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Social Networking

March 3, 2010

The most popular social network is of course MySpace. Though the social giant enjoys over 20 million unique visitors every month, few businesses or website owners have thought to penetrate this incredible resource. Versions of social networking include blogging social networks – primarily Technorati.com. Technorati indexes blogs based on the amount of incoming links those […]

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Opera Browser 9.6 is Out!

February 17, 2010

Here is definitely a battle taking place online, the “browser wars” have recently seen the entry of Google’s Chrome browser, which has had mixed reviews so far, and now Opera have piped up with their latest browser addition.

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Service Enhancments

Joomla added to our Web Hosting Platform

January 28, 2010

Umbrella Host home of the UK’s fastest growing web host is today adding Joomla! to the expanding list of applications it’s customers can install. Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet.

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

January 22, 2010

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to separate the stylistic elements of a page such as layout, colour and fonts from the content of the page such as paragraphs and images. We call this Separation of Content from Presentation.

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Hints and Tips Web Design

5 Open Source Programs For Web Designers

Last Updated November 29, 2018

As the economic situation in the world worsens, everyone is looking for a way to cut back costs. One way you can cut back costs is by using open source programs instead of expensive programs. While the open source programs may not be as pretty, they do get the job done. What’s even better is […]

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7 Common Mistakes of Email Marketing

January 18, 2010

With the holiday season here, email has been on my mind. And many folks just starting out ask about pitfalls to avoid for their email marketing and communications campaigns. So here we go: seven surefire ways you’ll be emailing directly to a trash can or spam filter. These are common mistakes in email marketing. They […]

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