Introduction to social network games

Introduction to social network games

Social platforms such as Facebook and Google+ became a part our day to day life, it’s used to communicate with friends, family, business partners, etc. These social platforms brought us something “new”: social games. I wrote “new” between quotes because social games are not new, social games began about 5000 years ago. The social network games that are played today on Facebook and [...]
Debugging JavaScript and jQuery with Firebug

Debugging JavaScript and jQuery with Firebug

I am developing web pages and recently I am looking more and more in HTML 5, CSS3 and jQuery powered websites. These 3 technologies make it possible to create the next generation of websites that will soon be able to run on any device, it does not matter if it is your mobile phone, your computer or your iPad. The painstaking part of this 3 some is the JavaScript code that is involved with jQuery [...]
How to build an online survey or poll with Google documents

How to build an online survey or poll with Google documents

Note: To get started you need to have a Google Account, creating one is out of the scope of this tutorial. If you want to build an online survey you have various tools and scripts to choose from, even Facebook recently started to offer a survey/poll feature. But the simplest method to create a online survey is to use Google Documents. The first thing you need to do is to write down all your questions [...]
Do you want large fries with that?

Do you want large fries with that?

When you’re selling products, it does not matter what; shoes, petrol, bread or junk food there is always a possibility to optimize your sales process. For example: if you’re going to buy a bagel then in most cases you’re not asked if your want something to drink with it. This is a missed opportunity from the sales person to make some fast extra cash. The profit margin on a sandwich or bagel [...]
WordPress Installer – Dan Raine did it again

WordPress Installer – Dan Raine did it again

Dan Raine might shoot me for this review but I could not hide this magnificent WordPress Installer tool from you. This morning I found an email from Dan Raine from the Immediate Edge asking if I would like to beta-test his new software application a WordPress Installer. Since I have more than 150 domains that need to have WordPress installed I was glad to accept. As soon as I came to the front [...]
Overriding an existing style or style sheet in WordPress

Overriding an existing style or style sheet in WordPress

As you most likely know modern web pages and also pages generated by WordPress consist out of a combination of images, html code, JavaScript, style sheets and probably some rich media such as flash movies, etc. But at this moment we are most interested in style sheets. But what is a style sheet? A style sheet is a form that gives the generator of your website the possibility to separate the presentation [...]
Google things that make you think

Google things that make you think

Domain registration period Does the length of your domain registration is part of the Google algorithm? E.g. if you register a domain name for 5 years does Google classify this as a serious domain name while if you register the domain name for let’s say 1 year the domain name is seen as a throw away domain? Editing an already indexed page When you’ve got pages nicely indexed into Google and [...]
The Return Of Paying: Paid Content Delivery

The Return Of Paying: Paid Content Delivery

Today people are overwhelmed with the huge amount free content available. The amount of information that is presented to you when executing a single search query within Google presents you with such an overload if information that you don’t know where to start and where to end. With the help of various SEO techniques Internet marketers and website owners try to fight all for the first top 10 [...]
Lady Gaga – A Textbook Marketing Example That You Could Use

Lady Gaga – A Textbook Marketing Example That You Could Use

We all know the artist Lady Gaga, but who is Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga is a girl that comes from the suburbs of New York, like any girl in America, Canada, United Kingdom, etc. She could be your next door neighbor, a girl you can see in the shopping mall, on high school or in your favorite restaurant. Lady Gaga is not real, she is a mirage, and everything around the person Lady GaGa is pure marketing. [...]
Facebook, what did you do? The latest update of Facebook

Facebook, what did you do? The latest update of Facebook

Last year Facebook was unavailable, rumors where that this was because Facebook did some changes deep in the code of Facebook to allow switching of accounts. A leak of the layout that first showed in December 2010 showed that something’s would change dramatically on out Facebook fan page: tabs where moved from the top to the sidebar, as shown in the screenshot below (courtesy mahabale.com). Today, [...]
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