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I’ve been writing a lot of articles regarding CSS recently so I thought I would mix it up by talking briefly about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There’s a wealth of information out there giving away tips and strategies on how to rank well on search engines, but most jump straight into the “optimizing” portion of the formula.

I have been mentoring some friends with their web design / front-end development and I noticed a common pattern of mistakes that they tend to make that I would like to share today. Although the following examples may be stating the obvious, it seems most beginners make these mistakes quite frequently. So if you are a beginner, please read on!

Just would like to rant today about some thoughts I’ve been dealing with recently. No tutorials or informative post today, sorry! If you have some time to hear me out please do!

This is an extension to my previous tutorial regarding enhancing images with CSS. What I went over was how to visually achieve the watermark on your image, but now let’s take a step further and protect the image from it being downloaded.

Here are a few simple tricks to add some flavor to your typical bland images. Using Photoshop to style each image can be tedious and difficult to maintain in the long run. These following CSS techniques will help you ease that pain! If you have some of your own techniques, please share them!

WordPress is quickly dominating the web industry as one of the top most popular CMS and blogging systems out there. Ever since I got into using WordPress I never thought of going back to anything else. For those who don’t know about it’s benefits, let me just go over a few points:

Recently while updating a client’s site, I needed to put up a quick “Site Down for Maintenance” page for the 15mins that it was down for. There are ways to redirect all pages to a custom “Site Down” page using the .htaccess file, but I was in a bit of a rush and time constraint to set this up, so I decided to do this the quick and dirty way.