June 30, 2008

E-Mail Marketing Techniques

Whether you are selling a product or a service on your website or blog, e-mail marketing is a good method for reaching out to hundreds and even thousands of prospective customers. But, without a proper approach to this type of marketing, you may be wasting your time. A few little known secrets to be a successful e-mail marketer are revealed he...

June 25, 2008

CSS Hacks

Dealing with browser inconsistencies often makes up a majority of the work for a web designer. Sometimes there is no reasonable way to accomplish a desired layout in all major web browsers without the use of some special exception rules for certain layout engines. Hacks necessarily lead to potential complications and should be avoided whenever possible, but when the circumstances require hacks to be used, it's best to know what your options are and weigh the consequences appropriately. The purpose of this article is to describe some of the CSS hacks, also called CSS filters, with the least significant potential consequences.Conditional comments Due to its relatively poor level of standards support, Internet Explorer tends to be the subject...

June 20, 2008

Color Palette Creation is a Breeze With ColorPic

Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.Version 4 is now available, with the following features: Easily pick any color from the screen Totally 100% Free! No popup adverts or spyware, it really is free Colors shown in hex and decimal Adjust Hue, Saturation, Value, Red, Green and Blue values Cyan,...

June 12, 2008

Expandable Post Summaries for Professional Blog Design

With little bit of modifications to your Blogger Beta template you can easily implement expandable post summaries in your blog main page. Expandable posts gives very professional and elegant look to your blog. You can hide most of the detailed content from main page and display them when the page of the post is opened. If you observer my blog, voting widgets are displayed on my post links and not in my main page. Also, most of the images in my posts are shown only in the actual post links only. Moving bandwidth intensive content to posts’ pages loads your main page very fast. Let us see the...

June 10, 2008

Displaying RSS Feeds Easily Using Google Ajax Feed API

Displaying RSS feeds from other sites (ie: CNN or Digg) on your own is a nice way to show constantly updated content automatically. However, for the novice web developer, setting this up can be daunting, requiring both knowledge from you and your server's ability to host remote files. Google's Ajax Feed API changes all that, by basically enabling any webmaster to display RSS feeds on their sites using some JavaScript code. It hosts the desired RSS feeds on their servers for you, caches them, and returns the data in either JSON or XML format for you to utilize. All that's left is for you to use some JavaScript to parse this data and output it on your page.In this tutorial, we show you how to harness Google Ajax Feed API to fetch a RSS feed and...

June 7, 2008

Change Title Tags For Your Blog

Until recently, the title tags generated for each page of your Blogger blog would display the blog title first, then the name of your post. This wasn't so good for SEO (search engine optimization) as this made keywords from your post titles appear after your blog title. Luckily, Blogger have come up with a simple fix for this problem for those who use Layouts templates: the <data:blog.pageName/> tag! This new tag is already installed for new blogs (or if you change your existing template to one of Blogger's default ones). However, if you have customized your template or uploaded a third party template, you will need to change the original <data:blog.pageTitle/> to the new <data:blog.pageName/> tag for this change to take...

June 2, 2008

How to Customize Your Favicon in Blogger

A Favicon is a custom icon for your blog displayed next to the URL’s of your sites and next to the page title in open tabs. By default in blogger blogs, all the icons are set to Blogger’s favicon: By performing the following steps you can replace the Favicon with your own. Select an icon of your own, you can get quite a bit of professional free favicons at Favicons R Us or you can create your own Favicon at favicon.cc. Next you’ll need to host the icon on a website. If your blog is on a custom domain you can upload your icon there or you can upload it on a free service, preferably on Google’s...

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