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How I Lost My Domain Name and How I Got it Back
One of my domains: WhoTalking.com has been stolen recently. I got it back in 4 days. So, what happened? Saturday, 1 Sept 2012 Found my domain WhoTalking.com has gone to a wrong location Couldn’t login to the reigstrar CrazyDomains.com.au Couldn’t get the reset password email Called CrazyDomains. The tech guy in CrazyDomains told me WhoTalking.com has been [...]
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How To Use Both HTML5 And CSS3 In Low Browsers?
Besides what I have talked in HTML5 SHIV – How To Implement HTML5 For Low IE Versions, there is also another way to implement both HTML5 and CSS3. It is called Modernizr which is also an open-source Javascript Library to minimize the trouble for web developers. Also for making HTML5 work on innerHTML and Jquery, [...]
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HTML5 SHIV – How To Implement HTML5 For Low IE Versions
The worries about browser incompatibilities is always holding me back to utilize the latest front-end web development technologies such as HTML 5. However, thanks to the open source communities. Great people in web development world have done the most hard part of the work. What we need to do is just use their work without [...]
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How to make IE NOT cache the Ajax result
I have been developing a complex web form lately. As usual, I was using Firefox + Firebug as my favorite development browser tools. When I finished the form. I started to test it on IE 9. The form is working perfectly in Firefox but then I realized that something is wrong in IE. I use [...]
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Prevent Website Failover To Stop Your Customers – DNS Failover and Flipping
If your business is totally relying on your websites, any failure of the sites will be big pains for you. One of our current hosting providers is NetLogistics.com.au. In last 2 months, there were 2 big down times. Each of them lasted at least half day. The website Topdocs.com.au which is our most important website [...]
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What Are Important To Social Media Analytics and Monitoring Tools
Social Media Marketing now is one of the hottest topics of Internet Marketing. The burst of social media makes people suddenly realize that word of mouth over the social media world is too important to ignore. Just as any other sources of market information, there always needs tools to monitor and analyze the data for [...]
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Drupal – How To Customize Main Navigation Menu Without Using Modules
I was using a Javascript plugin for the drop down menu of one of my websites. I am quite happy with this plugin and want to use it again on my current web project. This time I am using Drupal as the site build engine. When I was trying to implement the previous drop down [...]
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How To Create Keyword Lists for SEO – 10 Steps
My bossed asked me to generate a group of keyword lists for our main products. This is how I generated them which my boss was quite happy with: 1. Go to the target pages of your current website to manually pick up any related keywords with the main products/topics and put them into a keywords [...]
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Telerik – The Web UI Controls And Components For Microsoft Development Platforms
I have to say if it’s not because the current job I wouldn’t get chance to know Telerik at all. I am a web person. My very first programming project in my college back to 2000 was creating a online teaching website by using ASP(without .NET) and HTML. So I have been used to build [...]
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Cufón – The Best Way to Implement Your Own Fonts for Webpages
Web industries have many limits on many aspects, if you want your pages be viewed correctly on any browsers. Since I found out most cool fonts were poorly supported because of browsers incompatibilities many years ago, I always have been trying to use safe fonts for the web projects . I simply thought it is [...]
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