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If you are working on web graphics within Illustrator, you will probably want your shapes to snap to a grid, similar to how they are typically prepared in Photoshop or Fireworks. However, when working with vector shapes, a pixel isn't really the smallest unit of measurement, such as working with...

The ability to embed custom fonts into your web pages has been around for years now, though not widely supported and there were also issues with the licensing of the actual fonts themselves - not all fonts allowed you to share them over the web on pages publicly like that. Google Web Fonts has...

I think it's most basic packages, which are comparable to what we are currently paying for from the major cable providers, are free. They only charge if you go with the much higher speeds.

There are a bunch of plugins for Wordpress which can easily do this for you. It's a good practice to have one, especially if there are some issues with your sites navigation causing some pages to otherwise be inaccessible.

It's an important metric to look at, because if your bounce rate is too high it can result in penalties from Google, both in your organic rankings as well as your paid search landing pages. Google looks at the click through rate of your search engine listings, but they also look at how long the...

Market Samurai is essentially pulling data in from Google's free keyword tool. It's a great program on it's own for competition analysis, but for actual keyword phrase discovery, it's much faster to just do that in Google's tool. Plus Google has the lions share of search traffic.

You should also keep in mind that that the bots aren't always transparent, and some times certain analytics packages you are using might mistake them for real visitors, which will throw off your metrics and conversion rates.

That's not a realistic time frame to gain first page rankings in the search engines. If you are doing this for someone else's web site and they gave you the one month time frame, you need to level set with them on a more realistic time frame. At best it would take at least a few months, and that...

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to ask. Are you asking how many times you should use a targeted keyword(s) in a single blog post? I wouldn't use it more than two or three times personally, otherwise it will come across as pretty spammy. You should also try and use other non-keyword...

I would at the very least learn HTML and CSS. Even if you later start using shortcuts to get your projects done, such as templates or HTML/CSS generators, it still will save you a lot of time and money when making basic edits. For programming beyond that, such as in Javascript or PHP, I would...

I've been hearing a lot of buzz about both of these being used as starting points with folks web design projects. While I generally get the gist of what they offer, personally I have yet to use either on any of my projects. The only thing I will sometimes use is the Eric Meyer CSS Reset, to...

This is a useful tool for creating CSS3 code to style your pages. Create CSS3 - Easy CSS3 Generator For vectors and brushes to use in Photoshop, I would check out Vecteezy or it's sister site Brusheezy. Also, sites like Smashing Magazine offer a lot of freebies on a regular basis.

For logo design, I would suggest checking out 99Designs.com or GraphicRiver.net. If you do a search for either, you will also find a bunch of similar services. For SEO, this can vary widely depending on your budget. You can start off with anything from Software to help you do this, or entry...

CSS3P CSS3Ps - free cloud based photoshop plugin that converts layers to CSS3 styles. CSS Hat CSS Hat Just wanted to share these two Photoshop plugins. CSS3P is free and cloud hosted, while CSS Hat is a commercial plugin that works entirely within Photoshop. Both of them are very useful for...

Here is a pretty thorough list: 11 Top CSS Editors – Reviewed Outside of Dreamweaver, the only other one I've personally found useful would be TopStyle, particularly with it's color management options. It will show a list of all the different colors declared in your CSS file so you can easily...

It's important to note that these rounded edges won't work in older versions of Internet Explorer, I believe like versions 8 and prior. So keep that in mind and try not to make your layout dependent on the rounded corners. In other words it should still look good with straight corners...

I know it would seem snobbish to block the posts from someone typing in very poor english, but if it's disruptive to the forum as a whole I would likely do it. It can become a bigger distraction to conversations if users are constantly having to explain that they don't understand what the poster...

I would try and network with people who know the industry very well and can speak to the topic of my site with authority and commission them to write a series of articles for it. You can tell when someone just hired a general "writer" to churn out content for a site, as it is often very generic...

The free themes are limited in terms of quality. You can spend hours if not days searching through the glut of them to find one that is useable for your site. I think they are generally meant to be neutral in most cases, but sometimes theme developers will give them a more specific look and feel...

BBPress is the official forum script meant to work with Wordpress. It integrates the same user database that controls the logins to your Wordpress blog. So in other words, if people registered an account on your blog to post in the comments section - they can just jump right into to the forums...