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Restructuring Your SEO Link Building Budget

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:32 +0000

Let’s assume you are entering your second or third year of SEO. You have a well-optimized site, a company blog that posts two new posts a week, a decent social media presence and a solid link portfolio. You might think that you can ride the success of your previous SEO efforts for a few [...]

How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:31 +0000

Custom post types add a level of flexibility to WordPress that makes this open-source Web development platform more useful on many levels. Whenever I have been faced with a Web-based task, especially one that involves organizing information, the first thing I do is examine WordPress to determine if it [...]

CameraBag 2 Updated for Photo Improvement and Effect Creation

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:29 +0000

The latest version provides enhanced performance and new photo tools, as well as additional filters and vintage film simulations….

German Federal Office of Information Security recommends Chrome

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:27 +0000

Today the BSI, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, released a best practice guide for Windows users as part of their overall guidelines and recommendations for Cyber Security. Security has always been a core focus of Chrome, so we’re particularly honored to see several of its security benefits recognized in the report:The browser is the [...]

Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:27 +0000

Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without having [...]

CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:27 +0000

CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance [...]

Vsevolod Vlasov is a WebKit Reviewer!

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:26 +0000

Vsevolod Vlasov has been a major contributor to the recent improvements to the Web Inspector. Please join me in congratulating Vsevolod on his new role as a WebKit reviewer!

Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:25 +0000

With a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing [...]

YUI: Open Hours Thurs Feb 2nd

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:24 +0000

3.5.0pr2 is available We deployed the second 3.5.0 preview release right on time, celebrated for a couple minutes, then went back to work on PR3, which will be the gating preview before 3.5.0 GA in mid-March. But we’ll stop to take a breath and highlight some of the changes in PR2. You’ve read the short list [...]

jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released

news — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:23 +0000

Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of [...]