6. Myth: You need a quirky hiring process.
Would you hire an actor without an audition? You wouldn’t last long as a director if you did. But this is exactly what almost all companies who hire software developers do today. Usually the process involves talking through an applicant’s experience with them. And that’s all.
It’s for a developer easy to criticize a plugin that has just been created, to find random security flaws or over-looked elements of the design that passed unnoticed through the testing phase. As much as I love developing plugins, I’m usually very nervous about other developers criticizing my work, especially in private emails to clients 
I can spend hours creating all of these perfect features, only for another developer to come along and criticize something that I missed while I was concentrating on a million other things. Futuremore, WordPress plugin development is usually only handled by one developer, so that means you’re in charge of design, security, bug-checking and of adding new features. That sucks, because you’re directly responsible for all of that as well.
In case you haven’t seen the new Yahoo Mail, check it out here. Although much better than the previous versions of Yahoo Mail, this version seems to ride very much off a copy of GMails design. Particularly in the layout of key elements of the page. They have kept the tabs though, which is one particularity of the site that I do detest, simply because it makes it more difficult to track where you are.
Pure CSS buttons that actually look good – is it a myth? These days, I don’t believe they are. Sometimes I’m too lazy to get onto photoshop and play around with designs until I work something good out, or I don’t feel that it’s worth it to hire a professional designer. If there’s one thing I do know though, it’s how to code a design in css. Here are some buttons that I designed purely in CSS, and I’ll give you the CSS for these buttons completely free .
Post-Capitalism is something that I am sure there has been a lot written about, including by Integral thinkers like Ken Wilber. Without having read much about it, I have recently been thinking about the idea quite a lot, especially with regards to the influence that technology is having on this change.
Table style – it’s a difficult thing to do right sometimes without a plugin, or either by spending a lot of time playing with css styles and refreshing the browser to see your new changes. You know I’m telling the truth What we really need, I realized after searching many times for good looking table css examples, is a site that gives us some css examples and alternative stylesheets to help us design good-looking tables. I’ve compiled a few here that I’ve spent my own time designing, and I hope that people can use these to build upon and to design really nice tables. Maybe someone will take these and build a little design site that has css examples for things like tables, forms, headers, etc. There really is a need for this kind of thing…at least my need!
This is for tables that hold data, which is really the purpose of tables, so it includes table headers, etc. Let’s start with something basic that we can build upon.
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Cee Lo Green is probably my favorite musical artist right now, but his website is an SEO disaster. I spent some time looking at it and making comments. I hope that we can learn from their mistakes. Cee Lo, if you read this, your website can be fixed easily and you’ll finally get the rankings you deserve. You can see his site here: Cee Lo Green.
www.ceelogreen.com and www.ceelogreen.com/home.htm are bringing up the exact same page, but there is no canonical meta link telling the search engines that they are the same thing. This creates duplicate content on the likes of Google, which will dilute its SEO value. They also link to the ‘home.htm’ page on the website, while I imagine external links to the site will rarely ever include this. That means that their internal linking to the homepage is useless, and harmful. Furthermore the concept of a 404 error does not exist on the site. If you go to www.ceelogreen.com/lol, you’ll get a valid page with the text “Page not Found” and a link to the homepage.
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Whether you’re a developer, a blogger, or a mom-and-pop store owner, you probably want to make your website popular. How do you make your website popular though? Websites become popular because they get people to go to them on a regular basis, and then those people link to that website and share it with their friends. The trick is to get people to enjoy being on your website enough to come again, and then to feel confident enough to share your site with their friends. This is why making your website social is such an important thing. You don’t think that your business site can be social? You’re wrong. This article is going to tell you some ways that you can make any website more social, and get your website to be more popular.
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I don’t know what it is, perhaps all programmers are like this, but I have this need to strip away everything that is unnecessary from my websites. Google Analytics isn’t even worth it for me, I’d rather just not have that external connection that I know can add milliseconds onto a user’s load time. Is this a rare form of coder-autism, or does it really help your site?
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A few days ago, I went to my Facebook messages section and I found an alert that said “Would you like to activate your own Facebook email address?” At first I was quite excited. I had always thought that the best way that Facebook could compete better with Google was if they brought out email, and made their app good enough to allow users to switch over from GMail. Facebook email, however, is currently a failure in many respects.
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