SEO essentials

SEO is a very important part of every websites’ revenue. You may concentrate on short term success but the long term success is the one which will bring you serious and stable money. It can be achieved with proper search engine optimization and therefore if you are in this business you need to know a few important things about SEO. The main purpose of good SEO is to attract a big number of visitors from search engines. You will not have to pay for these visitors like it More

White hat and black hat SEO

The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most popular methods of maximizing the profits of an online business. SEO has great advantages for website owners in terms of generating more traffic and therefore more money from their online business. The purpose of SEO is getting the website to the first pages of search engines. As there are millions of searches performed every day on these search engines, your website will be accessed by thousands of people. As a normal More

SEO or Web Design?

SEO and web design are two of the most popular concepts in the Internet world. They are similar in some ways but there are also many differences between them. There are companies that offer both of these services to their customers and other companies that are specialized on one of them. In this article you will find the basic similarities, relations and differences between SEO and web design. If you are new to Internet business you should be able to make a difference between SEO More

Web design for SEO basics

The web design is the part of website creation that consists of the proper layout of images and text on a web page. The actual creation of the web pages can be seen as web design. The web design is one of the most important parts of websites as it can help you best at making your website stand out from the others. There is no purpose in posting a lot of quality content without having people who read it. Through having a great web design you may actually create a link between More

Stealing visitor’s cookies with PHP and JavaScript

Yes, you read well: we’re talking about getting a visitor’s cookies through PHP and JavaScript. Obviously that person must visit a particular page on our website, which will be appositely created to look harmless and perfectly safe to browse. We”re going to try getting cookies using a really simple PHP script and a bit of JavaScript to create the dynamic URL we need. The JavaScript code is what actually gets the cookie content while the PHP part is used to save More

How people look at elements on a web page

When it comes to web design, the most important thing you should know is how people tend to look at a web page. For example, English speaking people (well, western culture to generalize) tend to read from left to right and therefore the main point of attraction for them would be in the upper left corner. Web designers use this knowledge for enhancing the website aspect. Besides the well known top left corner, there are other things that attract people’s eyes on a web page. More

Top tools to pick the best domain for your business

img { width: 100% } Picking a domain name can be a very hard task. Perhaps you already have your company name and are ready to launch it on the Web, but you can’t find the corresponding web address free. So, what to do if someone else has already registered the desired domain name and it isn’t available for buying? Just find a new one! The Web is full with resources to help you find a great alternative to your original idea, adding prefixes, suffixes and common words More

How to create your own jQuery plugin from scratch

Firstly, wouldn’t it be nice to have a plugin that, whenever you hover an element, applies some sort of styling to it? Ok, the answer I was expecting here is “yes”. Starting out As we all know, the basic structure for a plugin is jQuery.fn.pluginName = function () { return this.each (function () { // code }); } Mind the ‘jQuery’ part (not just ‘$’) so aliases can be easily set using the noConflict() method. And this would be enough More

On IP addresses, subnetting and more

Most of us have a private network at home and, when configuring it, we are always asked for a subnet mask. Whoa, what’s that? And what has a “mask” to do with my tiny network? Let’s start off with some definitions that should be common sense, bu who knows. For instance, everybody here knows what an IP address is, and even how a LAN works and what are the main problems we may encounter configuring one (if not, then Google is your friend!). In a domestic More

Ten CSS tips designers should know or learn

1. Alternative stylesheets A page can be given one default stylesheet and any number of alternate style sheets for the user to choose from. The way you can switch between them depends on the browser; most browser have this option under View -> Page Style or something similar. Some browsers unfortunatly don’t offer a menu for changing the page style yet. To include extra stylesheets, you just have to add more <link> elements in the header, with the right rel and More