Category: Internet and Tech
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Parallax scrolling effect, the new web thing to do on your site
As the web changes, new designs and effects become popular and you see them across many sites. One new effect I’ve been seeing more and more is the “parallax scrolling effect” where you have backgrounds stay in place as the user scrolls down the page. If you somehow haven’t seen this cool effect yet, check…
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WordPress plugins you should use for your WordPress site
This blog post was going to be a post specifically for my wife with suggestions on what WordPress plugins to use for her sites, but the more I thought about it, these plugins should be used on most/if not all WordPress sites (or similar plugins that provide the same features). Below is a list of…
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Epics, stories and sprints in Agile
I recently started working on an Agile team, using the Scrum framework, at my job and I have to say I am enjoying it, as it’s different from the traditional “waterfall” method. What I wanted to go over today in this blog post were a few agile terms: epics, stories and sprints. I will be…
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Cool HTML5 tips for form inputs
I wanted to share these cool quick tips that HTML5 provides to basic HTML web forms that will save you time and work in the end. Remember though, these tips only work in web browsers that support HTML5. Placeholder attributeYou can now easily have “placeholder” text display inside a text field, whereas before you had…
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A cheat sheet for Google Analytics terms
Ever get confused about the terminology Google Analytics uses? That’s a definite “yes” for me. Well Search Engine Watch put together a good blog post with terms that Google uses and they listed Google’s definition of those terms and also they put in plain English what the terms mean. Below are the terms that are…
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No more CSS conditional comments for IE10+
I was working on an older site this past week and an issue came up where the IE10 web browser was showing different spacing compared to the Google Chrome web browser. My initial thoughts were to use CSS conditional comments to make a specific class have different padding for IE web browsers. Well I didn’t…
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Testing your web site in different web browsers and mobile devices
When building your web site, at some point you should test how your site looks in different web browsers and mobile devices. To do this all you need is the Google Chrome web browser. Follow the steps below to test your site. The below steps were written while using Chrome version 33.0.1750.154. Future updates of…
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Enhance SEO for your WordPress blog
WordPress by itself does a good job with SEO (search engine optimization) but you can make improvements to help your site with SEO as there are some nice free WordPress plugins to do this for you. I’ll go over the two plugins I use to help with SEO and getting indexed by search engines. The…