This is completely wrong, but it doesn't really matter

Finally, a computer for your mom's living room? Which magically turns to an iPad?
Price not set yet. If you really want to know more, click here http://bit.ly/xxa2h3
And yes, there is also an iPhone version....

On a more serious note: this started as a #Kickstarter project, where 37 people funded the product with an average of $159 each. Which goes to show, there IS a market for you out there, you just have to find the the right way to reach the proper people, no matter how #crazy or "crazy" your idea is ;)

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How to Design User Flow

Getting visitors to your site is one thing. But once they are there, you need to provide an exciting/useful/engaging/you-name-it experience if you are going to have results.

The good folks at conversionXL.com have a very thorough post on how to guide your visitors to the desired action (whatever that may be: sale, quote form, support information, etc). The article include actual examples on getting started with the described concepts.

Check the full thing at http://bit.ly/A5BbnO

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Tracking your visitors' location with PHP

If you are in a situation that you need to show different content to your visitors depending on their location, an easy way to do it is with #PHP using MaxMind's IP database. MaxMind is offering commercial database of locations for IP addresses, but they also have a free product GeoLite Country http://bit.ly/yoPj7C

It is a downloadable data file (MaxMind provides monthly updates) that you can query through PHP or other languages or even an Apache module (MaxMind offers libraries http://bit.ly/yMsTP8 for several languages). If you don't like the idea of downloading a file every month there are other alternatives like GeoPlugin.com and IpInfoDB.com but I opted to skip the part of making network requests to a third-party server.

I've cooked up an example of querying the the data file and keeping the information on a cookie so that the total number of queries is smaller. Check it out here http://bit.ly/wBm7bm

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12 Steps to organic keywords optimization

+George Aspland at +Search Engine Land has posted a comprehensive guide on improving your search engine ranking through careful curation of your content and code. His 12 steps:
1. Choose The Keywords To Focus On
2. Prioritize Your Keywords
3. Check That Important Content On The Page Is Getting Indexed
4. Ensure The Indexed Text Is Unique
5. Try To Improve The Search Listings For The Keywords
6. Update Or Add A Headline
7. Optimize Existing Text
8. Look For Text In Images
9. Possibly Add New Content On The Page
10. Develop Alt Tags for the Image Links
11. Update The HTML Page Title & Meta Description Tag
12. Increase Internal / External Links & Social Engagement

Full article here http://selnd.com/zXRr4k

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Weekend WordPress reading

Just got this! http://t.co/GdRVvuWu Digging into WordPress +Chris Coyier and +Jeff Starr is 400 pages of WordPress knowledge. Just updated to cover WP 3.3 (and with a promise of free future updates forever!) this looks really good. Hopefully, I'll repost soon with a review of the book :)

Edit: just discovered the "All AJAX" theme included with the book. I always wondered if someone had done something like that. /installs now :)

Check out a free PDF sample and the full contents here http://bit.ly/xJsLHJ

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Don't forget

For your #WebDevelopment checklist: Always remember to buy that stock photo you are using on your front page before going live :)

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Login log for your WordPress

Here is a companion #WordPress #plugin for the Limit Login Attempts one I posted about before ( http://bit.ly/z3q1gM ): Simple Login Log does exactly that. It keeps a log of all successful or not attempts to login on your site. You'll be surprised at the number of attempts (I certainly was when I found I had 600 attempts from bots in 3 days :))

Simple Login Log can be found at WordPress.org http://bit.ly/xeA67f

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