Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important ingredients for getting large amounts of traffic to your website besides high-quality content. Because once your articles are a few weeks old, the majority of the traffic to those articles will come from search engines. That's why it's important to rank high in search engines.
In this article I'm going to show you 10 basic SEO tips that you should keep in mind when writing a new article or developing a new website to make sure your blog ranks high in the search engines.
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Following a large amount of blogs consumes a lot of time and visiting them all one by one to see if they posted new content is very time consuming. That's why a lot of people use RSS Readers to get the RSS Feeds from the blogs they wish to follow and read the feeds via the RSS Reader. What a lot of people don't know is that you can add content to these RSS Feeds to increase the quality of the feed(unless you fill it with ads of course).
In this article I'm going to show you how to add a Footer with some content to your RSS Feed and how to add social bookmarking links to your RSS feed so your readers can retweet your posts and more.
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Posted by JP on January 22nd, 2010 in Coding | 5 Comments
Bit.ly is currently the most popular URL shorting service out there and for a good reason too. With bit.ly you can track your shortened URLs and much more. In this article I'm going to show you how to use bit.ly's api create bit.ly urls automatically for WordPress posts.
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Posted by JP on January 22nd, 2010 in Coding | 52 Comments
Apache's .htaccess(hypertext access) configuration file can be a very powerful tool in a web developer's toolkit if used properly. It can be found in the webroot of your server and can be easily edited using any text editor. In this article I'm going to show you 20 .htaccess hacks and how to use them.
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Most web developers out there know that there is no browser better than FireFox for developing websites. This is because of all the amazing add-ons the FireFox community has created over the years to help make FireFox the browser of choice for most of us.
In this article I'm going to show you 10 FireFox Add-Ons that every web developer should be using.
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Posted by JP on January 14th, 2010 in Coding | No Comments
Celebrating jQuery 4th birthday, the jQuery team has released jQuery 1.4 today!
The new release is packed with new features, enhancements and performance increases. So, in order to spread jQuery 1.4 awareness, I've compiled a list of 6 useful jQuery 1.4 resources to help you get familiar with the new version.
The jQuery team is also accepting donations and giving free jQuery eBooks for those who donate more than $20.
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Posted by JP on January 13th, 2010 in Coding | 3 Comments
In today's world wide web, CSS is the most used method of styling websites. The use of tables is now mostly a thing of the past, even though you might still come across old websites once in a while that use tables for layout once in a while. There are tons of reasons why one should use CSS to layout a website over any other method.
With millions of websites being created every month, knowing how to create a website in today's world is becoming almost as important as knowing how to drive a car. In this article I will show you 6 tutorials you need to go through in order to go from knowing absolutely nothing about CSS, to writing advanced CSS code.
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Posted by JP on January 12th, 2010 in Coding | 9 Comments
Optimizing the performance of a website is often neglected by web developers due to laziness or just not knowing what can be done to speed up their website. One thing most developers don't realize is that if a page is taking too long to load, allot of users will leave the site before the page is finished loading.
Today there are probably over 100 ways to improve the performance of a website. In this article I will show you simple 10 things you can do in less than an hour to speed up your website and see amazing results instantly.
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My name is Jean-Paul Bernadina and I'm a 24 year old web developer and designer that lives on a tiny island in the Caribbean called Curacao(it's right next to Aruba).
In this blog I'll be writing about pretty much anything related to the web development and design industry such as how to speed up your websites, useful code snippets and much more.
I hope you guys will enjoy this blog as much as I will!
