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Weekend Reads for the Web Developer - Oct 12

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:11:05 GMT

Like every proficient software developer, keeping up on industry trends and news is vital no matter how many years of experience you may have. We are contstantly bookmarking and sharing good reads here at Sevenforty and I thought this would present a good opportunity for a new blog series by sharing a selection of a few interesting articles I'm personally reading.

5 Online Web Development and Design Tools You Need to Bookmark

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:01:52 GMT

Like most developers, I keep an extensive list of bookmarks with links to various online tools, documentation and other miscellaneous development resources. I thought I would share a few web-based tools that I utilize quite often when I am doing front-end development.

Web Performance, Conversions and the Bottom Line at Lonely Planet

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:35:29 GMT

The Lonely Planet developer blog has an interesting tale of web performance and its affects on conversions. Or in other words, how a slow web site hurts the bottom line.

Email Validation with PHP

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:30:53 GMT

In the past, efficient email validation in PHP was a bit of technical challenge that required the use of pattern matching through regular expressions. This task was often complicated for those without a solid grasp of regular expressions and required constant hits to heavy functions such as preg_match().

Just Launched: Small Business Services in DC

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:56:10 GMT

Google plans to penalize over-optimized Websites

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:04:25 GMT

Recently at the SXSW conference, Matt Cutts (Google's head of web spam) made the announcement that they will begin rolling out new updates to handle over-optmized sites created by SEO abusers in order to level the playing field for those sites that follow the rules. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of detail has emerged yet on what this will entail, but I'm going to assume that most of us tech folk aren't necessarily surprised by this.

4 Tips to Keep Your Website "Happening" and Noticed

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:39:26 GMT

Numbers, data, statistics, trends - the technology sector is experiencing so much change lately that it is sometimes hard to make heads or tails of it. Should you target email promotions to your customers or should you put your resources to other worthwhile efforts like Twitter?

On the Merits of Blogging

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:13:33 GMT

Dave Winer has a great post over on Wired's Web Monkey blog regarding the evolution of blogging. I found this particularly astute.

Return on Investment (ROI) for your Website

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:12:17 GMT

When you are a business or organization requiring profits or services to be collected, delivered, or computed through a web presence, then you must come to terms with how to get the most return on your website investment. Having a cousin chop-shop together a web site is most likely no longer a wise choice. Hiring a designer with eye catching online web imagery may seem a great idea initially, but that should not be your only criteria for a web developer. Hiring an SEO shop that claims to be able to churn millions back in revenue for you if you follow their advice at some point starts sounding like a snake-oil sales pitch.

VIDEO: Google Explains Canonical Source Factors

www.sevenforty.com/blog — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:39:57 GMT

A few months back I wrote a piece called Beating the Content Scrapers and Web Rippers which looked at various methods for getting your content indexed before the scrapers had time to vacuum up your work.