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Creating a Facebook Page Tab

Creating a Custom Tab for your business is fairly easy, the difficult part is setting it up in Facebook, getting through their documentation and screen settings, and ensuring you have the minimum requirements. The Custom Tab appears on the Facebook p ...

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Custom Header Image in WordPress 3.4

One of the new features in Wordpress 3.4 is that you can add images to the header of your site through the Admin area. This is a feature that should have been added many versions ago and has always required a plugin or use of Custom Fields. Read more ...

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Google Fonts Gives Web Designers Variety

For years, designers have complained of only being allowed to use Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, or Courier as marketers and web developers forced the usage of web-friendly fonts for usability and search engine optimization. The idea of these four ...

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Customizing A Shared Page On Facebook: Use Open Graph

Whenever you share a link on Facebook or you paste a link into your status update, you'll notice that it displays a title and sometimes a description and photo. To change what information is displayed when a page on your website is displayed involves ...

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Dealing with UTF-8 Character Encoding In PHP and MySQL

The other week, a colleague of mine sent an interesting article about UTF8 encoding through the web stack. The post talks about how you have to force each part of your web application and software into UTF8 as they fight to default to their own defau ...

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Customizing the Image for Facebook Shared Links

This post is outdated. Click here to view how to customize your Facebook content using Open Graph. Sharing tools and Like buttons have become common place on websites and blogs. When using these tools, Facebook and other services do their best to ...

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WordPress Admin Bar is Blank

When I upgraded to Wordpress 3.1, I realized that there was a blank box along the top of my blog. I didn't realize what this was until installing a new version of Wordpress, I saw the Admin Bar and realized that the blank box was a blank Admin Bar. A ...

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Optimizing Your Website for Speed: SEO for CSS and Javascript Files

Back in April 2010, Google posted an article to their blog that discussed how speed matters in web search rankings. Programmers have generally been obsessed with load times and efficient code, however the online marketing world has pushed websites to ...

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Simple Viewer, FlickrViewer, and Flickr

Recently, I was asked to work on a project where the client wanted to have their photos on Flickr load on their website. I was given the following requirements for finding a solution: The client wanted to show multiple photos divided into a few dif ...

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Asian Characters in HTML Drop Down Menus

Including asian characters in drop down menus on websites can be a bit trickier than they seem and requires a step further than just including the Meta tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> If you are using ...

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