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12 Jan
10 excellent SEO plug-ins for every blog
Plugins, SEO, WordPress
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SEO can be a very daunting task. With the help of plug-ins, this daunting task becomes a piece of cake. As we all know search engine optimization is extremely important for any website or blog in order to be found on search engines like Google, Yahoo and others.
In order to ensure that we meet our SEO goals, we must make sure that we do it properly. Performing search engine optimization tasks improperly can put you even farther behind than where you started.
With this list of 10 SEO plug-ins, I’m going to show you how to easily exploit search engine optimization techniques and do it correctly. Many of these plug-ins can be used in conjunction with each other, further optimizing your websites SEO potential.
As always if you think we’ve missed something, please let us know in the comments. Read more
11 Jan
Win a Wibiya Pro plan for one year!
Contest, Contests, Social Media
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Social media and web app integration is becoming a vital part of any successful website. You need to interact with your visitors on a variety of platforms is you want to create loyal, return visitors and fans.
The Wibiya toolbar lets you integrate a variety of social plugins, free apps, games, video and image galleries, and more into your website to increase page views, increase visitor engagement, and better promote your content.
Wibiya is giving away two Pro Wibiya Plans, each for a full year! A value of $119.40 each! All you have to do to enter is comment on this post! Read more
10 Jan
Password strength verification with jQuery
Tutorials, Web Development, jQuery
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Many sites that require login credentials enforce a security setting often referred to as password complexity requirements. These requirements ensure that user passwords are sufficiently strong and cannot be easily broken.
What constitutes a strong password? Well, that depends on who you ask. However, traditional factors that contribute to a password’s strength include it’s length, complexity, and unpredictability. To ensure password strength, many sites require user passwords to be alphanumeric in addition to being a certain length.
In this tutorial, we’ll construct a form that gives the user live feedback as to whether their password has sufficiently met the complexity requirements we will establish. Read more
9 Jan
Responsive design in the corporate world
Mobile, Responsive Design, Web Design
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When you already have a full plate of client work, it can be difficult to get into new technologies. Responsive design is a big buzz-phrase right now, but it’s unnecessary to force it on a client unless their users will see a benefit from it.
At 352 Media Group, we recently saw an opportunity to make a fully responsive site for a client, Purple Communications. They make software for people with hearing loss who would otherwise be unable to make a phone call. Using their computer, phone, videophone, or other electronic device, they can communicate with others using a video relay service.
Purple Communications offers apps for multiple phone platforms, so a substantial part of their web traffic is from mobile devices. Looking at their traffic, it became abundantly clear that the best solution for the client was to make a fully responsive site. Our company has done mobile sites before, but this was the first time that one site would serve both the mobile and desktop users. If you’re interested in incorporating some responsive web design features into your company or client’s website, here are some tips to keep in mind:
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8 Jan
Our favorite tweets of the week
Jan 2-Jan 8, 2012
Best Of, Compilation, Twitter
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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.
Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.
To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Read more
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Comics of the week #111
Comics, Funny, Humor
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Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.
So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.
Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own… Read more
6 Jan
Launching soon: The Webdesigner Depot Newsletter
News, Newsletter
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For over three years, you have relied on Webdesigner Depot for quality articles, editorials, inspirational posts and an array of other cool stuff. Now, we’re adding a new layer to WDD by launching our own newsletter and you’re the first to know about it today!
Needless to say, we’re super thrilled and pumped about this!!… but you may wonder how’s this different to the WDD blog? The content! This is not your typical newsletter, with the same posts you’ll find on our site, or in our RSS feed.
Inside, you will find quality tips, exclusive downloads, news, tutorials and access to things you don’t get on the blog, which are exclusive to our subscribers and yes, it’s all 100% FREE, so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
The newsletter will be sent only once a month at first and in the future we may send out a few more per month, but don’t worry, we won’t spam you or overwhelm you with constant emails. Your email will be safe with us, it will never be sold or rented to any third party companies. If we do increase the frequency, we’ll also add an option to choose how often you want to hear from us.
Just sign up below for FREE and click on the confirmation link that will be sent to you: Read more