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How to Ajaxify Your WordPress Site

ProBlogger

Injecting a dose of Ajax into your WordPress-powered site is an excellent way to enhance functionality and streamline the user experience. Without touching a line of code, you can harness the power of Ajax to boost performance, improve usability, and fill your site with win. Ajax enables your web pages to respond very quickly and smoothly to user input by loading only snippets of data instead of the entire page. WordPress + Ajax = Awesome. Ajax For All [ Demo ].

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Facebook Tip: Changing From Mobile To Desktop View On Your iPad Or Tablet

SocMed Sean

And to be honest, it takes a small miracle to even see the footer navigation on Facebook because the minute you scroll below the fold, Facebook makes an AJAX call to add more posts to your timeline (because it thinks you’re browsing back in time) and it loads more posts. I can’t live without my tablet. First, I had an iPad and then eventually switched to an ASUS Transformer as my primary gadget.

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Zoho CRM: A Strong Alternative to Salesforce

Idaconcpts

Here is a testimonial from Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of online marketing company Ajax Union. I was crowdsourcing for an alternative to Salesforce for a client relationship management (CRM) platform and I stumbled into these tweets: We just migrated our CRM system from salesforce.com to zoho CRM. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600. Cost for zoho is $300. Craig Donnelly (@craigdonnelly) May 13, 2010. Zoho CRM adds the ability to manage your email from within the application.

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Web Design Or Development: What’s the Difference?

Small Business Mavericks

Small business owners often confuse website design with website development. While they are similar, they are completely different tasks. Here’s a little discussion on how they are different. What Web Designers Do. Web designers are the beauticians of the Web. Their job is to make websites look beautiful. This requires a certain set of skills in both graphics and coding. Skills a web designer should learn to master include: HTML: Every website designer should learn HTML.

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Blog Design for ROI Rule #5: Engage Readers On Archive Pages—Fast!

ProBlogger

Use AJAX to load posts or further archive pages in the same category (e.g. For those who don’t know, AJAX is a programming technology that lets you load additional content on the page you’re viewing, without requiring a new page load. AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. The excerpt aspect limits scrolling for people who don’t want to read the first posts, while leaving less to load via AJAX for those who do chose to read them.

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

iGoogle is an Ajax-based personal web portal. The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging. Say that three times fast! You may be asking yourself, “How does he stay current with all of those blogs?” Enter iGoogle…. What is iGoogle?

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8 Open Source Projects from Google

Idaconcpts

If you need a high-performance AJAX web application that works in browsers without a lot of tweaking, GWT might be right for you. For many Google has become the patron saint of open source, and the number of open source projects Google supports or directly develops seems to increase every day.

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Anyone with a New Idea is a Crank Until the Idea Succeeds

Webbiquity SMM

Image credit: Ajax Union. I was reminded of that famous quote from Mark Twain recently in a Twitter exchange about the web presence optimization framework. Although the framework has been for the most part enthusiastically embraced (and dozens of people have downloaded the framework white paper ), a few people on Twitter questioned the need for a “new” marketing concept.

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

iGoogle is an Ajax-based personal web portal. The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging. Say that three times fast! You may be asking yourself, “How does he stay current with all of those blogs?” Enter iGoogle…. What is iGoogle?

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What Do They Mean by Social Any Way?

Socialized

s foundational technologies, AJAX, asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Many of us take for granted the meaning of the word “social” when we think of social media and social networking. But what does it really mean? The term carries multiple meanings. For the techie, social software is most likely built using Web 2.0’s And while this definition might impress your friends or help you in a game of Internet trivia, it isn’t very helpful in determining the socialness (sociability?)

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My 9 Favorite Wordpress Social Media Plugins | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

The WP Greet Box plugin uses Ajax to automatically identify how your users found your blog articles, and displays the appropriate referrer message at the top welcoming them and suggesting they share accordingly.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Now that Google indexes AJAX and JavaScript , there are lots of options to creating a navigation menu where you can implement an effective content hierarchy. This is a guest post by Harrison Jones. Onsite optimization of websites is the most important factor in ranking better in search engine results. You can build all the links you want, but if your website isn’t optimized, Googlebot won’t be able to crawl the site properly.

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The Highest Converting Facebook Page I’ve Ever Seen

Viper Chill

Right now there doesn’t seem to be a way to use just someone’s first name, unless you get involved in some Ajax trickery which makes your Fan page act like an app. Now and then I’ll have an idea which I just know is going to be a success. Sometimes though, I’m just plain wrong.

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15 Uncommon WordPress Plugins To Enhance Your Blog’s User Experience

Kikolani

It’s also done via ajax in the background so your user experience is not affected in any way. It’s no secret that user experience is important. As users land on your website, you have a split second to capture their attention. If you fail, they may leave and never return. Therefore, it’s important to provide an engaging user experience to your visitors. Specifically, your website and content need to be: Easy to understand. Easy to learn. Engaging. Efficient. Error free. Effective.

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Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content for Social Media.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community.

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My Dear Consultant - Think About It !

The Marketing Blog

I should ‘Ajaxify’ my current website - Ajax reduce overall loading time for the readers – This is not a trend, it is a must. Home About In the Media Applying the Johari Window to a s/w Product Recruiting Lessons from Google August 5, 2008.5:36 36 am My Dear Consultant – Think About It ! Jump to Comments Imagine the story of a confused guy from an enterprise. Some-one who isn’t a typical unaware customer anymore.

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The web articles directory – for submission and use of their articles!

Social Media Network Marketing

This is one place on the net that really has good content. This premium site is an educational resource and article submission service. They provide you with good quality, comprehensive articles and tutorials which are designed for information purpose. They cater to a vast array of categories and topics. Whether it is Microsoft Office , MAC related articles or Customer service information.

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Awesome WordPress Plugins to Empower Your Visitors

ProBlogger

WordSpew is great because it uses Ajax to refresh everything automatically, keeping the chat window flowing in real time. Pierre’s Wordspew works without AJax, but it also uses a Flash.flv file that prevents it from working on devices like the iPad and iPhone. This guest post is by Jeff Starr, co-author of the book Digging into WordPress. Helping your visitors get the most out of your site benefits everyone.

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Blogging Between Hot Flashes

Almost Savvy

Suddenly, I’m inundated with new terminology: ftp, html coding, ajax, api keys and plugins.

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Blogging Between Hot Flashes

Almost Savvy

Suddenly, I’m inundated with new terminology: ftp, html coding, ajax, api keys and plugins.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS StumbleUpon Favorites StumbleUpon has become my primary bookmarking tool. Besides being addicted to the constant exposure to new sites by just clicking a button on my toolbar, I have the ability to tag and share all of the sites I find. Since the last post got so much attention, I thought I would continue the process and share my latest favorites. If you use StumbleUpon add me as a friend.

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What is Work Literacy?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ajax. (3). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Falkayns Nest. This is my personal blog - stuff not directly connected to my businesses goes here - some of its a little spicy, so watch out for heartburn. Of course if youre lucky youll find something valuable in the mix of agile software, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, eLearning, technology, politics and marketing that I write about. Thursday, June 05, 2008. What is Work Literacy?

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15 Uncommon WordPress Plugins To Enhance Your Blog’s User Experience

Kikolani

It’s also done via ajax in the background so your user experience is not affected in any way. It’s no secret that user experience is important. As users land on your website, you have a split second to capture their attention. If you fail, they may leave and never return. Therefore, it’s important to provide an engaging user experience to your visitors. Specifically, your website and content need to be: Easy to understand. Easy to learn. Engaging. Efficient. Error free. Effective.

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How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire

Viper Chill

There’s no obvious search function and you have to wait for some Ajax-spinning wheel every time you click on a category. A few weeks ago I was one of the tens of thousands of people who enjoyed reading a blog post on Priceonomics about “The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot” It was an absolutely fascinating read because, being a total SEO geek, I rarely find information in this space that hasn’t been repeated 100 times before.

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How Have I Missed This? | 2¢ Worth

Buzz Marketing for Technology

AJAXed with AWP 2¢ Worth. Teaching & Learning in the new information landscape… How Have I Missed This? First of all, I want to say out loud how much I enjoyed the EdTech conference in Honolulu, and not so much for the obvious reasons. Much more because of the genuine and constant kindness that was shared by everyone. The hospitality that I received there, and everywhere I went in Honolulu warmed my soul.

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Yammer asks: What's Happening at Your Company?

Bare Feet Studios

Lots of AJAX makes using it a breeze. Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > News , Productivity , Social Media , Tech Tools > Yammer asks: What’s Happening at Your Company? Yammer asks: What’s Happening at Your Company?

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

AJAX--way for web page to "talk to server without having to reload itself." The Bamboo Project Blog. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. RANT ALERT! ) In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. As we think about that module and the fact that for most people, their primary interaction with blogs is to read them, Im growing impatient with this idea from a learning perspective.

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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Search Engine Optimization , Social Media > How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page by Tamar Weinberg on December 1, 2009 Share This is a guest post by Jesse Stay , founder and CEO of SocialToo.com and all around great Facebook Fan Page coder. He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials , to two readers.

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