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Shortcodes are real time-savers for all WordPress users. They allow you to do complex tasks easily, just by inserting the shortcode in your post editor. Today, I’m glad to show you 10 new and super useful WordPress shortcodes to boost your productivity!

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Social media followers are not baseball cards, they're not meant to be collected. They're value does not increase with time, in fact, they have no monetary value whatsoever. You cannot sell them. The number of people you have in your network is not an indication of how profitable you will be. Why then do we work so hard to collect them?

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You can go out and read a bunch of books about conversion rate optimization, web analytics, and multivariate testing, or you can just read the rest of this page in five minutes and leave with a concrete plan to start optimizing your webpages today (you can read all the other books later, they're quite good, just not the best place to start).

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In my previous posts, we discovered How to Use HTML5 File Drag & Drop, and Open Files Using HTML5 and JavaScript. Now we have a valid set of files, it possible to upload each one to the server. The process occurs asynchronously in the background so the user can complete other on-page tasks while it occurs.

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CSS grid frameworks can make your life easier, but they’re not without their faults. Fortunately for us, modern techniques offer a new approach to constructing page layouts. But before getting to the solution, we must first understand the three seemingly insurmountable flaws currently affecting CSS grids.

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To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit can make a world of difference. Here Denise Jacobs rounds up 21 great tools to aid the process of making your sites responsive

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Over the years of being in the innovation space, I’ve discovered a set of laws by trial and error. Needless to say, I have the scars from the school of hard knocks to validate that these are the set of laws that are critical for innovation success. If you violate any one of them, the consequences can be disastrous. These laws apply to all sizes of organizations ranging from well-established multi-nationals, to early stage start-ups to governments.

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For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed up with, how we signed up, or even if we ever signed up at all.

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Dragging and dropping files from your desktop to a browser is one of the ultimate goals for web application integration. This is the first in a four-part series of posts

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Mobile barcodes are turning up everywhere – buses, magazines, television, bar coasters. According to recent research from comScore, 14 million U.S. mobile phone users scanned QR or barcodes in June alone, mostly via newspapers, magazines and product packaging, both at home and in-store.

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In the era of information technologies running business has become less routine and more efficient. Modern market provides us with an extensive list of online tools that help manage almost all business processes starting from collaboration and ending with bookkeeping.

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List of vendor prefixed css properties. Very useful to have them all in one place.

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A very nice grid system for creating attractive responsive layouts.

"Golden Grid System (GGS) splits the screen into 18 even columns. The leftmost and rightmost columns are used as the outer margins of the grid, which leaves 16 columns for use in design."

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"Lurking beneath the perilously cluttered face of the app world are tools that could be useful to you, and a modest investment of time up front could save you a headache down the road."

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In a sign of growth for the technology, some 14 million people in the U.S. — more than twice the population of Massachusetts — used a QR code in June, according to a new report.

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In my time of working on Web applications for businesses, I have identified three secrets that seem to make things go a lot smoother:

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This advice is aimed at people running a business. You may not have strong IT or marketing skills, but you’re probably aware of the importance of Search Engine Optimization. Hopefully, this will help you avoid the mistakes made by others…

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In this 7-minute video tutorial on accessible web app forms, you’ll learn how to make web app forms more accessible.

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