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About Chris

Christopher Burns has been in the web design, web development, SEO, and social marketing game for many years. He is an avid social marketer. He writes for Search Engine Optimization X, Owns Car Dealer Website Design firm BURN SEO, LLC and is co-founder of the SEO News Community SERPd.

Who Will Win, Flash or HTML 5?

html5 vs flashThe iPad and more specifically Steve Jobs has created a bitter competition between Flash an HTML 5. So what is all the fuss about? Is HTML 5 really going to make Flash obsolete in the coming years? To be honest. This wouldn’t even be a question if it weren’t for Steve Jobs and his star power.

At this point in time Flash is no where near becoming obsolete, and HTML 5 and flash should be used together. Both technologies are great and both for different reasons.

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Why Use Premium WordPress Themes (And Why Not)

premium wordpress themesIf you are in the process of starting up a website or blog you have no doubt heard of WordPress. This open source application allows you to manage your site or blog’s content easily and with little background knowledge of the web. Though known predominately for its blogging applications, WordPress is a powerful Content Management System (CMS).

WordPress is used by everyone from the blogging startup to nationally known news agencies and companies. If you are wondering if WordPress and its Premium Themes are right for your website, consider the following four points.

User Accessibility

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Why to use & examples of great minimalistic design

Minimalist Website Design

Minimalist Website Design

Minimalist web design is the crux of creating a large-scale consumer product that millions of people respond to because of its intuitive user interface and accessibility. Having a website that is easy to understand often involves eliminating all the details that make it confusing or cluttered. Having more than one thing to do on any one page can make the website confusing. Minimalist web design is practiced by all three major tech companies, and it is one of the significant features that make the brands so lovable. Brands like Microsoft don’t have as much love coming to them on the brand index of consumer love and appreciation. There is actually a brand index that rates how much consumers love companies. The companies that consistently get rated highest are the ones that have minimalism as a part of their web design.

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Microsoft Project: What You Need To Know

Microsoft Project, also known as MSP, was primarily made to help project managers however it can help a wide array of people in their personal lives, too. For business use, it can be applied to handle budgets, organize and analyze work, assign resources to tasks and keep track of their progress.

In order to be a great project manager you must complete projects on time, all the while keeping within budget constraints and ultimately turning out a product or service your clients will be are happy with. Microsoft Project can help with all of this, and is particularly useful if you are in charge of a complex project and need help organizing all your work at the planning level and connect with other workers, making sure everyone is on the same page before anything is carried out.

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So You’re Curious About Cloud Hosting?

Would you know the difference between cloud hosting and ‘true’ cloud hosting? Many people would struggle to give a definitive answer and this allows some hosting providers to offer cloud hosting services that are not really cloud at all. Isn’t all cloud hosting the same? The answer is a definite ‘No’.

Cloud Hosting: The Freedom to Choose

For many years, website owners have been forced to choose between expensive VPS and dedicated hosting options when they required hosting packages with more resources. These packages often included unnecessary resource allocation, which the user did not require but was forced to select, in order to get the actual resource they needed.

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The Pros and Cons (Mostly Pros ) of 7 Top Social Media CMS’s

Content Management Systems (CMS’s) definitely have great value for those hoping to manage their social media adventures. The reasons for this are varied but you could say they all come down to the very basic notion that CMS functions make it a lot easier to add and modify content on a social media site. Really, you do not want visitors to a social media site to find it disorganized, static, boring, or dull. If this is the case then the visitors will not hang around and your social media site will be all media and nothing social. That means it will flop.

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Top Three Characteristics of Successful Product Pages

What is it that makes your ecommerce site a success? You’ve got them to the product page, they want to buy stuff, they browse around and then … nothing. They click away. What are you doing wrong? This article will look at the three most important features of successful product pages.

(1) Make Sure the Entire Page is Optimized Correctly.

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Icon Generators For Web Developers

Colors, lines, texts, fonts, markup and others – these are just a little part of web and application design elements that we confront with during development. The 21st century is the age of technology which assists us to do everything much better, much faster and much much more simple. Fortunately, as times goes by the “best” jumps over the “better”, and the “perfect” slams the “best” to the ground. The projects we are presenting you have gone far ahead of the stuff you had world wide web had offered before. Presenting you the brand new child from preloaders.net developers, that has finally left the beta version far behind – iconizer.net.

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Facebook Open Graph Protocol Full Integration Walkthrough

Facebook Social PluginsAs Facebook becomes an ever increasing influence on the internet and it’s users, webmasters all around the world in every market are trying to find ways to better connect with Facebook users on their sites. Facebook has come a long way in a short time, and is now at a point where a very deep integration with Facebook is available to webmasters through the Facebook Open Graph Protocol. With a full Facebook integration you will enhance your Facebook marketing effectiveness.

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Integrate WordPress into Any Website Using TwentyTen 2011

wordpress integration video tutorialEveryone knows that WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform on the planet right now. We are big fans of WordPress and we do lots of custom WordPress website designs regularly, but we love to contribute to the community so we’ve updated our WordPress integration video tutorial for 2011!

Last year at this time we recorded our first WordPress integration video tutorial that showed how to integrate WordPress into any existing website. With the recent updates from WordPress many things have changed, including the default theme. The new default theme for WordPress is now TwentyTen instead of default. In addition their code has been streamlined.

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