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Top 15 WordPress Plugins to Make Your Blog Secure

You think the more secure blog, the more successful blogging job, don’t you? You can keep your blog secure by installing a bunch of WordPress security plugins. However, instead of activating too many plugins that have the same features, same purposes… and even some issues because of the conflicts between them, you should consider using only these top plugins that help you to do the job better.

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Bulletproof of Mind Mapping: Overview, Benefits, Tips and Tools

Many people these days feel that their minds are being flooded with various bits and pieces of data or information and they quite naturally find that it is more and more difficult to organize many of their thoughts. Along with this lack of logical thought the people start to experience moments of time where they find they are forgetting relevant facts, dates, events and similar data. During important meetings these same people may find that it is difficult to even take simple notes. The problems that I have just mentioned are typical of those that many people have been experiencing lately in their daily activities.

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Kick-ass CSS3 Support in IE6, 7, and 8

We all know that IE 6,7 not support the new increase CSS3 property, even with IE8 which is not fully ready for CSS3 yet. You know what, there is a script hack that helps you enable CSS3 support in IE (even with IE6) with new CSS3 properties, including: border-radius (rounded), box-shadow ( shadow), text-shadow (the shadow of the text).

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40 Excellent jQuery Plugins To Work With Data Presentation and Grid Layout

Jquery is becoming increasingly known in the web designers and developers community. Why not take advantage of its magic? In this collection we showcase some really cool jquery plugins and resources to enhance data presentation in grid layout design. Some are practical plugins that will definitely provide a fond user experience. As well, some refined resources that will help layout the span of data beautifully.

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Learning jQuery: Your First jQuery Plugin, “BubbleUP”

Update: The icons used in this tutorial can be found free here.

There are many posts available detailing how to write your own jQuery plugin. It won’t take long before you realize that building in jQuery is very simple. Continuing in our jQuery Learning Series, here we’re going to build your first jQuery plugin. It’ll generate a bubble effect for your menu list and we’re going to call it BubbleUP.

What is BubbleUP? BubbleUP is a fun and easy plugin to get you started in jQuery. The effect is a nice starting point for learning the basics and many of the steps involved in creating other more intricate plugins you will make in the future. With this plugin, images in a list will enlarge with a smooth animation when you move your mouse over it. Then, if you move the mouse out, it will reset to the original size with the same smooth animation.

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12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz

So. Google just recently announced Google Buzz. I’m not sure about you, but I didn’t see this coming. Sure, Google was bound to start a social network of some sort at some time; but, I didn’t think it’d be this soon!

After spending a few hours on Google Buzz, we’re proud to present you with 12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz. Before you start drinking the Google juice, though, make sure you choose a designated driver! (Ya, I know. Bad joke.)

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20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business

If I told you that there are twenty different ways you can streamline your web design business, make more money and work less, would you believe me? What if I showed you – would you believe me then? In this article, you will find twenty different ways you can streamline your web business. Some of which will cover work aspects while others will cover administrative tasks, but all in all, the end goal is the same:  making more money and working less.

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10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3

In the last few years, web design has improved significantly. There are so many tutorials out there to increase the skills capacity web designers and web developers. Some popular browsers such as Firefox, Safari already supported some CSS3 properties, and now the designer has many CSS3 properties. Today, I will share some tutorials, tips and tricks about CSS3.

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WordPress Theme from Scratch – Day 3: HTML to WordPress

This tutorial is in the series of “WordPress Theme from Scratch” that helps you build a WordPress theme by yourself from nothing. Previous tutorial in this series helped we convert a mockup in PSD to HTML and today, we will continue to go to last tutorial: build WordPress theme from the HTML file.

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Bubble Effect with CSS

You might be familiar with the plugin jQuery Dock which allows developers to create a menu like Apple Dock. Today, you will create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn’t have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it’s helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS. This tutorial includes two methods: CSS sprites (basic) and the image swapping (advanced).

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