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20 Extremely Useful Facebook Markup Language Tips and Tricks

Currently, Facebook users have increased significantly on worldwide. The essential successful key of “a Facebook fan page which we like to click on the like button”is, how it is different and more attractive to others. If you are tending to make a unique fan page, you should consider FBML (Facebook Markup Language).

Basically, FBML is a modified version of HTML with some features discarded and other, Facebook-specific attributes added, which can be used for developers to interact with their Facebook accounts. FBML is widely used to develop advanced pages and applications within a Fan Page. Although its simplicity can be easily recognized (friendly to HTML users), developing an advance Facebook page to make it attractive and appeal to your fan page visitors is not an easy job. Luckily, there are some amazing tutorials and guidelines for FBML for you to check as references.

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SEO Tips and Tricks for Mobile

Since the mid 90’s marketers and companies have been optimizing their sites for search engine optimization. Now SEO has evolved in a way no one could have imagined back then. Smartphones are taking over the mobile market, and most cell phones have access to the Internet.

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Shadow Motion Effect in 5 Lines Of jQuery

Who doesn’t love motion effects, right? shadows following the motion of movements while in a fighting scene, some of my favorite scenes are from The Matrix, Kung Fu Hustle, etc. I don’t event know how this effect is called, but sure is an awesome effect. The good news is that now-a-days we can create animations and play with them. It’s no an easy task to control distance and motion (the complex the code, the better control). The amazing part is that something like this can be done with 5 lines of jQuery!

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Ten Tips to Improve your Freelance Portfolio

Making a supplemental living or going pro with freelancing online requires a specific skill set–and a toolbox containing all manner of special tricks and techniques.  Building your toolbox while refining your skills comprise a fair amount of the work involved in creating a freelancing career, and one of the most important items in your toolbox is your portfolio. A great freelance portfolio should highlight your talents and give potential clients a meaningful way to choose you amongst your competitors–something that can be especially critical during your first few months, but which will remain important as you develop your reputation and experience.

As with many aspects of freelancing, creating a great portfolio doesn’t come with a standard manual or guidebook. It’s up to you to present yourself and your work with clarity and to express your value to others. But there are certainly many tips you can use to help structure and supplement your portfolio, and you’ll find some of the best below.

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How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations

In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.

However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.

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More Google Buzz Tips, Resources, Extensions, and Icons to Keep You Buzzed.

Google Buzz’s launch week is about to come to a close. And with that, we’re going to start seeing just how buzzed people are about it. But just in case you’re not buzzed yet, here’s a quick round up of the best tricks, resources, and tutorials that have sprung up in the last few days.

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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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Some helpful tutorial videos CSS & XHTML from beginning to advance

After lot of emails from visitors to me about questions: “How can you do that? …”, “Where can i find it…”, “It doesn’t work, please help….” I totally know that someone need to understand how the css works and the css rules can work without. These videos bellow i checked all and right now, i think it’s helpful for everyone who wana learn css and just begin to design XHTML & CSS. From beginning to advance, you should not miss them.

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Improve your css skill, right now!

Styling css is just follow the rules, if you run with rules, you can get a good working, but sometime, you forgot that in these rules, you missed something that can make you better in styling css. This entry is just a bit experiences i got and i wanna share with you. It’ll help you not much but without that, your design can not be better.
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