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11 WordPress Plugins To Manage Your Ads Banners

Mar 17th, 10 in Wordpress | View Comments |

How to monetize your blog? The simplest way is to signup for Adsense, right? But there are actually a lot of Ad Networks that offer different types of banners for different niches. For a design blog, the most popular one is BuySellAds. However, they are some bloggers which prefer direct ads selling, which can save the middleman’s commission.

Direct ads selling is good, but you need to effectively manage your banners. For example, record down when the banner expire, the order of banner, track banner impressions, click through rate and much more. There could be very time consuming especially when you have a lot of banners.

So, why not installing some ads management plugins to your blog. They come with basic features such as randomly rotate the banners, banner expired date, insert ad code without modifying your template file and etc.

Today, we are going to look into 11 Powerful WordPress Plugins To Manage your advertisements. You probably need only one of them, but you should go through each of the plugin before you make your decision.
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Transparency in Internet Explorer: 6 Simple Solutions

Mar 15th, 10 in Resources, Tutorial | View Comments |

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Transparency in Internet Explorer is always a big issue for all Web Designers. There are a lot of compatibility problems with Internet Explorer 6. We have to design our website base on Firefox/Opera/Chrome, and then try it with Internet Explorer.

One of the major concern about IE6 is the transparency problem. IE6 can’t render transparent PNG image properly. As the result, your transparent and glassy design will become messy in IE6.

Luckily, there are a few solutions which can help web designer overcome the IE6 transparency problem. Each of them uses different method. Today, we are going to briefly look into these 6 methods. Please read the documentation while you are considering which method to use.

1. jQuery.pngFix.js

This solution requires jQuery and ables to work with CSS Backgrounds. To use this method, simple add both jQuery and pngFix plugin at your header section and then activate pngFix on document.ready.

5 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress.org Blog For Search Engines

Mar 10th, 10 in SEO | View Comments |

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Any search engine optimization (SEO) expert or enthusiast will tell you WordPress.org (the self-hosted one) is the foundation for a blogger wants to get optimal traffic from Google. Its the only blog platform that offers complete control of your search engine optimization features.

“You don’t buy a BMW automobile and then let the manufacturer choose what your radio plays, or how fast you drive. Don’t let the same thing happen to your blog!”

WordPress.org is required for these 5 quick ways to blog search engine optimization.

Want a more complete list of SEO plugins for your self-hosted WordPress blog? Read our WordPress SEO plugins list.

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack provides overwrite control for your blog site, page, post, and category titles, descriptions, and keywords. Perfect because you don’t have to depend on the SEO expertise of the theme developer who sometimes leave these critical elements out of the code, or give you little access to them. Screenshot from my plugin:

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Principles to Become (and stay) Strong in the Search Engine Rankings

Mar 5th, 10 in SEO | View Comments |

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The search engine optimization industry has changed over the years. However, the basic principles remained the same. I’ll try to cover here some of the main things you should focus on in order to become and stay strong in the search engine results.

One thing before we start: Understand this is a relative game. You don’t have to reach some absolute goal to rank #1 for a particular keyword. All you need to do is to be ‘better’ than the guy who is on the #1 spot.

Top 15 SEO Extensions For Your Joomla CMS

Mar 3rd, 10 in SEO | View Comments |

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Joomla is a powerful CMS, used by over 20 of the world’s 10,000 most popular websites. With Joomla on your side, you’re more than capable of building the best site around, but what use is a great site if nobody’s going to see it? It’s common knowledge that Joomla lets itself down when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). Limited and slow, there’s precious little you can do, SEO-wise, in Joomla core.

To boost your unique visitor numbers, get seen on Google, beat the competition and, ultimately, make more money, you’re going to need to fortify Joomla with the right extensions. We explore 15 of the best SEO extensions for Joomla below. All but the last four in this list are completely free, so there’s absolutely no reason not to give them a try.

While free extensions provide a range of lightweight, quick-fixes to annoying SEO problems, commercial solutions tend to offer a comprehensive suite of SEO tools, packaged in a really slick way.

Tips: If you are using WordPress, please check out our previous article about WordPress plugins that increase your search engine rankings.

1. SEOSimple

For the best SEO results, it’s vital that your meta descriptions contain text relevant to each page’s contents. Filling in descriptions for every page can be a real chore, which is why many Joomla experts incorporate SEOSimple into every site they build. It automatically uses a chunk of text from the top of each page as its meta description. Downloading and installing this plugin takes no more than 2 minutes, but it could save you hours in the long-run.

Price: Free

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9 Useful WordPress Poll And Rating Plugins

Mar 1st, 10 in Wordpress | View Comments |

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Polls are very useful way to get in touch with your readers. Polls can be used to get your readers’ opinion and even new article idea.

There are various websites that let you setup your own polls. Once you insert the given code, you will be able to start using the polls immediately. PollDaddy is one of the great free online polls and serveys.

However, if you are a person who not really familiar with HTML, PHP, CSS or JavaScript, inserting these codes will probably takes the whole day. Furthermore, you probably don’t have all the features for a free account,or you probably just want a really simple rating feature.

If you are a WordPress user, then you are lucky. There are a lot of useful WordPress poll and rating plugins where you can download and use freely. Here, we share 9 useful WordPress poll and rating plugins with our readers.

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

Feb 24th, 10 in Photoshop, Resources | View Comments |

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Cartoon character designs is really interesting. Today, we have a lot of powerful graphic design software such as Photopsop, Illustrator and Corel Draw to help graphic designers create cartoon characters.

With the advance technologies, designers now can sketch the cartoon characters on paper first, and then use software to convert and edit them on PC. If you are using Photoshop or Illustrator, then they are powerful enough to create cartoon character. But if you don’t want to pay for them, there are still a lot of Free Photoshop alternatives where you can use.

Today, we are going to look into 50 cartoon character design tutorials where you can learn from basic to the advance skills to create and edit cartoon characters. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Create your own monster

Yet another monster character tutorial. You can download the source files to get started immediately.
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CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions

Feb 22nd, 10 in CSS, Resources | View Comments |

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There are a lot of ways to visualize your data. Using Pure CSS Graph and Chart is one of the best and easy way, unless you want to create a very good-looking graphs.

If you really want to create graphs and charts with fancy UI or features, then you should consider either Javascript Chart or using Flash.

In this article, we cover 11 tutorials and solutions for you to create graphs and charts using CSS. There are a lot of tutorials and sample about CSS graphs, but we hand-picked 11 best solutions. Let’s start to look into them one by one.

1. CSS only bar charts

This pure CSS solution able to plot car charts without rely on heavy Javascript. With this solution, you can also implement mouse hover effect to the bar chart. The author had packed everything in a PHP file, which you can download and using it as a web service.
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60+ Tiger Art Works And Photography Celebrating Year Of Tiger

Feb 13th, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |

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Tomorrow is the big day for Chinese around the world. Besides celebrating Valentine, Chinese also celebrating their Chinese New Year at the same day. What a coincidence, right?

Chinese zodiac uses 12 different animals and relates each year to an animal. According to Chinese zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the Year of a Metal Tiger. Tiger is a symbol of power and authority, but its destructive personality brings poor people relationship.

There are a lot of different explanations regarding the luck and wealth for year 2010. If you would like to know more about Chinese Zodiac, do a search on Google and i am sure you can found a lot of interesting articles. Meanwhile, if you are interested to know which “animal” you are belonged to, feel free to do a quick test on the Chinese Astrology Birth Chart.

In order to celebrate this great holiday, we are presenting 60+ Tiger Art Works to our readers. Here, we collected Photography for tigers, white tigers, baby tigers, digital arts, traditional arts, as well as Chinese arts and paintings which related to tiger.

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11 WordPress Plugins To Manage Your Ads Banners