Internet Explorer 7 Z-index Bug

Today while working on a site, I ran into a really frustrating bug in IE7. While trying to stack absolutely positioned elements on a website, IE7 would not pay attention to z-index what-so-ever. The solution to this problem was to change the z-index of the parent element of what you want to display on top [...]

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What Would Happen if Google Ceased to Exist?

About 1.6 billion people use the Internet every day. Out of all of those people, about 70% of them use Google as their preferred search engine. My question for you is a simple one: What would happen if Google ceased to exist? This thought came to me today when a Google outage brought the Internet [...]

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Google Outage Brings the Internet to a Crawl

As you may or may not have noticed, the Internet ran into a few complications today. Apparently the problem has been linked to an AT&T routing problem somewhere in the Midwest. Some people didn’t experience any problems, while others were unable to access many large websites, most notably, Google. Several other large website such as [...]

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Useful Uses of Mod Rewrite

In this tutorial, I’m going to be teaching what mod rewrite is and few examples of its uses. Mod rewrite is a powerful tool and one of the simplest ways to make your website more SEO friendly.
What is Mod Rewrite?
Mod rewrite is a part of apache servers that can rewrite requested URLs on the fly. [...]

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Tips To Make Your Website SEO Friendly

There are many techniques that web developers use to better their SEO. If you follow these simple steps, you will be ranked very high on every search engine except Google. Google is the ONLY search engine that is difficult to rank high on unless you have a very unique name to your website that people [...]

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Unobtrusive Open Link in New Window

As many of you know by now, the attribute ‘target’ will not validate in an XHTML document. This creates quite a few problems for us because we don’t always want people leaving our site entirely. With a simple JavaScript code you can easily open external links in new windows unobtrusively!
First, make a link with the [...]

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Unobtrusive Input Clear on Focus

I’ve seen a lot of functions out there that handle the much adored input clear on focus. This is a nice feature to have on your site especially on search boxes. Also, according to usability standards, you are not supposed to leave any input field blank. The value of your input fields and textareas should [...]

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