How to Improve Your Site Load Speed

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Even the best developers run into problems with download speed. The following six tips will help you improve site speed and rank higher in search results: Minimize on-page components. Between flash, stylesheets, and scripts, multiple processes can occur behind the scenes that will significantly slow a page’s load time. If you combine style sheets or replace images with CSS, the HTTP requests that make on-page elements function won’t have an opportunity to slow down your site. Compress large pages. Over the past year, Google has made it abundantly clear that SEO best practices involve the use of long-form content, videos, and shareable media to reach more customers and rank higher in SERPs. Unfortunately, all this additional content can reduce load speed. Try to compress your larger pages so they take…
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The 7 Step Process For Writing a Blog Post That People Will Actually Read

Internet and Media, News, Techniques
Step #1: Choose a Topic Your Audience Cares About In the past, blogs were mostly used by teenagers to share their inner musings and bad poetry. Since then, blogging has evolved into a valuable tool that businesses use to connect with their audiences and share important information with potential customers. Unfortunately, this transition hasn’t been entirely smooth. Although business blogging has been widely adopted as a marketing practice, the people don’t always know how to select the blog topics that will best serve their business goals. The solution is to write about topics other people care about. Don’t think about what you’d like to read – think about the problems your audience is having and how your blog content can help position your business as the solution. If you don’t know…
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How to add Multiple Google Maps on one page?

Techniques, Tutorials, Web Design & Programming
Here is how you can generate multiple maps on the same page using Google Map API V3. [caption id="attachment_1230" align="aligncenter" width="463"] Multiple-Google-Map[/caption] HTML [code] <div id="map_canvas" style="width:700px; height:500px; margin-left:80px;" ></div> <div id="map_canvas2" style="width:700px; height:500px; margin-left:80px;" ></div> [/code] JavaScript [code] <script type="text/javascript"> var map,map2; function initialize(condition) { // create the map var myOptions = { zoom: 14, center: new google.maps.LatLng(0.0, 0.0), mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP } map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions); map2 = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas2"), myOptions); } </script> [/code] Conclusion Integrating multiple Google Maps on a single web page can significantly enhance user experience and provide valuable information. By following this step-by-step guide, you can easily create and customize multiple maps using the Google Maps JavaScript API. Whether you're building a travel portal, a location-based directory, or any other project, multiple maps can…
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Best Filter Plugins for WordPress Blog

WordPress, wordpress plugins
Awesome Filterable Portfolio The plugin lets you create a very modern and outstanding filterable portfolio. More Info | Download WordPress Options The plugin allows you to easily add options to your products, themes or plugins. More Info | Download Advanced Post Manager The plugin allows you to turbo charge your posts admin for any custom post type with sortable filters and columns, and auto-registration of meta-boxes. More Info | Download WP Hide Post The plugin enables you to control the visibility of items on your blog by making posts/pages hidden on some parts of your blog, while still visible in other part. More Info | Download wpautop control The plugin allows you to add a global setting to turn the wpautop filter on and off as well as to override…
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How to hide WordPress admin for your subscribers?

CMS, Web Design & Programming, Web Development Services, WordPress
These functions will help you for hiding  WordPress admin for your subscribers. We’ve used a capability of “edit_posts” which is just outside of the roles of a Subscriber user. If the user is logged in, but can’t edit posts, then hide the admin bar on the frontend of the website. If the user is logged in, but can’t edit posts, do not allow them to access the WordPress admin panel. This code could go in functions.php of your theme or in a plugin you create. /** * Disable admin bar in frontend for subscribers. */ function themeblvd_disable_admin_bar() { if( ! current_user_can('edit_posts') ) add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); } add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'themeblvd_disable_admin_bar' ); /** * Redirect to homepage and not allow access to * WP admin for Subscribers. */ function themeblvd_redirect_admin(){ if ( !…
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Web Design Basics

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In the last 25 years the internet has changed substantially, and consumer behavior has changed even more. Websites now dominates the way we communicate, the way we shop, and the way we make decisions both online and also in the face-to-face world. Every web designer has a secret or two. Hard-won workflows, hidden hacks, and insider knowledge that are the mark of true experience and the stuff that separates great web design training from good. You have to remember that the choices are all yours, because it's your site, and you have to decide what you like. Choices like which colors, styles, fonts, graphics and writing styles to use are all very personal choices and not to be made lightly. Here, we've managed to persuade some of the web's busiest…
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How to Create a MySQL Database in Azure?

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This guide will show you how to use ClearDB to create a MySQL database from the Azure Store and how to create a MySQL database as a linked resource when you create a Azure Web Site . ClearDB is a fault-tolerant database-as-a-service provider that allows you to run and manage MySQL databases in Azure datacenters and connect to them from any application. Table of Contents How to: Create a MySQL database from the Azure Store How to: Create a MySQL database as a linked resource for Azure Web Site Read More
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