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Mephisto: Elegant and Powerful Weblog-Engine
Depending on bloggers' needs and skills, the choice of a weblog-engine is usually the choice between flexibility, simplicity and functionality. In fact, most engines don't manage to find the right mix... More... 38 Comments
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10 Designer’s Checkpoints To Be Aware Of
Automatic tests, checks and analysis services can be extremely valuable if you're looking for bugs or try to avoid them. To make sure everything is just the way you think it should be, you need... More... 75 Comments
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Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every... More... 469 Comments
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Developer’s Alarm: 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity
There is nothing more valuable than the time we need to get things done. Over a long period of time time-saving techniques and solutions can turn out to be real life-savers. The more you use them, the... More... 193 Comments
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Time-Savers: Code Beautifier And Formatter
Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically structured, well organized and nicely formatted, the code can speed up the bug hunting and help to keep... More... 91 Comments
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Wordpress Plugins & Tutorials: Your Pick
Depending on your needs and professional skills, the choice of an optimal weblog engine can be quite time-consuming. There are many options, and selecting the optimal engine, you should know exactly... More... 176 Comments
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Web Domains: Tools To Use, Articles To Read
A thought-out domain name can save you a lot of time and bring you a lot of traffic. Search engines love topic-related domain names and they seem to be an important aspect which is being used to... More... 60 Comments
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80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we've used to give up the idea of. Modern... More... 360 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... 448 Comments
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30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery.... More... 253 Comments
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Online Converters
Online converters always come in handy. Once you need to perform some operation with your files, they can save your time achieving the same results online, without installing some specific software. In... More... 98 Comments
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Bookmarklets, Favelets and Snippets
If you’ve used them once you’ll never be able to work without them. Bookmarklets (or Favelets) are tiny Javascript-Snippets, which are stored within a bookmark and add particular... More... 26 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... 37 Comments
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Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking
You’d like to improve the link popularity of your site. Or maybe to keep track on the latest web buzz. It would be nice to inform your readers about it the minute the news occured. Or maybe you... More... 31 Comments
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