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Pure CSS Fish Eye Menu

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:28:12 +0000

A pure CSS technique to transform your icon menu into an interactive zooming icon navigation menu inspired from Mac OSX Dock with fish eye effect. One of many ways to style html list tags into interactive, usable, and accessible menu using pure CSS.

Virtuemart Product Slideshow 1.015 Released

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Pleased to announce the release of Virtuemart Product Slideshow version 1.015. This fixes issues with encoded ampersands in url and contains minor changes to improve usability. It is recommended to update your slideshow especially on sites with non-SEF URLs.

16 Very Useful Smarty Scripting Tips and Techniques to Make Templates Smarter

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0000

A compilation of useful Smarty template scripting tips and techniques to help build smarter dynamic templates for PHP programmers and template designers. Great practical resource for people who are learning to script Smarty templates. Saves valuable time on research.

How to Boost Alexa Rank in 2 Steps

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:53:37 +0000

Here are 2 simple steps to improve your Alexa Rank the ethical way by using tried and tested white hat techniques that would also effectively increase your web site traffic, popularity and earning potentials.

Adding Alexa Widgets Effectively

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:31:03 +0000

Never thought that these free traffic rank badges would help improve Alexa Rank on top of other great benefits it provides. But beware of the consequences when not placed well on your pages.

Firefox 3.0.6 AutoComplete Bug

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:32:55 +0000

Firefox 3.0.6 has been released but autocomplete bug still lives. Get rid of the bug when working on your JavaScript project.

5 Solutions to Url Encoded Slashes (%2F) Problem in Apache

virgil@jampmark.com (Virgil) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:42:37 +0000

Script generated url structure based on actual data coming from external sources such as user input and rss feed, may result in a "404 (Not Found)" error in Apache especially when it contains url encoded slashes. Here’s why...

Using Alexa Site Widgets To Improve Traffic Ranking

virgil@jampmark.com (virgil) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:42:51 +0000

More recent observations indicate that placing an Alexa site widget on a web site can improve the site's traffic ranking. Here are some of the reports.

How to Start a Blog Quickly

virgil@jampmark.com (Administrator) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:57:51 +0000

Start a blog without spending money or learning webmaster skills. All it takes is a few minutes of your time and the passion of sharing your thoughts.

Pure HTML+CSS Slideshow

virgil@jampmark.com (virgil) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:07:23 +0000

Learn to create elegant cross browser slideshows with clickable images, captions and links using pure HTML and CSS codes.