Archive for the ‘Articles & Books’ Category

How to: 9 Tips to Engage Your Website Visitors

The biggest challenge for web marketers, brand managers and organizations targeting at more sales and brand loyalty via Web is engaging their website visitors. By engaging, we mean getting website visitors to spend time on the website and get involved in it. The ultimate purpose is, of course, conversion. What most marketers and brand promoters [...]

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Learn jQuery and JavaScript: Free On-Demand Training

appendTo was founded based on the growing need for quality jQuery training and support and this site was created specifically to fulfill that training need. appendTo helps developers to learn jQuery and JavaScript and level up their jQuery and JavaScript skills with on demand, pragmatic training solution. Learn at your own pace with on-demand content, you [...]

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How to Design Accessible Websites and Web Applications

Done with your latest and the greatest web design? Do you know that a large number of people in your audience would not be able to view your design as you intended. Imagine how a person with vision deficiency (like color blindness) would experience your website. According to an estimate, among adult computer users of [...]

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QR Codes: Creative Marketing Tool for Solo Designers & Developers

How do you advertise yourself as solo designer, small business or a freelance developer? If you are relying on traditional methods like word of mouth, social networking, emails etc., simple mathematics will tell you that you are converting only a fraction of your audience into your customers. (Just compare your facebook fans or Twitter followers [...]

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5 Web Design Trends to Watch & Follow in 2011

Recently, we have seen the entire landscape of web design transforming from traditional design and layouts to creative experiments in all directions. Most recent tends included rich imagery, table less layouts, interactive interfaces and extensive use of jQuery, CSS 3 and HTML 5 to minimize Photoshop and Flash. For the rest of 2011, we can expect a [...]

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Awesome JavaScript Documentation: JavaScript Garden

JavaScript Garden is an awesome and growing collection of JavaScript documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language. Former knowledge of [...]

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Most Effective Link Building Strategies For Blogs

For any site, Search Engine ranking is an important aspect to get traffic. As a blogger, I can understand the worth of getting listed in first 10 results against a Google search. There exists many strategies to improve website Search Engine Ranking (Create and join groups, join social sites like Facebook and Twitter, join forums, [...]

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Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns: A Free Ebook

AddyOsmani has recently released a Free Ebook for JavaScript developers, titled Essential JavaScript & jQuery Design Patterns For Beginners. Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software development and are a very useful tool to have at your disposal. This Free Ebook is very helpful for those JavaScript developers who may not have [...]

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How To Create jQuery CSS3 Content Slider With Thumbnails

You may have seen the flash content slider over at MLB, Louis Lazaris shared a very nice tutorial on recreating this content slider using jQuery and CSS3. This CSS3 content slider supports: Auto-hide thumbnails Navigation controls to view specific slide along-with next / previous button controls Website: http://www.impressivewebs.com/mlb-switcher/ Demo: http://www.impressivewebs.com/demo-files/mlb-switcher/ License: Free

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130 Free Icons for iPhone & Web Applications

Beautiful Free Icons for iPhone & Web Applications. Very well designed and highly optimized to use in iPhone Applications, these Free Icons are also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more.

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