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URLs are Already Dead

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

URLs are already dead Posted at May 6, 2014 07:00 am by Nicholas C. Zakas Tags:

Browsers, Internet, URLs Last week, there was a fair bit of furor when Jake Archibald wrote an article1 describing an experimental feature in Chrome that hides all but the domain name of the URL you’re on. The idea is very similar to what already happens in the iOS 7 version of Safari: once navigation is underway, the URL is hidden and only the domain name is visible in the location bar. If you want to get to the full URL, then you either click or set focus back to the location bar (in Chrome, you click the domain name). Iâ€™ll admit, the first time I encountered this behavior in iOS 7, I was…

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URLs are already dead

The Essential Landing Page Checklist: 16 Things You Need to Double Check

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Whether you’re setting up a landing page for the first time or the billionth time, it’s easy to forget something. Though it’s just one page on your website, there are lots of moving parts you need to juggle. Some of those moving parts are more important than others — if they get dropped in the chaos, you will lose out on valuable conversions. To make sure the ball doesn’t get dropped on their landing pages, people have lots of ways of coping. One of the best ways to make sure you’ve crossed all your t’s and dotted all your i’s on a landing page is to have a checklist handy of all the things your can’t forget to do. That way, anytime you want to publish a landing…

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53 Freelancing Mistakes That Are Costing You Clients, Cash, and Credibility

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I don’t know about you, but when I started freelancing as a writer, I made a ton of mistakes. And by “a ton,” I mean everything I did was pretty much a disaster. Thankfully, you can fix mistakes. And contrary to popular belief, making mistakes is a good thing – provided you learn from them. But if you’re thinking, “Great! As long as I learn from my mistakes, it’s all good,” I have to tell you something – and you won’t like it. You may not even know you’re making a mistake. And that part can hurt your freelance business. You were too busy to notice (now you’re not) There you are, happily working your behind off…

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53 Freelancing Mistakes That Are Costing You Clients, Cash, and Credibility

Getting Started With WordPress Customization

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

What are you doing to make your WordPress site stand out? As of July 2013, WordPress accounted for 18.9 percent of sites on the internet, or more than 70 million sites. If you haven’t customized and enhanced your WordPress site, the time is now. Simple tweaks to add advanced coding will help create a unique experience for the user. The time and money you spend to increase traffic will be wasted if you don’t have an optimized theme that is unique and memorable. Here are some steps to improve your web design skills. WordPress Customization Learning to Code If you’re afraid of making changes to code, get over it. Your website won’t collapse (though you should save a version of your coding before you begin making changes). There are too …

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Using The Best WordPress Gallery Plugins To Create Beautiful Photo Galleries

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

May07 Posted on May 7 by Kevin Muldoon in Resources

WordPress introduced a gallery option into their core way back in 2008 with version 2.5. More features have been added to the WordPress gallery over the years, however the functionality is still limited in many respects. That is why many WordPress website owners use a plugin to power their gallery instead. There are many great premium gallery plugins available, however in this article, I would like to show you who you can use add a gallery to your website using three different WordPress plugins. The plugins in question are NextGEN Gallery, Gallery, and Photo Gallery. All of these plugins can be downloaded free from the official WordPress plugin repository, though a premium version of each plugin is available should …

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Using The Best WordPress Gallery Plugins To Create Beautiful Photo Galleries