Website Design & Marketing

Archive for September, 2009
11 Websites for Web Analysis
Posted in Industry News, Web Design & Development on September 27th, 2009 by Rusty

As with every web design comes web analysis. Web analysis is important because you need to find out what areas of your website traffic is finding more interesting so you can continually tweak your site for optimum deliverability and monetization. Below I have…

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24 Search Engine Ranking Factors That Matter
Posted in Industry News on September 18th, 2009 by Rusty

While trying to increase my page ranking I was stumped as to why I still had no page rank and over 1500 backlinks. After some browsing on SEOMoz.org I found my factors and have since used these 24 search engine ranking factors in…

13 Essential Wordpress Plugins
Posted in Wordpress on September 15th, 2009 by Rusty

Here I’ve compiled a list of Wordpress plugins that I personally use and you should too, that is, if you want a spam-free, quick loading, easily manageable and search engine friendly web site. In my 3 years using Wordpress, I’ve found these to…

Use PHP to Ping Technorati on your blog updates
Posted in PHP / MySQL, Social Networking on September 15th, 2009 by Rusty

If you are familiar with blogosphere you know what is Technorati.

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. You can submit your blog to Technorati and ping their servers when your blog site is updated. when you ping Technorati their web…

Tracking outgoing links with Google Analytics and jQuery
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 14th, 2009 by Rusty

When looking for an easy way to track outgoing links in Google Analytics with jQuery I came across this plugin. However, I needed a more flexible way of link tracking, with more control on which links to track and in what format.

For…

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jQuery with other frameworks without conflicts
Posted in Javascript / AJAX, Web Design & Development on September 9th, 2009 by Rusty

While jQuery is certainly a popular JavaScript framework, it’s by no means the only game in town. Other frameworks such as Prototype, MooTools, Dojo and many others all have their own strengths, weaknesses, and devoted groupies.

Generally speaking, these frameworks all play well…

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Introducing jQuery $(document).ready()
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 5th, 2009 by Rusty

This is the first thing to learn about jQuery: If you want an event to work on your page, you should call it inside the $(document).ready() function. Everything inside it will load as soon as the DOM is loaded and before the page…

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Create a jQuery draggable sitemap
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 3rd, 2009 by Rusty

There are a handful of javascript libraries and plugins available that attempt this task, but none of them worked flawlessly with our HTML. The real issue here is that javascript alone cannot produce a slick solution, the HTML and CSS need to be…

Creating a jQuery RSS Aggregator (reader)
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 1st, 2009 by Rusty

Chad Udell with Visual Rinse wrote a fantastic tutorial on creating a jQuery RSS Feed Reader using a PHP proxy to bypass browser security displaying any xml feed using AJAX.

Read more on his blog post http://visualrinse.com/2008/09/24/how-to-build-a-simple-rss-reader-with-jquery/

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