This tutorial will teach you how to create an abstract background of twisted swirly lines using Adobe PhotoShop, something that looks like this: Let us start with a new file of your preferred aspect ratio (try to have a square, but a rectangle is fine just do not make it stretch too much because
As you probably well know by now, Google struck another blow the other day in the social wars with the launch of Search Plus Your World, their enhanced algorithm for personalization in your SERPs.
Ever wondered whether your targeted audience is really finding your website useful? Is the high bounce rates from any of your pages a matter of concern for you? Well, you’re in luck… Google is giving out some simple and handy tips on its latest Webmaster Central Blog that will help you understand and analyze the
NoSQL solutions are now vital to many applications. When evaluating the use of NoSQL in new projects or upgrades to existing projects, project managers should take close examination of the potentially hidden costs of NoSQL. Have you experienced some hidden costs in your NoSQL implementation? Let us know in the comments. Human/Knowledge Resources Learning NoSQL
At the dawn of the internet websites were created without much thought as to what changes, if any, would need be made in the future. To keep your website relevant, gaining new links, keeping users satisfied and getting traffic from search engines, you need to have a maintenance plan. As with any maintenance plan small
I know that there’s a slick iPhone and iPad app store [ed. note: generally this is called the "iTunes Store" or "App Store", depending on your preference] but I understand that there’s also a similar online software store for Mac OS X applications and games too? Cool. Where is this Mac App Store and how
So it’s Christmastime again, and you’re not quite sure how to get Christmas shoppers to your site from the search engines. Or perhaps you’re just wondering if it’s even worth your time optimizing for. Actually, it’s really easy to get your site in front of millions Christmas shoppers within just a few minutes, even if
The power of SQL is that we are able to construct queries to find specific sets of data based on criteria. For example, if we have a database for a pound, we might query “Find me all the brown dogs.” The result from this query would return how many brown dogs we have, if any,
When it comes to search engine optimization and optimizing your web site, the anchor text of your internal links, anchor text of those links are important. Let’s take a look further and discuss more about internal anchor text links.
Our friends over at Bing recently posted about the 9 areas of your website which you should be able to control as a website owner. Whether you control them directly or you can influence them through your web developer is irrelevant…as long as you can have changes made in a reasonable timeframe. This is list
