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The Google +1 Sprite Animation
How the +1 Button Works The +1 Button uses an advanced sprite technique to simulate an animated gif. The animation occurs when hovering over search results with +1 enabled, and the shine moves across the button. (The image to the … Continue reading
5 Easy Ways to Disable the Gravity Forms CSS Stylesheet
We can do this the easy way or the hard way. What’ll it be? The WordPress form plugin Gravity Forms (if you don’t use it, you should — it’s great) comes with a stylesheet found at [plugin-directory]/plugins/gravityforms/css/forms.css. SEODenver.com’s is found … Continue reading
Posted in Plugins, WordPress
Tagged CSS, Gravity Forms, Gravity Forms Mod, Gravity Forms Plugin, WordPress Development, wp_dequeue_style
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How to prevent your Google background image from fading in slowly.
Google + slow loading = not worth having background images. In trying to keep their homepage as minimal as possible, in December Google switched to fading in the home page links only on an event: moving your mouse or tabbing … Continue reading
How to Prevent Loading WP-DownloadManager’s CSS File
If you want to disable the WordPress plugin WP-DownloadManager‘s download-css.css file from being loaded, add the following code to your functions.php file: remove_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘downloads_stylesheets’); Alternatively, if you would just like to use your own stylesheet, you can add a file … Continue reading
Posted in Code, QuickTip, WordPress
Tagged CSS, load time, Plugin, Plugins, WordPress Plugins, WP Plugins, WP-DownloadManager
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WordPress Search Engine Friendly Logo
Optimize your logo using SEO-friendly techniques. Google’s algorithm likes text more than images. It likes headlines more than paragraphs. You can increase how much weight your headline has by only having one or two of them. Having the same headline … Continue reading
Posted in SEO
Tagged CSS, H1, Logo, SEO, SEO Link, SEO Logo, WordPress header, WordPress SEO
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Introducing: the SEO Stylesheet for Safari, Firefox, Opera, and IE
Firefox gets all the cool toys As I’ve written before, Firefox SEO — not Safari — gets all the glory. One of the great things about Firefox is the Add-ons (plugins) that extend its functionality. For web developers and SEOs, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in SEO
Tagged CSS, Firefox, Firefox SEO, IE6, IE6 SEO, IE7, IE7 SEO, Nofollow Stylesheet, Opera, Opera SEO, Safari, Safari SEO, SEO Addons, SEO Plugins, SEO Stylesheet, SEO User StyleSheets, User Stylesheets
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Simple Vertical Align Plugin for jQuery
Sometimes you may want to vertically align a block item, but the CSS-only vertical aligning methods don’t make you feel clean. Personally, I hate having to style items as a table/table cell to get them to vertically align in Internet Explorer. … Continue reading
Posted in Code, jQuery
Tagged CSS, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Plugin, Plugin, Vertical, Vertical Align
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Google’s Sprite Image is a Thing of Beauty
Google Sprite changes over time: If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s: Then: Now: Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo2.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo3.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo5.png … Continue reading
Disable Styles and Javascript in Safari with Keyboard Shortcuts – How To
Now Safari’s just as cool as Firefox If you’re a web developer on the Mac, you may be sick of everyone talking about Firefox Addons that do everything but wipe your ass. True, Firefox is a great browser that is … Continue reading
Posted in Tutorial
Tagged Apple, CSS, Development, Firefox, Hacks, How To, Javascript, Mac, Safari, Tutorial, Web Developer, Web Development
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SteveSpangler.com Web Design Launched
Visit Katz Web Design-developed SteveSpangler.com As announced in August, Steve Spangler chose Katz Web Design to develop their blog. Their previous blog was aging and didn’t provide the functionality they needed. I was provided with a design by Blake Sumrall … Continue reading →