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140 named colors that are recognized in html and css.

click the image of the table to see the entire list at colorschemer.com

admin :: Aug.27.2007 :: Webmasters, web dev :: No Comments »

3 minutes and 40 seconds of awesome Ajax performance. Watch the video and you’ll be amazed.
visit Ajax widgets .

admin :: Aug.24.2007 :: Ajax, Webmasters, web dev :: No Comments »

link to css  cheat sheet

admin :: Aug.23.2007 :: Webmasters, css, web dev :: No Comments »

very good tutorial on how to create great looking ccs styled tables.
read it here

admin :: Aug.22.2007 :: Webmasters, css, design, web dev :: No Comments »

great top ten list of mistakes most webmasters make. Read them and learn them by heart!

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

admin :: Aug.21.2007 :: Webmasters, interesting, web dev :: No Comments »

This is a must read for every webmaster !

19 things not to do when building a website

admin :: Aug.17.2007 :: Search Engines, Webmasters, interesting, web dev :: No Comments »

This is  a must read for bloggers! very useful tips from Matt Cutts (Google Software engineer). He shares some very valuable information in his post. He shares his PowerPoint presentation from WorldCamp 2007 talk.
If you are a blogger or even think about setting up a blog you should really read this and subscribe to Matt Cutts blog… all those little tips can make the difference between a small blog that nobody reads to a very successful blog.

Matt Cutts Blog

Whitehat SEO for bloggers by Matt Cutts 

admin :: Aug.10.2007 :: SEO, Search Engines, Webmasters, google, web dev :: No Comments »

Awesome 10 step GIMP video tutorial

• Lesson 1: GIMP Basics
• Lesson 2: Selective Decolorization
• Lesson 3: Make a thumping picture in GIMP
• Lesson 4: Render Images in GIMP
• Lesson 5: Make a Superkaramba (A-foto) decoration
• Lesson 6: How to make a banner
• Lesson 7: Alter an image
• Lesson 8: Lightning
• Lesson 9: Retouching a Photo
• Lesson 10: The User Interface

VnTutor: 10 GIMP Video Lessons online

admin :: Aug.05.2007 :: GIMP, Webmasters, video tutorials, web dev :: No Comments »

Let’s talk a bit about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO means to optimize your websites / webpages in a way that will help the Search engines (google, yahoo, live, etc’) to find your site and to send you a decent amount of visitors. Common believe is that traffic (visitors) that come from the Search Engines are the best kind of traffic for a website, since they found you after they searched for whatever you are offering. Let me give you some ideas on how to optimize your site the “good way” (not the “bad way” - black hat). Some webmasters over-do the SEO so much that their site is almost unusable - very very bad…. Others optimize their sites for the wrong search terms… Some get blacklisted by the Search Engines for spamming or using Black hat methods…

I have gathered some tips that you should read and think about:

• Build your webpage for the visitor and NOT for the search engine.
• META tags are the business card of your website - write your META tags well
• Remember that search engines cannot read your images - use the alt tag
• Your site should have unique and useful content - if you have that - other sites will link to you (links from other sites to you are a very good thing for search engines)
• Don’t copy text from other websites - Google might punish you for “duplicate content“
• I can’t stress this enough - build your site for the visitor!
• Don’t try to be smarter than google - you aren’t … don’t try to pull any dirty tricks (hidden text, very small text, keyword stuffing, etc’) Google improves it’s algorithm from day to day.
• Check your server logs and make sure you have no dead links on your site (you might have a great written article on your site, but no one can reach it…)
• Use a robots.txt file to tell the Search Engine spiders where to look and where not to (sensitive data, member only areas)
• Make sure that your navigation is readable for the Search engines (HTML and not images…)
• Validate your coding
• Read the google webmaster section

These are only some tips to get you started. Read the guides, FAQ, guidelines, help sections almost all Search Engines offer to webmasters, read, read and read some more…

admin :: Jul.27.2007 :: SEO, Webmasters, google, web dev :: No Comments »

I really like Ubuntu. I have installed several different Linux systems on my test machine during the last few years. I tried Fedora, DSL, Lindows (known as Linspire now) and and much more… They all had one thing in common - i installed them, but couldn’t find anything that would keep me using them. I would always return to my Windows Box.

But since Ubuntu 7 my world has changed… From the first boot from the Live CD i noticed something new… Linux was usable and even a dummy like me could work on it. I found a great guide (The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn) on how to transform the default Ubuntu 7 installation into a desktop that could do everything Windows XP could do (except sending error messages to Microsoft :P). The guide creates a list of apps most windows users use and explains step by step with lots of screenshots on how to accomplish all that with Ubuntu. If you go through the guide from the beginning to the end you will find a desktop that does (almost) everything - from picture editing, Skype, Google earth, Bittorrent and emule. It takes some time and might look like “Chinese for advanced students” sometimes, but be patient and walk through the entire guide.

After installing everything (and even starting to understand some stuff) i used my Ubuntu setup more and more. Except one thing i still couldn’t figure out how to do - using Ubuntu as a webserver where i can work locally on my websites. I needed a way to install apache, php and mysql. As always i turned to my good friend and helper - google. After some searching and clicking around i found another great guide (also from howtoforge.com) - “Installing LAMP on Ubuntu for Newbies“. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP… that was exactly what i was looking for… After installing LAMP on Ubuntu, my Ubuntu station became my main developing workstation and i just can’t get enough of it…

admin :: Jul.24.2007 :: Linux, OS, Ubuntu, web dev :: No Comments »