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Facebook has long ended in being just a social networking website and nobody could have predicted that it will be used as a powerful marketing tool. The fact that boosted the evolution of this socializing platform into such a powerful instrument is that nowadays it is available on any device that has a basic modern browser. The website has been improved in looks, behavior and performance even for tablet use and so the business segment of the market has not been forgotten. What Facebook preaches to the world is the concept of free thought, feeling and likes sharing, as well as a constant improving platform of photo, image, music and video sharing even if it uses the Youtube technology.

As you try to create a WordPress plugin you will most surely need to store all sorts of data in the main WordPress database. Many will regard this as a hard thing to do and a very complicated process but if you flip the cover open there are only two types of data that this process might require and those are Setup information and actual Data.

Web page design is full of surprises all the time as search engines provide brand new engine optimization features all the time. In such a dynamic field of work, web designers face more and more challenges with each addition brought by search engines. From many SEO choices available, structured data has the highest rank because the search engines use structured data in creating the already accustomed ‘rich snippets’ when a search is initiated.

Because we needed a slider that would work on both mobile and normal browsers we made the mbeMobileSlider. It works really well on Webkit Browsers (Safari, Chrome, iOs Safari etc) but not just on them.

Check it out at http://mbe.ro/wp-content/uploads/mbe_slider_v1.0.0/ and the Google Code Page (to download the plugin).

What CakePHP offers is functionality. This is the main reason why developers use it, but the simple capability of creating web sites quicker than the regular solutions mean that optimization and loading times of the web site will suffer unless while expanding the developer skills you don’t keep up the trend and learn many techniques to optimize the web site whether you want more quality or more performance out of it.

The main objectives of this article are to learn about techniques to speed up load time, optimize the queries but also speed up cache query results.

What many web developers that use CSS know is basically to literally develop websites but what many don’t know is that there are many tricks and tweaks to make a website behave exactly as you want.

Such a trick is the one that allows you to change the selection color when you select text or desired content.

Usually, what the browser color default is that you will use but maybe you don’t want that. But what if you want to make your selection yellow or pink or any other color you might think of?

What web developers have adopted without too much trouble was the redefining of tags with the HTML5 standard. What HTML5 brought consisted in many changes and many tags that were not even considered in earlier HTML, CSS or even Javascript. Even if many professionals and tutorials tend to put accent on the novelties that the HTML5 brought, what nobody will tell you is the fact that many often used tags were redesigned and so, in order to be able to access the power behind HTML5, you must first see what these changes are.

What does any entrepreneur want from his marketing strategy? The answer is simple: to sell the product in real time, with the least effort possible and the largest amount of profit.

How can any entrepreneur do that? That question has yet another simple answer which underneath the simple shell hides a very complex and powerful strategy: online marketing.

Online marketing offers a great deal of options in terms of distributing the promotional advertising that an entrepreneur may want and need and also has many downright benefits compared to offline marketing strategies such as ads in newsletters, promotional videos on television broadcasting or flyers that make most people angry due to the fact that common sense obliges anyone to accept a gift from a smiling person only to throw it away in the next second just by looking at a wrong chosen title or introduction.

A big problem we always have when we create a complex website is organizing the CSS properly. We add comments, we split it into files but the stylesheets still get pretty big if the project is very complex. Not only that but there are also a lot of browser specific CSS properties (such as -moz-border-radius) which make changing something (like the border-radius) very difficult.

Well, there is something out there that can help us organize better and it is called LESS.

According to an article on Wikipedia today is Programmers Day.

Programmers’ Day is an international unofficial professional holiday that is also officially recognized in Russia, celebrated on the 256th (0x100th) day of each year

Happy Programmers Day to us and to every programmer out there!