Finally: Google massacre PageRank’s of spammy paid links

November 12th, 2007

A recent Google algorithm update has led to many sites’ PageRank dropping drastically, although almost all Direct Traffic’s clients saw their own results improve.

This ‘PageRank massacre’ saw websites penalised for selling links that where, random, site-wide or big blocks of paid links, with many prominent publishers affected.
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Use DataMerge in InDesign CS3

October 31st, 2007

In this episode special guest Chita Hunter returns to show us how to create personalized designs or collateral in InDesign CS3 using the DataMerge feature.
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Internal Website Navigation & PageRank

September 19th, 2007

If a site has 100 units of link equity and offers 10 sitewide categories then each category gets 10% of the link equity. If that same site limits its number of sitewide categories to 5 then each category gets 20%. By being a webmaster who tracks results one of your biggest advantages you have over webmaster who do not track results is you can limit your navigational selection to suit your financial goals.
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SEO Book

September 19th, 2007

SEO Book is the king of search engine optimization and search engine marketing. Aaron Wall’s blog is literally the one stop shop for the latest in fundamental SEO tactics and cutting edge SEO tricks.
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Real 3D in Photoshop CS3 Extended

September 17th, 2007

Although it hasn’t received a lot of attention, perhaps the most ambitious and potentially most useful new feature to come to Photoshop CS3 Extended is the ability to interact with 3D files (note: not included in the standard Photoshop CS3 version).

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New Flash gallery power for Photoshop

September 12th, 2007

Felix Turner, creator of the slick, elegant SimpleViewer Flash Web gallery (example), has provided a SimpleViewer script for Photoshop. The script makes it possible to set parameters and punch out a gallery right from Photoshop, and it’s a free download from the Airtight Interactive site.
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Retouch Photo In Proffesional Way With Photoshop CS2

February 2nd, 2007

Second version of tutorial how to retouch skin in less than 10 minutes with Photoshop. The effect is a pro looking photo retouch


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Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop

January 29th, 2007

You need to make a set of web design mockups for your client. You’d like to find an easy way to show these mockups in clean XHTML and CSS code, because plain JPGs don’t convey the full sense of the design, and sliced tables are evil. In fact, let’s forget table slices ever existed.

Caveat: This article is for people who need to produce valid, standards-compliant mockups quickly, with the graphics tools they already use. This is not a production technique for people who want to get the most benefit out of (X)HTML by creating structural, semantic markup. Creating structural, semantic markup, as A List Apart and most standardistas recommend, still takes time, thought, and hand-coding.
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Oscommerce Excel Easypopulate

January 29th, 2007

We released new contribution for oscommerce which allow administrator to import and export inventory in excel’s XLS format. The module name is Oscom Excel. A poor anolog of this script is Easy Populate module. As distinkt from Easy Populate, Excel Module doesn’t require you to convert from one file format to another, and capable to include up to 50.000 product!!! You can import and export appropratiate categories/products as well as whole stock. It support any new fields, like product attributes, languages, quantiny, manufacturers and any other fields.Here are screenshots from admin side.
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SJAX: AJAX option for automated in-browser testing

January 28th, 2007

Vitaliy Shevchuk has proposed SJAX: AJAX option for automated in-browser testing which makes testing of Ajax apps simpler with Selenium that having to waitForAjax and friends.
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