Tag: Web Development
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Mobile is King
We love the mobile experience. Content at your fingertips, closer interaction with our computers and unprecedented ease of use. Over time our subconscious realizes that using mobile platforms is easier than opening our laptop’s web browser and we perform more and more tasks on our mobile devices. Compound this reality with the growth metrics of smartphone and tablet adoption all over the world and you’ll end up with an indisputable fact: Mobile is King. Mobile…
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Why Nginx?
Nginx is a lightweight, high performance web server designed to deliver large amounts of static content quickly with efficient use of system resources. Nginx’s strong point is its ability to efficiently serve static content, like plain HTML and media files. Some consider it a less than ideal server for dynamic content. – Linode.com If you’re using Apache, you’re missing out. Nginx is a small, lesser known Russian Web Server that is taking the world by…
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How to Win – Part 2
Winning is a polymathic endeavor in that, to win you need to excel at multiple areas. You need to be the better speaker, the better coder and/or the better salesman. Question is, how can you excel at multiple things simultaneously? I’ll try to illustrate my approach to this problem of personal development with some key examples. Web Development Wins When building Alsuper.com.do we had to create the best possible online catalog and provide low cost…
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How to Win
Focus on the prize. Focus on the goal. Never on your opponents. Then go to work, hard and fast and smart. Winning is an art in itself, to become a winner you need a different mindset. It all starts with your preparation. Drop the nukes, then fight the ashes Step 1. You must prepare heavily to win. That might include waking up at 4:00 am every day for a couple of years to understand the…
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10 Fresh Strategies to Increase Your Traffic
A critical mass of users is built by producing adequate tools and content. High traffic requires at first a solid infrastructure with adequate support and then a clear design which offers an ideal UI/UX for visitors. When visitors find the content they need in your platform, at a consistent basis, and they can consume such content in an enjoyable fashion, they come back for more. After coming back a few times, they start referring you.…
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Make Your Site Load in Less Than a Second
Speed is more than a number. It’s a statement. Making your site fast tells your readers that you care about their time. It tells search engines that your infrastructure is working well and it makes everything easier and smoother. You can do a lot of things to make your sites faster. Here are some general tips that are easy to implement can be implemented in a day or two: Deploy a CDN Cloudflare is free…
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The WebAwards 2015 Are Here
This is to invite you to nominate your best work for the Web Award 2015. I’ll be judging at the WebAwards 2015 along a team of a select group of industry leaders that volunteer their valuable time, energy and expertise to help raise the standard of excellence of web development on the Internet (WebAward 2015 Judges). The Web Marketing Association acknowledges our contributions and dedication by making the WebAward Competition the premier annual contest for…