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Google Authorship: Move rel=”author” on your head

July 22, 2014July 10, 2012 by NARGA Editorial

Since June 2012, Google is now allowing rel=author markup through a link element in the head of your site. This makes adding rel=author to your site properly a lot easier.

7 Essentials to Consider Before Starting A Blog

7 Essentials to Consider Before Starting Your New Blog

March 21, 2016July 5, 2012 by NARGA Editorial

Launching a new blog is great ideas but it’s too hard when you start building it. Some people start but they also quit pretty soon. People have thousands of reasons on how and why they cannot keep blogging. Some people start a blog as a hobby and some just to share some information. I have also seen people who start a blog, write one post and then forget about it. The problem is that lot of blogs die pretty soon. So why do blogs die? I started my blog back in 2002, it has died a few times and changed the main languages but I was able to get it back up and running. Why are a lot of people not able to have a successful blog? To me it’s a totally exciting experience and I can’t wait to get started.

Setting up a blog is a fairly easy thing to get started. However, there are so many resources available to you that it can be overwhelming. To avoid such things and making your niche blog, I have produced my list of things that you should do/have before starting a blog.

Complete guide show Author information in Google search results

April 7, 2016June 26, 2012 by NARGA Editorial

I guess you may have already noticed that Google is showing author information (author’s Google+ profile) in it’s search results. If you haven’t already noticed then check out the sample queries – Matt Cutts, Linus Torvalds or Selena Gomez and Narga.
“Google Authorship” is one way that Google is tweaking the search results in order to improve the searching experience. Google displays the picture of the author right in the search results in order to help users to find great content.

As you can see from the example above, author information helps make your page look more professional with an eye-catching profile photo, your author name, a link to your profile on Google, and a “more articles by so-and-so” link.
How to do your website appearing in Google search results like that? Let’s do it with me!

Google Buzz Tips: The Missing Manual

November 8, 2015September 1, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Do you know Google Buzz? Buzz seem to be divided between those who think it will topple Facebook and those who have already discounted it.
The launch wasn’t a storming success, but Google Buzzis a pretty nifty tool – especially when you start mucking around with it.
Google Buzz is a new way to publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. It has an option to see thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.
Here are some tips that help you use Google Buzz in new interesting ways.

10+ Considerations When Choosing VPS Hosting

January 15, 2022July 15, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

A Virtual private server, or VPS, may be the hosting solution you are looking for. If your website is experiencing immense growth, it may be better to host the site on a VPS. A shared hosting environment tends to be unstable and your growing site may be taking up too much resources. Having a VPS ensures that you are allocated a fixed amount of resources. You don’t have to worry about resource hogging. In addition, you can also make custom tweaks to your site that requires admin rights. You can’t do that in a shared hosting environment.

Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is a flexible, scalable, and economical hosting solution that can fit the needs of almost any kind of website. It’s a perfect solution for those who have outgrown their shared hosting plans but don’t really need to move to a dedicated server.
With so many hosting businesses out there how can you ensure you choose one of the more reputable ones? Here are a few pointers that should help steer you in the right direction:

Making Awesome Form’s Inline Labels with jQuery

September 11, 2016April 5, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Have you ever visit Apple’s MobileMe website? The login screen has form labels that are written within the value of their associated input field.

Inline labels are nothing new – in fact the easiest way to label a field is to simply set the field value up front and blow it away when the field gains focus. This is handy way for designers to save space and make their designs cleaner all-around. Unfortunately for us developers, simply setting the input value isn’t very semantic or usable then you can’t do it simple. I’ve just use a little jQuery to make it all happen.

Input vs Button – Which to use?

March 18, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

While working on form design, I encountered some issues when using images as submit buttons. The input with the type=”submit” is either too ugly (Firefox), a little buggy (Internet Explorer) or completely inflexible (Safari). The solution for most is to use image inputs and create the damn things ourselves.
View this example:

How to Open All External Links in a New Window/Tabs by using jquery

January 21, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Do you ever know the way to open an external link in a new windows or tabs is one of The Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 1999?

Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management).
Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user’s machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites.

I discovered right away is that the <a> tag does not allow the target attribute in XHTML Strict (nor does it in HTML Strict).

However, the behavior of <a target="_blank"'> can be replicated in XHTML Strict with semantic markup and scripting.

Google CDN: use AJAX Libraries API to Speed up your Ajax apps

May 31, 2017January 18, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

I don’t use a lot of JavaScript, but as you probably know, I’m a fan of offloading things to other people when it can save me the hassle of doing it myself.
A CDN — short for Content Delivery Network — distributes your static content across servers in various, diverse physical locations. When a user’s browser resolves the URL for these files, their download will automatically target the closest available server in the network.

BoxOver, display tooltips using DHTML/Javascritps

November 2, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

BoxOver DHTML/Javascript Lightweight Tooltips

BoxOver uses javascript / DHTML to show tooltips on a website. Implementation of the tooltips, however, requires no knowledge of DHTML or javascript. Move your mouse over the items below to see examples. BoxOver is free and distributed under the GNU license.

There are many tweaks which can be set to customise it to your needs by setting through a tag’s “title” attribute. Some of them are very useful.

Using WordPress plugins to make your website mobile friendly

July 29, 2017October 15, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

In some earlier post, you has been known how to convert your website mobile friendly with online services and common problems when creating a website for mobile devices.

WordPress is a very popular PHP based Open Source blogging tool. By installing mobilizer plugins, your wordpress blog becomes mobile friendly, and all your earlier blog postings become ready to mobile-accessible with a minimum effort on your part. Below is amazing Plugins to view your WordPress Blog on any Mobile Device (iPhone, PDA…).

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