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A guide for the modern web for small businesses
The online world, it is a changing. Google updates their search engine all the time and what worked before may not only not work anymore, but it may be hurting you. Also, SEO is a long game. Old tricks may provide bumps in traffic here and there but a clean implementation will provide steadier gains […]
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Integrating Google Web Fonts
.post-434 { font-family: ‘Jura’; } Historically, web designers have been limited to the fonts they can use in live text. Enter Google Web fonts. This will allow you to integrate any website. I have used the Google Web Fonts API to integrate the Jura font for this post by adding the following to my HTML: […]
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Google Finance Web Service Fail
A couple weeks ago, I was checking out Google Finance and noticed something scary. One of two things had just occurred; either the whole world just went broke or (slightly more likely) the web service call to retrieve the data had failed or timeout. While the scenario was quickly fixed by refreshing the page, these are […]
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Motion Capture, Kinect, and You
UPDATE 2: June 16, 2011 The Kinect SDK (beta) has been released on June 16, 2011. Download it here. UPDATE: April 15, 2011 Scott Guthrie announced the SDK in his keynote speech at MIX 2011. Additionally, each attendee was also given a Kinect to start building new software with it. For their annual April fools joke, […]
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Custom Event Tracking with Google Analytics
I have been researching a method for tracking clicks to external sites from my site. Google Analytics’s custom event tracking is a nice solution. Here is a link for the asynchronous event tracking scripts for Google Analytics: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html#Anatomy. Keep in mind that to work with this code, you need the 3rd generation of Google Analytics scripts […]