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    Kevin Vigneault on Banner Ad Placement Heat Map
  • Hey mate,
    I noticed you mentioned that the observed common placements do not match up closely with Google’s suggestion.

    This is where I think you might have went a little askew. What you...

    Pressyo - Chewxy on Banner Ad Placement Heat Map
  • I’ve never really thought about this before, but yes – we do use dice a lot when rating stuff.

    For me it’s easier to interpret a dice (counting its ‘eyes’) than to count lit-up stars....

    Hein Haraldson Berg on Rating Stuff in Norway
  • Nice tip! Thanks for sharing this. Your suggestion helps me a lot.

    Stephani on Resizing rounded rectangles in Photoshop
  • @Samantha, I’m not aware of a “find/replace font” function. That essentially would be exactly what we need, which is a type styles feature/palette. It’s indeed unfortunate, and is one good...

    Peyton Crump on Photoshop Type Time Savers
  • Sorry,

    NOT

    CTRL + SHIFT + T

    but

    CTRL + SHIFT + Click

    ;)

    kaske on Photoshop Type Time Savers
  • Tony,

    I understand and agree that the back-end shouldn’t output code (html code), and only content. The templates (aka views) should do the trick, but instead of having lot’s of if/else...

    Joan Piedra on Simple jQuery Solution to Provide…
  • The clutter thing still doesn’t reach through to me, but I may just be spoiled with a great CMS with a great template system. There’s no PHP, RoR or Django (or whatever) clutter to think...

    Hein Haraldson Berg on Simple jQuery Solution to Provide…
  • @Joan: You’re right - the dynamically-added content provides no additional value to spiders or bots, but in this specific case the relevant content (e.g. “Appliances") is already present. ...

    Tony Pitale on Simple jQuery Solution to Provide…
  • Glad I could help (read: be a sounding board) in a small way = ) Email me again if you need anything else!

    Josh Chambers on How To Track Internal Links…
  • Thanks Josh, the issue I was experiencing with GA is now fixed.  After days of tests and trials, I found out that the source of my issue was the single quotes around the URL name...

    ultrasound on How To Track Internal Links…
  • Finally! This is great to hear, I know it won’t be perfect to start. But I have faith in the Big G to iron out all of the kinks. Flash is really becoming the mainstream for big budget...

    email templates on Google is Indexing Flash: Hooray…