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From the Blog
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Make or Break your SEO: URLs & Title Tags
With a growing number of companies and organizations utilizing search engine optimization to increase their online visibility it is surprising to see a majority of them still using convoluted URLs and generic title tags on their websites. URLs and Title tags provide information that helps...
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Websites are Wild Beasts: A Wrangler's Guide
As a biology major gone web developer, I though I’d offer an organic perspective: websites are wild Beasts. Come with me on an adventure into the Web Wide World and I’ll share my knowledge on wrangling these Beasts. Understand Your Beast Websites are simple Beasts. They...
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HTML 5: Should we be excited yet?
Update 7/2/2009: I incorrectly credited Jeffrey Zeldman as the creator of HTML5 Doctor. Instead, the actual creators of the HTML5 Doctor website are Bruce Lawson, Rich Clark, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Remy Sharp, and Tom Leadbetter as described at http://html5doctor.com/about/ . This...
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Three Basics of Search Engine Optimization
Almost all of our clients come to us with questions about Search Engine Optimization and how to run a campaign for their site. Most people view SEO as a deep mystery that requires years of HTML experience and an education from Hogwarts. However, while there are many intricacies to...
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Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash
There is an update to this post! Plese visit the new post that has a downloadable, generic plugin. At the end of last year, we launched a website for Coastal & Marine Sciences in North Carolina with one of our Agency Partners, Liaison Design Group . As a part of the...
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HTML Forms: The Right Way(s)
I recently stumbled upon a Reddit discussion thread on the proper way to write an HTML form. First, there is no one right way to code an HTML form. Well, I should say there is no one right way to code an HTML form assuming you are using semantic and accessible markup . Here are several...
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jCaption: jQuery Image Captions with Customizable Markup, Style and Animation
jCaption is a jQuery plugin designed to make adding captions to a page dead simple. It takes an image element and uses one of its attributes to build the markup for a caption. It allows for both arbitrary styling and markup. See a demo. Download the plugin. Dealing with...
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CSS Sprites2 Refactored: Building an Unobtrusive jQuery Plugin
Note : This post is in reference to the recent A List Apart article in which Dave Shea expands upon the classic CSS Sprites technique by using jQuery. His technique allows for animations between the link states while still being fully degradable for visitors that do not run...
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Moving your script tags: The quickest way to improve site performance
At this point almost every web developer is familiar with YSlow . If you're not, YSlow is a Firefox extension that integrates with Firebug that analyzes the performance of webpages based on a set of rules Yahoo! has developed . By following this set of rules, you can make your website load...
