Twitter has transformed the way people communicate with each other. It has now become extremely popular across the web with millions of users exchanging billions of tweets each day. Almost every blog today has a retweet button for allowing its readers to share the articles on twitter.

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Along with Apple’s official release of the new iPhone 3.0 software came a number of new graphic GUI elements. We’ve been holding off updating the Photoshop file until we could properly implement the additions. We built it using vectors, so it’s all still fully editable. Apple’s SDK is amazing, but when we need to mock up something quickly for a pitch we turn to this.

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Have you looked near your MySQL database since you first set it up? If you’re like most of us, you probably don’t go in there too often.MySQL is complicated and unfriendly to use, and well, your site works as it is. So why bother?

If you do happen to venture in there occasionally though, you might find there are a few simple tricks you can pull to make the most of your database usage. From headache-saving tricks for you, to cranking a little more performance out of your server, check out the 7 tips below.

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Follow these simple rules for search engine optimization and your blog will rank much higher in Search Engines.

1. Use your primary keyword in your blog domain

The first thing to do is to ensure that your blogs URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for. Using the targeted keyword in subdomains also helps. For example, if you want to start a HTML tutorial site then the primary keyword you want your URL to contain is html. So choose a URL like www.htmlhelp.com. You can also use the keyword in subdomains like www.web-design.com/htmlhelp

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There are a few essential steps that need to be taken with any new WordPress install. Obviously not every WordPress blog will be the same but there are some basics that I feel should be done regardless of what kind of blog you’re creating.

Here we’ll go through ten steps that are essential to perform after any wordpress install including a list of ten plug-ins that are a must for blogs of any type.

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WordPress is arguably the most popular and the best blogging platform out there. You might have installed WordPress on your site, but you might be scared to experiment with WordPress worrying that you could break your site and WordPress.

Experimenting is one of the best way to learn new things and if you break your site, you probably might not want your visitors to see the fault as it might leave a bad impression. So, it is necessary to have the ability to learn WordPress and try new themes, plugins and other items without putting it online where people can see.

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Photoblogs have the very best looking content, no doubt about it. Why then can it be so hard to design a photoblog well? Surely the photos alone look good enough?

These tips discuss the theme and design for the blog/gallery, and I’ll be following it up later with a post on how to organize and display the images well.

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Got a website but no traffic?

Virtual Splat internet marketing specializes in search engine marketing and effective web promotion. In other words, getting your website found and visible!

Why search engine marketing is so important today?

Below are a few facts which should leave you in doubt that search engine marketing should form an integral part of every web promotion strategy.

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