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Nov
7

Web design is fun, but you should really focus on producing content

mywebmastertips on November 7th, 2009

Being a web designer is so much fun and challenging. I just recently caught myself focusing a lot of time on re-designing a music website of mine. This is why I decided to write this blog post. No matter how much fun it is to update and tune up your website to look like perfection, [...]

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Aug
4

How to fix boards and topics for Pretty URLs mod with www prefix

mywebmastertips on August 4th, 2009

If you’re like me and added a Simple Machines Forum to a pre-existing website that is already grounded with a www prefix, then you might have some trouble while installing the Pretty URL mod for your SMF forum. The problem I had was that all the urls worked perfectly fine except for the board and [...]

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Aug
1

CSS versus HTML tables for page layouts

mywebmastertips on August 1st, 2009

I once got caught in the hype that having your entire website being without tables and all css styling instructions being in a separate file would help the search engines crawl my site better. While having all your styling information in a separate style.css file does help your website’s overall code cleanliness and makes it [...]

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Jul
30

How to remove – index from SMF Forum home page title

mywebmastertips on July 30th, 2009

I love Simple Machines Forums. They have so many cool features, layouts, super fast and well organized scripts, and so much more that I’m going to have to stop praising SMF for now. The only thing that Simple Machines Forums lack is a few Search Engine friendly principles that are a necessity for SEO optimization. [...]

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