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GoDaddy is Down and So Are You

No it’s not just you. GoDaddy is down at the moment and (somehow) they’ve taken millions of sites down with them. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. For the latest updates, check out Techcrunch’s coverage (obviously not hosted with GoDaddy). Thinking …

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Why Firefox should be the default

I was reading a post on Mozilla’s blog about why you should make Firefox your default browser and I thought I’d post MY (more realistic) reasons why. I’ve also written a little bit about the other standards-based browsers out there (Safari and Chrome). As professional website design and developers, we HATE Internet Explorer. There are …

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What’s Your ProScore?

JDM regularly encourages (and sponsors) employees to take on side projects that either benefit the community or challenge us in new and innovative ways. Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of our latest project, ProScore. ProScore is a free site scorer unlike any on the web today.

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Everyone Needs a Sandbox

When I was a child, I had a sandbox. I absolutely LOVED that thing. Now I’m in the digital business, I still have a sandbox, but it’s a digital one used for testing, learning and tweaking web technologies for clients. Of course, EVERYONE with a website should have a sandbox. Why? There’s a difference between …

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Shared Hosting Reviews

Whether you want to start a blog or manage your business’s website, you’re going to need website hosting. If you’re like most people, you don’t want to buy a web server and manage it yourself, so you’re looking into shared hosting. Unfortunately, there are SO many to choose from it’s enough to make your head …

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The Death of SEO? I think not.

I recently read a post on Forbes’ website from a guy named Ken Krogue tantalizingly titled “The Death Of SEO” which really drove me up a wall. When I got to the line that reads: “So by definition the word “Search Engine Optimization” means to ‘game’ the Google search engines (and others)…”, I was so …

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White Paper Download Forms

Four ways to incorporate a white paper downloading landing page form into your WordPress website or blog. We’ll try not to get too nerdy…

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slabText, Web Font Fun

When I first started working professionally in Web design, web-safe fonts were limited to the super-basic Arial, Verdana, Times, etc. How I hated being tied to these boring, over-used fonts. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way since those days. Cufon & Google Fonts have made web-safe fonts a relic and with a little cleaver math, …

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Before you Upgrade, Backup

Whether your company’s website is built on WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS, just about everybody recommends you backup your database and files before you upgrade the core. That’s easier said than done, so let’s take a look at a few ways to backup all that precious stuff before you upgrade and possibly shoot …

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Authorship – Your picture in search results

Ever wonder why some people’s faces are showing up in search results? How do they do that? They do it by linking and then adding the Google Authorship META information to one of the links on their site. This makes what is called a “rich snippet.” How do you get your picture in search results? …

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Responsive Web Design in a Post-PC World

I think we all can agree that websites and the internet are here to stay. The growth of smart-phones, tablets (let’s be honest, iPad), and netbooks are increasing every year. In fact, it’s estimated there will be 1 mobile device for every person on earth by 2016. So let’s agree we’re in a “Post-PC” world …

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CSS or Table Layouts more SEO Friendly?

This is such a common question (from other web developers) that Google’s Matt Cutts weighed in. Although we don’t usually disagree with Matt, in this case we ABSOLUTELY do! For those of you who don’t know the difference, CSS-based layouts use a Style Sheet to set widths, heights, alignment and more for a series of …

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