A banner ad is an effective and speedy way to promote your website, blog or product. Of course though, this comes at a cost in terms of your pennies and some stiff competition. 90% of the time you’ll be competing along side other advertisers, so the design of your banner is crucial.

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I’ve been on YouTube for a while but recently moved to another video service called Vimeo to host my screencasts, mainly because their site/player looks a lot better. What I’ve also found is that when you’re browsing YouTube you’re more likely to come across your average Joe mucking around with his camera phone rather than [...]

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Welcome to part four of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This 4th part covers setting up WordPress’s amazing comment system, getting your pages (pages.php) looking like the rest of your blog, setting up your dynamic highlighting nav’ and more! I’ve also provided code snippets below which would of bored you all to death explaining so [...]

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Welcome to part three of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This third part introduces you to The Loop and getting your blog to work with WordPress’s main function, blogging! I’ll also step into plugins to allow you to create thumbnails for your posts.

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Welcome to part two of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! Since last time I have come up with a design for the blog and coded it up into XHTML and CSS. Before moving onto part two I recommend that you come up with your own design and code it up too. Though if you want [...]

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Welcome to part one of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This first part covers downloading and installing a localhost called MAMP, downloading WordPress and setting up a database for it and finally, installing WordPress itself. This time around I’ll be doing screen-casts as opposed to saying do this do that, so you should be able [...]

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Twitter has absolutely exploded over the past few months, it’s all over the radio and TV; even some ‘celebrities’ can’t get enough of Twitter - yes I am refferring to Ashton Kutcher.
With a lot of social experiments like this you need and should want to make it your own, by using a custom Twitter badge. [...]

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