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  Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right?

  With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you've published online. More than that, you are responsible for... More... 122 Comments

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  Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

  Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and... More... 465 Comments

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  Golden Rules of Linkbaiting

  Link baiting is not evil. Although some bloggers tend to go beyond any ethical considerations in their attempts to enforce as many reciprocal links as possible, the term itself stands for a completely... More... 103 Comments

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  PDF: 70 Coding Ideas + 80 Design Tips

  It doesn't matter, whether you've been working with CSS for years or have started to learn it recently. In both cases expert ideas for CSS coding and creative approaches for professional design are... More... 52 Comments

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  Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them

  Web 2.0 has its positive and its negative sides. Apart from tremendous technological improvements, provided by Ajax, semantically organized content and the growing popularity of RSS-Feeds, the term "Web... More... 65 Comments

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  35 Designers x 5 Questions

  35 designers. 5 questions. 5 precise answers. Result: 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world. In March we've selected over 35 prominent... More... 295 Comments

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  Designing With Grid-Based Approach

  The main idea behind grid-based designs is a solid visual and structural balance of web-sites you can create with them. Sophisticated layout structures offer more flexibility and enhance the visual... More... 165 Comments

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  Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools

  Google AdSense is probably one of the most popular revenue generators in the Web. We hear the stories about bloggers-genies, who manage to turn their blogs into cash machines overnight. However, it's... More... 171 Comments

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  White Space and Simplicity: An Overview

  Last year we've seen a lot of simple, even minimalistic designs, which impress not with the amount of presented information but with the way the information is actually presented. Complex layouts are... More... 31 Comments

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  Preventing Spam: Bulletproof Solutions

  Spam is probably one of the most difficult problems we have to deal with. E-Mail-filters, such as those used in GMail, provide accurate results, but not every company is willing to use extern services... More... 38 Comments

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