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Make Pictures Move with Only CSS

January 25, 2009

The New York Post uses this method for its top-of-the-page navigation. Go to their page and hover over their navigation tabs. The background changes…sort of. Actually, it’s the same image. Using CSS what they are doing is they are switching which part of the image is displayed. When it’s just sitting there, you see the [...]

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Watch Barack Obama’s Innauguration

January 16, 2009

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Dare to be Search Engine Optimized

January 14, 2009

A few months ago, I went through the entire brown spectator site and changed permalinks. First, I went to a shorter permalink structure. Then, I went page by page cleaning my slugs and filling them with keywords and phrases that people might search. Now, changing your slugs is not an easy decision to make. Changing [...]

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The Prettiest Little Breadcrumbs I Ever Seen

January 5, 2009

Just as a point of reference, I love the Guardian’s breadcrumbs. That is all.

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WordPress Theme

December 18, 2008

Wanna build a wordpress theme from the ground up? That’s noble of you. I started constructing an user guide that would get anyone who wanted to do it started, but the task was tedius. I still want to do it, but not today. In the meantime, there are others who’ve already undertaken the task. List [...]

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Caching for Super SEO

December 16, 2008

A lot of these Open CMS frameworks use a lot of calls to the database in order to generate their content. One of the sites I work with has been pretty well traficked. But I increased traffic overnight by 20% simply by using the WP Super Cache plugin. For WordPress, WP Super Cache is an [...]

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SpiderMarket’s Facelift

December 14, 2008

So, I figured that this is a blog focused on internet magazines and newspapers. I talk a lot about SEO, Great Tools to use on your site, and other such blather, so it seemed a bit inappropriate that my site looked so terrible. So, after a bit of work, I’ve begun the process of both [...]

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The Internet Model: How Magazines and Newspapers Need to Approach the Web

December 13, 2008

When blogs were first introduced, they were heralded as a new medium that had the potential to revolutionize news. Sure enough, they did. At the time, no one quite knew how to monetize blogs, but since the introduction of various advertising services such as google adsense and newegg that problem has been solved. Since the [...]

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Monetizing Your Magazine

December 8, 2008

Today was a big day in publishing. It looks like the Chicago Tribune is going bankrupt, and the Miami Herald was put on the auction block by cash-starved McClatchy. What does failing conglomerates mean? Opportunity! The problem with printing is that they are stuck in a model. For years, newspapers focused on Classified ads to [...]

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