I’ve previously had a go at creating a website checklist of the things you should pay attention to prior to the launch of a new site, however I haven’t went into great detail on the things which make a difference with regards to search engine optimisation and marketing. So here’s my own personal SEO checklist of things that are likely to increase the effectiveness of your website, and the exposure of your content.

It seems like everything Apple creates turns to gold, and the release of the new IPAD is no expection. Even though the IPAD has only been out a few months, many amazing applications are already available, with many of the applications being very useful for Web Developers, Web Designers, and Graphic Designers. Below is a selection of IPAD tools, applications, and resources which I found to be very useful. This round-up list features almost 30 IPAD tools and applications, as well as a list of IPAD resources, that I know web designers, web developers and all those with creatives minds will find very handy! I hope you enjoy this post and find it useful! Feel free to add any additional tools or resources I may have forgotten!

Use of conditional comments to target certain versions of Internet Explorer is pretty commonplace nowadays, and is generally seen as the best-practice method for including separate styles for IE.

Of course, I’ve argued in a previous article that if your IE-only styles are minimal, then you should just include them in your main stylesheet, a notion that others have echoed.

But conditional comments have some unique possibilities and quirks that maybe you haven’t considered before, or have simply forgotten. Here is an overview of some things you may not know about conditional comments.

XMPPHP is the successor to Class.Jabber.PHP that I've been promising for years. Taking advantage of PHP5, I believe it to be an elegant solution with a direct approach.

Some of the features include:

* Connect to any XMPP 1.0 server (Google Talk, LJ Talk, jabber.org, etc)
* Supports TLS encryption
* Several XML processing approaches and supported styles (process indefinitely, processUntil an event, processTime for a number of seconds), waiting on events or map them, etc.

GAPI is now at version 1.3 - This version contains fixes for the handling of very large metric values represented in scientific notation. Thanks to austinrehab for raising this issue.

Development is complete on the Google Analytics filter control. You can now filter your results using a simple GAPI filter string, for example:

$filter = 'country == United States && browser == Firefox || browser == Chrome';

You can create simple query strings that represent the logic Google Analytics requires, but it is abstracted enough to be more readable and easier to work with.

I’ve been working all the free time I had this week in the class to make better SEO in your PHP.

Few days a go I posted about some SEO functions for PHP but was still too many things to improve.

php user class is an easy to use php snippet for user manipulation (register, login, etc.) for your php & MySQL driven applications. The aim of this project is to provide a generic class that can be used by any developer no matter what are the needs of the project that is going to be used.

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of May and June 2010. You’ll find everything from creating a distressed vector typographic poster design, to creating an adrenaline filled car chase scene. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out?

Good Day my friends =) today I’m sharing really cool and useful freebie - Vector Wings! Wings have always been in trend and there are so many ways you can use it in graphics. First of all I’m sharing 2 sets of my own detailed and feathery wings I draw and collect during last years. Plus I’m featuring the best sets of my friends.

Although there is the huge amount of free softwares available online but open-source softwares have numerous advantages, apart from their price (i.e. free), they provide you the right to modify and redistribute the software with modifications. The right to modify is important, it enables you to change the software the way you like, also there are plenty of softwares developed but never updated, in this case if you have the right to modify then they can be very handy for needy people as anybody can update it. So looking at their importance, in this article we will feature 50 essential “open-source” applications for your Mac; those which will help in performing your daily life task easily.

Dual Screen as the name suggests helps you to work in two screens simultaneously. They are extremely helpful if you are working on many projects at the same time and do not like the idea of frequently switching on from one screen to another. It consumes less time from your side and you do not have to wait to look at your results.

In this tutorial, you are going to learn what a console is, and more importantly, how you can leverage it to learn JavaScript and DOM quickly.

Nature is fascinating and often weird, it surprises us when we expect less. Some creatures use the camouflage techniques as a hunting and defense mechanism, others show everything they have, literally. This post is dedicated to the latter ones.

Despite of what we are inclined to think, transparent and translucent animals live also on the ground, not only in the abyss of the ocean and we have visual proof of it. Nothing is photoshopped!

Which files are we going to be examining (and producing)? Deciding which files to cover was certainly not an easy task for me, and there are many other files (such as .htaccess which we won’t cover) you can implement that can provide your website a boost.

The files I’ll talk about here were chosen for their usefulness as well as their ease of implementation. Maximum bang for our buck.

We’re going to cover robots.txt, favicon.ico, sitemap.xml, dublin.rdf and opensearch.xml. Their purposes range from helping search engines index your site accurately, to acting as usability and interoperability aids.

An all singing and all dancing CMS (who uses all of there features anyway?) is not always the best option for every web design project, sometimes all you need is something with a little less punch, something with a smaller learning curve and something that is really, really light.

All of the CMSes below can be regarded as ‘light’, that’s not to say they are lightweights, but what they are is a simpler system, for you and your clients, to manage content.

And best of all? All of these CMSes are open-source.