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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
photo credit: manu contreras
Whenever you create something (take a photograph, make a logo, write an article, etc) the copyright for this product is yours, whether you express it or register it or not. No one can use this product without your (usually written) permission.
However, now people start seeing more benefits of sharing their work […]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
As I wrote in Blogging Notes I discovered another importance for having a glossary: it can be listed when people look for definitions on Google using the define: operator if you have the definition in your glossary.
I am going through my whole site now to see if there are words that may be unclear to […]
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
In an article about helping your visitors to browse your content on Blogging Notes, I explained why providing search is important for a blog. In that article I mentioned that you can even make some money by adding Google Adsense for Search to your website.
Google Adsense for Search can display results of searches on your […]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
I often see that templates are made with transparent PNG images, which show a gray background in Internet Explorer 6, instead of the transparency. However, with a couple of extra steps, it’s easy to create a transparent PNG image with The Gimp that also works in IE6.
What’s up with this bug?
For some reason Internet Explorer […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Although my stats prove differently, studies still show that most Internet users still use Internet Explorer 6.
When building websites, it’s important to keep an eye on these statistics, especially since browsers tend to display websites differently. IE up to version 6 have an own agenda when it comes to displaying contents and handling styles. That’s […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
When viewing a site without styles enabled, it’s clear which links you have clicked already and which not. The unvisited links are blue and the visited links are burgundy reddish. This is done to let visitors know where they have already been, what they have already read. It can also serve as a reminder where […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
I am working on a website for a local tour operator at the moment. On this site there will be a list of available tours. Since it’s a simple list, with the name of the tour, a short description, the number of days the tour takes and the price, I decided to make list the […]
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
This post is guest blogged by Nathan from NotSoBoringLife.
Have you ever had a really great idea but just didn’t know how to make it happen? Maybe you just don’t have the time to code a site from the ground up. I spend the majority of my days in front of a computer and […]
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
In my previous article I spoke about reasons why it’s better to use web standards when designing websites instead of tables.
Simonne Mathew found my blog through BegforPost, where bloggers can shamelessly beg for a review of their site. He decided to review my blog. In this review, it were these words that impressed me:
Rehuel […]
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
When I started with web design in 2000, I learned how to make a website stick to it’s design by using tables.
It was kinda like an art to be able to use the right amount of nested tables to get the site to look just like the design. To Rafiek, Guillermo and I virtually […]
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