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Simple jQuery Drop Down Menu

On April 2, 2012, in JavaScript, jQuery, by Gilberto Cortez
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There are many jQuery sliders created already. This is the one that I developed from scratch which only has the minimum needed features to work very light and efficiently on any type of web development project. You will need to have the original jQuery script attached to your page before adding this code and make [...]

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Going Black Against SOPA / PIPA

On January 18, 2012, in Cloud News, by Gilberto Cortez
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I will be going black on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Along with other sites, my complete website / blog will be temporarily shut down with a 503 HTTP Status code to let the search engines know that the site will be back. I will [...]

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Simple jQuery Slider

On January 18, 2012, in JavaScript, jQuery, by Gilberto Cortez
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There are many jQuery sliders in the internet but many of them are really hard to understand. This slider is very basic and very easy to change to your specs. Just change the fade effect to the one of your preference and you are set. You can find more information about the different functions at the [...]

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Lesson 4: Internal and External Linking

On April 26, 2011, in Search Engine Optimization, by Gilberto Cortez
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This is the fourth part of a series of lessons. On this lesson I will be explaining you the methods to do internal and external link campaigns. Linking is probably the most important factor at this time on ranking for a specified term. There is internal linking which refers to the linking within your domain. [...]

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Lesson 3: On Page Optimization for SEO

On April 19, 2011, in Search Engine Optimization, by Gilberto Cortez
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This is the third part of a series of search engine optimization lessons. On this lesson I will be explaining you the methods to do the actual on page optimization. You will take what you have learned from past lessons and use it to create the proper tags for your pages. When Google analyses your [...]

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Lesson 2: “Pre-Production Process” – Market and Keyword Analysis

On April 11, 2011, in Search Engine Optimization, by Gilberto Cortez
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This is the second part of a series of search engine optimization lessons. On this lesson I will start to explain you what I call the “Pre-Production” process of your campaign. At the start of each campaign one must do a market and keyword analysis research. Market Research is when one researches and evaluates the [...]

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Lesson 1: Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

On April 5, 2011, in Search Engine Optimization, by Gilberto Cortez
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SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing a web page or portal for search engines.  People are now spending 7 times more time on the Internet than on watching TV, what does this tell us as marketers. It tells us that we need to focus into online marketing, in which SEO is [...]

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Shell or SSH Commands and Beginner 101 Course

On October 3, 2010, in Linux, SHH, by Gilberto Cortez
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Using Shell or SSH connection to interact with your Linux server could be the most powerful tool you can have. This is because when you connect via this interface you are actually working from inside your server and this gives you more power and control over whatever you are doing. To start off you need [...]

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MySQL Database Interaction PHP Class

On August 14, 2010, in MySQL, PHP, by Gilberto Cortez
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There are many ways out there to connect to a database, but there is only a few of them that are effective. This is the MySQL object that I use to connect to a database via PHP. You will find this class to be simple but very effective as it’s not overfilled, but it only [...]

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Display your last Tweet from Twitter.com

On August 14, 2010, in PHP, by Gilberto Cortez
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Are you a big Twitter user, and would like to integrate your account into your site? Here is the code to display your last Tweet using the .xml file that is provided by Twitter. There is only one thing that needs to be changed out. which is the XML file address, you need to input [...]

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