Keyword Targeting: How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions | SEOmoz

Posted on 23/Jan/2010 by Vel

At some point during your University’s SEO 201: Advanced Keyword Research & Targeting class, they probably gave a few lectures and case studies on how to effectively split up your keyword research list across multiple pages and use those terms/phrases to maximum benefit. But, for those who might have missed that lesson (which would be, umm, all of us, since no formal education in SEO exists), a handy refresher might be in order.

Many SEOs struggle to answer questions like:

  • How many keywords can I target on a page?
  • Should I try to target all of my most important terms on my homepage (since it gets the most link juice)?
  • When I should try to target similar phrases together vs. splitting them up?

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75+ Top jQuery Plugins to improve Your HTML Forms

Posted on 23/Jan/2010 by Vel

jQuery makes it easier and simpler to provide your users with high quality, dynamic, good looking and intuitive input forms. This post lists some of the best available in different categories; “Form Element Visual Enhancements”, “Form Element Data Validation and Manipulation”, “Form Tool tips”, “Calendars and date pickers”, “jQuery hot key plugins” etc.

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10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3 | aext

Posted on 12/Jan/2010 by Vel

In the last few years, web design has improved significantly. There are so many tutorials out there to increase the skills capacity web designers and web developers. Some popular browsers such as Firefox, Safari already supported some CSS3 properties, and now the designer has many CSS3 properties. Today, I will share some tutorials, tips and tricks about CSS3.

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13 Simple CMS Options | designm.ag

Posted on 9/Jan/2010 by Vel

While there are a lot of powerful and feature-rich content management systems available to choose from, designers often have the need to work on small sites for clients that may only have use for a fraction of the features offered by the CMS. In theses cases the ideal solution is to use a simple CMS that may offer limited features, but will be easier for clients to use.

If you’re finding that some of your clients are confused by extra options, consider finding a CMS that has been created specifically for smaller projects with simplicity in mind. In this post we’ll look at 13 options that are available. All of these CMSs should make it easy for you to set up the site, and easy for the clients to manage content.

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15 useful jQuery plugins and tutorials | designer-daily

Posted on 9/Jan/2010 by Vel

The variety of plugins and tutorials available for jQuery never cease to amaze me. I’ve been looking for some new plugins for an ongoing project, so I extended my research a bit to share these cool jQuery plugins with you. If you need more, you can take a look a these jQuery scripts to improve your site’s interface, or at the jQuery scripts for your portfolio.

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Practical Uses of CSS3 | Viget

Posted on 26/Dec/2009 by Vel

“We are certainly at an interesting point in time with the web. There are new techniques being created every day, and as developers, we have the privilege of deciding how and when to use them. I’m the new guy at Viget (only been here a few weeks), and every company is different, so it is interesting adapting to Viget’s standards. Some companies utilize progressive enhancement more than others, and I love that we utilize it when we can.

One big item for me is how much we use CSS3. Yes I know, it is not fully supported across all browsers. If you still want everything to look exactly the same across all browsers, you should probably just close this article and not read about CSS for another 10 years. A user is not going to pull up your site in two different browsers to compare the experience, so they won’t even know what they are missing. Just because something is not fully supported, that does not mean that we can’t use it to an extent. In this article I’ll show you some practical uses for CSS3.”

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Advanced Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers: Reloaded | smashingmagazine

Posted on 19/Dec/2009 by Vel

“Two weeks ago we published the first part of this article, covering multiple column content techniques and associating pages with post content; we discussed how to use the “More”-tag, hide standalone categories from the category list and retain the page layout for post views within a category page. This article presents the second part of the article; it covers customizing basic content administration and adding features to the post and page editor in WordPress. You would like to see more similar articles in the future? Let us know in the comments to this post!”

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What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS | smashingmagazine

Posted on 19/Dec/2009 by Vel

“As we move forward with the Web and browsers become capable of rendering more advanced code, we gradually get closer to the goal of universal standards across all platforms and computers. Not only will we have to spend less time making sure our box model looks right in IE6, but we create an atmosphere ripe for innovation and free of hacks and heavy front-end scripting.

The Web is an extremely adaptive environment and is surrounded by a collaborative community with a wealth of knowledge to share. If we collectively want to be able to have rounded corners, we make it happen. If we want to have multiple background images, we make it happen. If we want border images, we make that happen, too. So desire is not the issue. If it was, we would all still be using tables to lay out our pages and using heavy over-the-top code. We all know that anything can be done on the Web.”

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