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| 2d | Websites | Build Awesome Apps with CSS3 Animations
Today’s HTML5 applications can provide awesome experiences thanks partly to CSS3 specifications like Animations. David Rousset walks you (and a Star Wars AT-AT) through the motions. |
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| 2d | Websites | Increasing Responses Using Split Testing Basics
Miles Burke finds Google is a handy collaborator in setting up split testing to gauge landing page effectiveness. And the results speak for themselves. |
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| 3d | Websites | Browser Trends February 2012: Chrome 16 Obliterates IE8
Craig looks at the browser market during January 2012. It's the same story: Chrome continues to blast away at the competition. |
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| 4d | Websites | What’s New in Firefox 10
It's too late to upgrade to Firefox 9 - version 10 has been released. While we're becoming used to lightweight sets of new features, Craig finds a surprising number of additions in the new browser. |
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| 4d | Websites | Using the HTML5 Geolocation API
Telling your site visitors where they are can be a very smart thing to do. Microsoft Evangelist Danwei Tran Luciani explains why ... and how. |
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| 4d | Websites | Using the HTML5 Geolocation API
Telling your site visitors where they are can be a very smart thing to do. Microsoft Evangelist Danwei Tran Luciani explains why ... and how. |
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| 4d | Websites | How to Avoid Retainer-client Burnout
Do you have clients on retainer? Take Georgina's tips for avoiding retainer-client burnout, and make those relationships richer, longer lasting, and more enjoyable. |
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| 5d | Websites | Serving Static Files with Node.js
In this article we’re going to look at setting up a static file server using Node. There’s plenty of modules available to help us do this, but we’re going to focus on three of them: node-static, paperboy, and http-server. All of these modules are available via npm (Node Package Manager). npm has been packaged with [...] |
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| 5d | Websites | What’s on at PHPMaster?
We’ve been busy over at PHPMaster, working to bring you the best articles and tutorials so you can get to know one of the most widely used languages on the Web Under the Hood of Yii’s Component Architecture, Part 1 This is Part 1 of a 3-part series that shows you some of the inner-workings [...] |
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| 5d | Websites | “Un-Selling” Another’s Solution? Shame on You!
Are you willing to walk away rather than propose a solution that won’t truly meet the prospect’s needs? Or will you “un-sell” another's potential solution? |
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| 6d | Websites | Transactional vs. Consultative Selling: Knowing the Difference Makes All the Difference
Knowing the difference between Transactional and Consultative Selling can mean the difference between failure and success. |
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| 9d | Websites | SitePoint Podcast #147: The CSS Ninja with Ryan Seddon
In this week's podcast, host Louis Simoneau interviews Ryan Seddon about his course on Modernizr, his work on fontdragr.com, and his other CSS projects too. |
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| 9d | Websites | SitePoint Podcast #147: The CSS Ninja with Ryan Seddon
In this week's podcast, host Louis Simoneau interviews Ryan Seddon about his course on Modernizr, his work on fontdragr.com, and his other CSS projects too. |
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| 10d | Websites | Managing Multiple Sites with WordPress Network
Managing and updating software for multiple WordPress sites can be a real hassle. Daniel Shamburger finds WordPress Network makes it much easier. |
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| 10d | Websites | What Expectations Are You Setting With Clients?
Client expectations cut both ways, and Brandon argues if anyone's going to set them correctly from the start it'll have to be you. |
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| 10d | Websites | Tips for Designing an Amazing Proposal
Brandon Eley's company recently reviewed how they frame their proposals and ended up making quite a lot of changes. Have you reviewed yours lately? |
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| 11d | Websites | 5 Steps To Guarantee Client Payment
Late payment affects your cashflow and you'll lose more time and money chasing clients. Craig reveals 5 tips to avoid those hassles again. |
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| 11d | Websites | Talk Yourself Up … Without Sounding Like an Egomaniac
Scared you'll sound like a narcissistic self-promoter if you talk about yourself with prospects? Georgina has a few suggestions to help shy types promote their work in client conversations. |
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| 11d | Websites | 5 Unbreakable Rules of Landing Page Design
Zach Ball has identified five key areas to which you must pay attention if you want to develop a most effective landing page for your website. |
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| 12d | Websites | What can YOU do with 1 Kilobyte of CSS?
Craig takes a look at the CSS1K project which hopes to illustrate how clever developers can be with 1 kilobyte of CSS code. |
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| 13d | Websites | SEO Alert! Google Downgrades Pages With Too Many Ads
Google has announced an algorithm change which downgrades any site with too many adverts above the fold. Craig discusses the policy and whether Google is starting to dictate how you design web pages. |
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| 13d | Websites | 3 More Reasons You’re Going to Lose that Sale
Sometimes, the reason you lose a sale is complicated. John Tabita has some simple solutions to help you win. |
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| 14d | Websites | CloudSpring: End To End Encryption With Quantum Security
Media touts, platform competitors and other naysayers like to wax lyrical about the “risk” to your data from storing or even processing it in the cloud – most of which is complete nonsense. |
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| 14d | Websites | CloudSpring: What Do You Want To Read About The Cloud?
Trawling the blogosphere, listening to colleagues and clients and recently seeing some of the comments on CloudSpring.com, it's apparent there is a great deal of hype surrounding cloud technologies that needs to be clarified. |
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| 15d | Websites | PHPMaster: Rapid Application Development with CakePHP
CakePHP is a framework that provides a solid base for PHP development. It allows users at any skill level to rapidly develop robust web applications. The framework follows the principles of the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller) which separates your code in three parts: Model – code that deals with data (i.e. |
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| 16d | Websites | RubySource: Ruby Golf: The Results!
Back in November, I wrote a piece about Ruby Golf . At the end of the article I set a 5 hole challenge for readers, using the minumum number of bytes. There was a terrific response ... |
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| 16d | Websites | SitePoint Podcast #146: Patrick Accidentally Installs Chrome
In the discussion mix this week for Louis and the panel is Bing's challenge to Google and JQ.Mobi, a "mobile-optimized HTML5 rewrite of the jQuery framework". And then there's Patrick. |
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| 17d | Websites | PHPMaster: Planning Poker
Planning Poker is an estimation technique which helps developers provide good estimates for project tasks. It comes from the world of Agile software development, but can be used in isolation or with other methodologies as well. When you use Planning Poker to estimate your project, it is very important to give each developer a voice; allow them to make their own estimates without being influenced by the opinions or agendas of anyone else. When this is the case, Planning Poker enables you to do two very valuable things: You can look at the various estimates for the same task and gain a clear sense of how long this task will take |
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| 17d | Websites | PHPMaster: Planning Poker
Planning Poker is an estimation technique which helps developers provide good estimates for project tasks. It comes from the world of Agile software development, but can be used in isolation or with other methodologies as well. When you use Planning Poker to estimate your project, it is very important to give each developer a voice; allow them to make their own estimates without being influenced by the opinions or agendas of anyone else. When this is the case, Planning Poker enables you to do two very valuable things: You can look at the various estimates for the same task and gain a clear sense of how long this task will take |
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| 17d | Websites | BuildMobile: Listen to Handcrafted Mixtapes with 8tracks
When I was a teenager, I made mixtapes on cassettes using songs from the radio all the time. The best mixtapes had a consistent theme, cool artwork, and no radio advertisements or awkward pauses between songs. Unfortunately, cassettes have fallen out of popularity, but the concept of compiling your own mixtape is a truly modern creation that exists regardless of the medium. 8tracks is an Internet radio site which puts an interesting spin on this concept |
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| 17d | Websites | BuildMobile: Listen to Handcrafted Mixtapes with 8tracks
When I was a teenager, I made mixtapes on cassettes using songs from the radio all the time. The best mixtapes had a consistent theme, cool artwork, and no radio advertisements or awkward pauses between songs. Unfortunately, cassettes have fallen out of popularity, but the concept of compiling your own mixtape is a truly modern creation that exists regardless of the medium. 8tracks is an Internet radio site which puts an interesting spin on this concept |
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| 17d | Websites | RubySource: Properties and Methods in Ruby from a .NET POV
C# developers are used to working with fields , properties , and methods . But there’s certain confusion when it comes to understanding how those work in Ruby. So let’s have a quick C# refresher. Fields, Properties, and Methods in C# Fields are variables scoped either to an object (instance fields) or to a class (static fields). |
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| 17d | Websites | RubySource: Properties and Methods in Ruby from a .NET POV
C# developers are used to working with fields , properties , and methods . But there’s certain confusion when it comes to understanding how those work in Ruby. So let’s have a quick C# refresher. Fields, Properties, and Methods in C# Fields are variables scoped either to an object (instance fields) or to a class (static fields). |
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| 17d | Websites | DesignFestival: Readers: Get Your Work Featured on DesignFestival
At SitePoint we know it’s the readers who keep our sites going — and on DesignFestival, we want to offer you the opportunity to have your work featured on the blog. We’ll be publishing regular features that include some insight from our featured reader-designers, and a showcase of their design work. If you’d like to be featured, shoot us an email and ensure the words “featured reader” are in the subject line. Give us as much as you can to work with: include links to your latest work, and your profiles on sites like Dribbble and Forrst, and tell us a bit about yourself and your design experience |
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| 17d | Websites | DesignFestival: Readers: Get Your Work Featured on DesignFestival
At SitePoint we know it’s the readers who keep our sites going — and on DesignFestival, we want to offer you the opportunity to have your work featured on the blog. We’ll be publishing regular features that include some insight from our featured reader-designers, and a showcase of their design work. If you’d like to be featured, shoot us an email and ensure the words “featured reader” are in the subject line. Give us as much as you can to work with: include links to your latest work, and your profiles on sites like Dribbble and Forrst, and tell us a bit about yourself and your design experience |
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| 17d | Websites | DesignFestival: How Multivariate Testing Can Help You Convert More Visitors
Multivariate testing is a data-driven approach to online marketing design and execution. Where we once had to rely on speculation in terms of what works, multivariate testing allows you to rely on data generated by site visitors in improving your campaigns. You can drive visitors to convert by simply testing and tweaking layout, copy, imagery, and calls-to-action within your campaigns. Why Bother with Multivariate Testing |
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| 17d | Websites | DesignFestival: How Multivariate Testing Can Help You Convert More Visitors
Multivariate testing is a data-driven approach to online marketing design and execution. Where we once had to rely on speculation in terms of what works, multivariate testing allows you to rely on data generated by site visitors in improving your campaigns. You can drive visitors to convert by simply testing and tweaking layout, copy, imagery, and calls-to-action within your campaigns. Why Bother with Multivariate Testing |
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| 17d | Websites | DesignFestival: What Will Android’s New Design Guidelines Mean for the Platform?
Android has long been criticized for its lack of a focused user interface design language. Apps running on the platform often don’t feel like they’re apps for the same platform at all, lacking a sense of coherence and uniformity. While Apple’s clearly stated design language documentation and arduous review process have given rise to an app ecosystem that provides a seamless, integrated, uninterrupted user experience through consistent UI elements, Android has fallen behind. |
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| 17d | Websites | DesignFestival: What Will Android’s New Design Guidelines Mean for the Platform?
Android has long been criticized for its lack of a focused user interface design language. Apps running on the platform often don’t feel like they’re apps for the same platform at all, lacking a sense of coherence and uniformity. While Apple’s clearly stated design language documentation and arduous review process have given rise to an app ecosystem that provides a seamless, integrated, uninterrupted user experience through consistent UI elements, Android has fallen behind. |
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| 17d | Websites | Reliability in the Cloud: Asking the Right Questions
In 2011 the general public was introduced to the Cloud. Unfortunately, in many cases this introduction came as a result of the Cloud’s failures. Amazon’s April outage at their Northern Virginia datacenter was first among several Cloud outages to gather major news coverage. Popular Websites and Web applications like FourSquare, Reddit, and HootSuite simultaneously disappeared from the web as Amazon and its customers struggled to recover. |
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| 17d | Websites | Reliability in the Cloud: Asking the Right Questions
In 2011 the general public was introduced to the Cloud. Unfortunately, in many cases this introduction came as a result of the Cloud’s failures. Amazon’s April outage at their Northern Virginia datacenter was first among several Cloud outages to gather major news coverage. Popular Websites and Web applications like FourSquare, Reddit, and HootSuite simultaneously disappeared from the web as Amazon and its customers struggled to recover. |
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| 17d | Websites | PHPMaster: MongoDB Revisited
In my previous article Introduction to MongoDB I discussed installing Mongo, its PHP extension, and how to perform simple insert and find operations. Of course there are many, many more features than what I mentioned so I wanted to write another article to show you some of them. In this article you’ll learn about cursors, additional query filters, and running queries on arrays and embedded documents. |
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| 17d | Websites | PHPMaster: MongoDB Revisited
In my previous article Introduction to MongoDB I discussed installing Mongo, its PHP extension, and how to perform simple insert and find operations. Of course there are many, many more features than what I mentioned so I wanted to write another article to show you some of them. In this article you’ll learn about cursors, additional query filters, and running queries on arrays and embedded documents. |
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| 17d | Websites | BuildMobile: Pure News Widget
I love finding new ways to use my phone online, so that I am less reliant on my laptop. With that in mind, one of the best replacements I found for my laptop’s RSS subscriptions was in the form of Pure News Widget. Pure News Widget turns any Android device into a news feed reading powerhouse. Pure News Widget Pure News Widget – all your feeds in customizable widgets Pure News Widget shows you any or all of your Google Reader feeds via a home screen widget |
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| 17d | Websites | RubySource: Rails or Sinatra: The Best of Both Worlds?
The Ruby world has been blessed with more than its fair share of frameworks for developing web applications over the years. Recently, though, two of them have emerged as the clear leaders in the field. Most readers of this site will have heard of Ruby on Rails . |
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| 17d | Websites | BuildMobile: Pure News Widget
I love finding new ways to use my phone online, so that I am less reliant on my laptop. With that in mind, one of the best replacements I found for my laptop’s RSS subscriptions was in the form of Pure News Widget. Pure News Widget turns any Android device into a news feed reading powerhouse. Pure News Widget Pure News Widget – all your feeds in customizable widgets Pure News Widget shows you any or all of your Google Reader feeds via a home screen widget |
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| 17d | Websites | RubySource: Rails or Sinatra: The Best of Both Worlds?
The Ruby world has been blessed with more than its fair share of frameworks for developing web applications over the years. Recently, though, two of them have emerged as the clear leaders in the field. Most readers of this site will have heard of Ruby on Rails . |
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| 17d | Websites | What’s Happening at SitePoint in 2012?
We’re only three weeks into 2012 and what an enormous year it’s already been on the Web. SOPA has been proposed by the United States Congress, with big internet names such as Wikipedia and Reddit observing a 12 hour blackout in protest. Apple, now well known for revolutionizing industries far and wide are expected to launch [...] |
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| 17d | Websites | What’s Happening at SitePoint in 2012?
We’re only three weeks into 2012 and what an enormous year it’s already been on the Web. SOPA has been proposed by the United States Congress, with big internet names such as Wikipedia and Reddit observing a 12 hour blackout in protest. Apple, now well known for revolutionizing industries far and wide are expected to launch [...] |
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| 17d | Websites | Interview that Departing Client
Just as quizzing a departing employee will tell you a lot about your business, so will finding out just why a client leaves you. Miles Burke recommends coffee. |
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