Jun 20
2013

You definitely know Mighty Deals, probably even better than we do here at Noupe, don’t you? Personally I keep getting surprised over and over seeing what these guys are able to come up with. If you are a web developer and don’t use Mighty Deals to curb expenses, you’re either rich or not in your right mind. I assume most of our readers are neither rich nor deranged. So don’t get too upset if this is actually the first time someone tells you about Mighty Deals. You know, it’s never too late. Fate has it that we are able to offer a mightier than mighty deal today. Get going with this 82% discount on a fabulous font family…
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Jun 19
2013

Today, a large portion of site traffic comes from mobile devices — namely smart phones and tablets — in addition to traditional PCs. Across the globe, mobile devices now account for 12 percent of Internet traffic, and it’s scaling up faster than desktop Internet traffic. The fraction of mobile Web traffic is sufficiently higher in nations with high smartphone penetration (for example, 20 percent of US-based Web traffic is via mobile browsing). What’s more, this figure is expected to grow significantly over the next 10 years, as smartphones evolve and mature in terms of hardware and software and adoption picks up in South America, Asia and Africa.
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Jun 18
2013

Google’s Penguin called it quits for some SEOs. Over-optimized websites with unnatural link structures and keyword stuffing got punished. New strategies had to be developed. Content marketing became the next big thing – a strategy I would have thought that was patently obvious. High-grade content, be it articles, videos, podcasts or infographics, proves to be the solution. Content like this needs no unnatural link support, instead builds backlinks automatically – because of the quality of it.
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Jun 17
2013

If you have been following the previous CMS instalments here at Noupe, you must already be aware that every once in a while, we review a Content Management System. Today, we shall be taking a look at ProcessWire, a very straightforward and nifty open source CMS.
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Jun 16
2013

Icons based on PNG, GIF or JPG are nothing new. Relatively new is the way to store all icons in one single PNG and access them via CSS, the so-called sprites. Even more interesting is the complete omission of file-based structures using nothing but pure CSS. CIKONSS does just that. And as these symbols are based on CSS2, even Internet Explorer 8 supports them.
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Jun 14
2013

Dribbble is great, but that filled with contributions, you simply cannot stay on top of things. Many members make their designs and other resources available for free downloading, while most members don’t. Dribble in itself does not offer simple access to the many download resources the platform contains. So, if you are one of the seekers looking for ready-made designs or UI components, you will need to rely on third parties. Fortunately there are a few. Making use of the Dribbble API, Freebbble is one of these little helpers.
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