine. It's a simpler Yahoo powered version of Google's Custom Search. I knew as embarked on this mission that I wasn't the first to attempt it. But the wheel can always be made rounder wi

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If you follow Court's blog, you know the power of keyword targeting. Sometimes the hardest part is getting started. This post outlines 6 FREE basic online tools that can be used to research a keyword. All 6 tools are listed in order of use. Everything for ideas, to keyword difficulty, to advertising value, to evaluating your c

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2007 is almost over. Time to start thinking about the future. If you've been designing web sites for more than five years or so, the tools and processes your are using today are completely different than the the ones you used when you started. Gone are the days of and tags, CSS and Javascript finally started working, and my nose goes up ex

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This article discusses the current mass exodus of our local information into the so-called data cloud. Many of us don't even realize it's happening. With all the enticing benefits of the tools in the cloud, the move seems inevitible. But who should we trust? Should we even make the move into the cloud or keep our data to ours

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Apparently this is the week for articles with "2008" in the title. With so many floating around I decided to pick just two to go on the 5 for Friday list—and they're good ones. I'd like to welcome Dustin Brewer to the list this week. His list of Digg-like social networks for designers is a great one and I've enjoyed his other posts as we

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Selling web design for the past seven years has given me the opportunity to hear every objection imaginable. Some are practical—"The price is too high". Some are emotional—"We don't want to hurt our other designer's feelings". But they all add up to a big NO. The strategy I've developed through this process, however, is not designed to

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