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in Resources by Paul // July 8

WordPress Plugins For Any Blog

I’m often get asked what are the best wordpress plugins to use on a new site or for any site for that matter. I can’t give an exact list of plugins to use because obviously every website different. Some may just be a blog, some may be a blog with pages, some may be a ecommerce site, or a forum. There are so many different functionality that I can’t give a clear list.

But there are a few plugins that can be used on any site and will give the same results.

Below is a list of plugins which I’ve used in the past and do a really good job, they are all free and can be downloaded from the wordpress pluin directory.
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in Articles by Paul // July 8

Reasons Why I Use JQuery Framework

A couple of years ago it looked like javascript was a dead language, it was slow, it was hard to debug and it was inconsistent on the different browsers.

But then the saviour of JavaScript came along in the shape of jQuery.

jQuery is a just a framework which uses JavaScript, but as it is a framework it will make the changes to your code so that everything you write will stay the same on all browsers. Great no longer do we need to use those if statements for if firefox then do this, if IE6 then do this, if IE7 then do this, jQuery will take care of it for you.
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in Resources by Paul // July 6

Blank WordPress Themes To Start Your Theme

If you design themes regularly then you know about the code that you have to write over and over again. It doesn’t matter how much you love doing if you have to write the same thing it will get boring.

The good approach to take is to use a framework as it already has most of the code that you will need to write. Even better than using a WordPress framework is to use an already produced wordpress theme and redo it to the new style.
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in PHP by Paul // July 4

Learn How To Create An AJAX PHP Coming Soon Page

To download source files go to demo page.

Demo

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a Coming Soon Page which allows the visitor to send their email address which can be delivered to an email or to be stored in a database. This will just a similar approach to a contact form but then a setting will decide how the email address is stored.
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in Articles by Paul // June 26

Creating A Successful Coming Soon Page

What To Expect From A Coming Soon Page

When you first purchase a domain for your next web project, most of the time you haven’t created the web page so what do you do with the web site until your pages are ready to be launched.

  1. You can do nothing and just have a blank domain
  2. Use it as a parked domain to try to earn income from keywords
  3. Create a single page to be indexed from the search engines.

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in jQuery by Paul // June 20

Process Each Node Of XML In JQuery

JQuery is a very useful tool to use to loop through elements, this is because of the each function. It will loop through each of the elements it has in the jQuery object, this can be a HTML dom element, or multiple elements or in this example is xml nodes.

JQuery can load a file of XML and loop through by using 2 built-in jQuery functions the .get function and the each function.
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in Resources by Paul // June 11

How to Plan a New Website Project

Planning The Website

Website Planning

When you come to create a website, planning is everything. You need to know everything about the websites before you have written a line of code. You need to know the reasons for the website, the content that is being display, the pages that are needed and the device to collect data.
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in Articles by Paul // June 11

Reason why I Prefer PHP development over .NET development

Now before the mass of Microsoft lovers comment on this I have to say that I realise what .net can offer and I know it allows me to create the same functionality as any website written in PHP with a lot less code and further bugs because of the less code. But is that nessacessary a good thing…as a web developer with many years experience in both technologies I don’t think this is an advantage to the framework and is more of a disadvantage to using .net.

Now this is not another PHP vs .net comparsion because I don’t think it is fair to compare these two exactly, because simply they are not the same thing and if you think they are the same you might as well stop reading now if not then continue reading or in geek language.

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in Articles by Paul // June 9

25 Quick SEO Tips Every Website Should Follow

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is not a quick process or a guaranteed process and if anyone else tells you anything else they are lying.

No Search Engine Optimization expert can guarantee you number position in Google for your most competitive keywords, but there are things you can do to help your website get to the top of the search engine results.

I’m not saying follow all these tips and you will be top but they can certainly help. Most of these Search Engine Optimization tips are known as on-page Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which means these are things you can change on your existing website. These will be title tags, descriptions, header tags, content and links.
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