CSS Sprites are the preferred method for reducing the number of image requests. Combine your background images into a single image and use the CSS background-image and background-position properties to display the desired image segment.CSS sprites also are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site so it will increase page loading speed.This post looks at useful tutorials for CSS Sprites.

1.How to Make a CSS Sprite Powered Menu

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Wordpress Pagination enables you to paginate lists of entries. For example, at the bottom of my home page you can see a list of linked page numbers to enable visitors to jump to any page number they want, instead of  “Next” and “Previous” links.

There are a lot of benefits for pagination such as  Improving Usability Of Your WordPress Blog , Enable your visitors to browse your site quickly and easily and ability to step through a large number of pages.

With Pagination , you can also paginate your Category, Author, and date-based archives, and even paginate your Entry archives, displaying only a small number of comments on each page.This post looks at best wordpress pagination solutions.

1.WP Digg Style Pagination Plugin

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Blogging has emerged as the most popular way of making money online in the last few years. As we know that like every other niche blogging is also constantly evolving, traditional text blogging these days is being replaced by Video blogging, micro-blogging has gained a huge popularity in 2009 but blogging still tops the majority of “How to make money online” lists.

According to Technorati State of blogosphere report 2009, there has been a staggering growth of 68% in the number of blogs as compared to 2008 which are trying to monetize their traffic in one way or another. The report also reveals that the popularity of Google Adsense has decreased from 67% in 2008 to 47% in 2009 which means that the bloggers are heading towards other ad publishing networks and affiliate companies to monetize their traffic.

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Firefox has been constantly gaining ground as the go to web browser for many web designers and developers. Firefox’s most popular feature is the use of extensions to enhance the browsers capability beyond simple website viewing. For developers and designers this means being able to add tools to the browser to speed up their workflow by completing tasks while viewing work in the browser. Currently Mozilla has nearly 1000 plug-ins listed in the web development category for Firefox. Here we will focus on the most popular and useful Firefox extensions for web development and design.

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I’ve seen a lot of inaccurate information on search engine optimization on the web. Most of that inaccurate info comes from vague theory and not tested concept. However, there are some fundamentals to search engine optimization which will probably always remain true.

1. Use the 80/20 Rule When Doing SEO

Google says they have over 200 ranking factors in their algorithm. I suppose the same is with Yahoo with Bing. However, this should not scare you. If we take the 80/20 rule, we can conclude that 20% of those ranking factors contribute to 80% of the rankings.

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It’s a great idea for people running popular blogs or sites to launch a job board. A lot of blogs have very focused and dedicated audiences, and job board makes it possible to make extra money for blog owners.so here a free and paid job board solutions for wordpress.

WordPress Job Board Script

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With a vast variety of Design tutorials,articles and resources released Everyday.This week I found some interesting fresh resources for Designers that are worth checking out.We have collected these Resources from various resources over the web especially Twitter.So please follow us on twitter here if you not a follower.

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30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation-http://bit.ly/7LuOkF

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques-http://bit.ly/8LqKwZ

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With the progression of the Web, hundreds of web design tools have been established around the world to serve the growing demand for such work.Many of this tools are available and widely used by Web Designers and Webmasters. These tools help Them to explore, learn, design and build their projects from scratch.If you’re also a beginner Web designer, these simple tools can help you create the Layout,StyleSheet,Favicons,Buttons,Wordpress Theme and much more quick easy.If you found this post useful please Retweet it.

1.Artypapers Buttons

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WordPress is one of the most popular blog platforms these days and it has grown so powerful that you can use it also use as Content Management System (CMS). For this article we’ve spent time searching for Wordpress Tricks and Tutorials for Designers to make a professional Wordpress theme.There are hundreds of tricks over there on wordpress blogs but we only collected the most interesting tricks.If we forgot one please comment it and Retweet this post.

1.Create A jQuery Powered Author Box For Wordpress

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Time management tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. There are a lot of Web 2.0 tools out there to help you suc­ceed with your 2010 new year’s resolution. Here is a list of some of the top-rated sites for help­ing you in time man­age­ment.

Res­cue­Time

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