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Google Chrome is a (relatively) new kid on the block who quickly gain good market share in the browser niche, and it’s is equipped with a Handy Tool for Developers.

WordPress is strengthening its position as the dominating blogging platform or Content Management System (CMS) used by the world’s top 100 blogs. This year, WordPress is used by 52% of the top blogs, up from the 48% we identified in our study in 2012.

With over 65 million WordPress sites in the world, it’s clear that Automattic’s platform is popular. But let’s have a look at the entire top 100.

It never fails. A new year comes along or Google unleashes a new algorithm change, and SEO professionals start whirling theories and warnings about how SEO will never be the same. They claim SEO is dead.

Once you’ve been in this industry for a while, you learn to pay attention to what’s going on, but not to jump to conclusions and pull your hair out every time someone sneezes.

Link building has always been an integral part of performing effective SEO on any site, regardless of whether it’s a big brand or small mom-n-pop shop around the corner. But when Penguin hit the scene in April 2012, a whole new mindset had to be adopted.

No longer could you easily get away with ranking a lower-quality site merely by creating an army of backlinks for it. And in the SEO world, heads were spinning. To this day, many agree on some principles of links, building them, which ones are good, and which ones really help your site (or hurt them). Other times, there’s disagreement.

Co-citations are becoming a hot topic in the SEO world these days, and for good reason. Several years ago there was a lot of discussion about them; it was the hot new thing for SEO professionals to talk about. But the talk sizzled down… until very recently.

We are always talking about clean and minimal designs, designs that are simple and effective, and lately, we are also talking a lot about the new trendy flat designs. So why it is so difficult to find a “pricing page” that is well designed? If designers are taking websites to a next level where usability and beauty are combined to deliver awesomeness, why when you go from a homepage to a pricing page you feel like you are entering a totally different website? Designers should pay more attention to this specific page, specially if they want better conversion rates.

It doesn’t matter if you are developing a website for a restaurant, a service provider or something else that may require periodical payments, you need to put a lot thought into the pricing portion of the site. First of all, you want to show the pricing menu in a clear way so that users don’t need to search for it. Second, if the homepage looks amazing, do the same with the pricing page so it’s obvious to the user that you care about your product. Third, remember to be clear and provide the important information your users need to know. Avoid small letters and confusing data.

One page websites are brilliant. Just one simple page that holds all your information, no clicking, just scrolling. Content heavy, yes. Although if done right this can be eliminated.

White is certainly an elegant color, and when properly used in web design, it can deliver really beautiful results, as the ones we will see here today. 

Pages load much faster on smartphones and tablets now compared to last year, as measured by the Google Analytics service.

Performance improvements over the last year mean Web pages measured by the Google Analytics service load significantly faster for people using mobile devices.

The pages load 30 percent faster for mobile browsers now than they did a year ago, Steve Souders, Google's head performance engineer, said in a presentation earlier. And for desktop browser users, the pages load 3.5 percent faster.

While haters are hating Adobe's shift to subscription-only software, a price comparison shows plenty of customers won't be gouged by the Cloud. Read this article by Stephen Shankland on CNET News.

To shed some light on the situation, CNET broke out the spreadsheet software, dug into pricing information from Adobe and retail outlets, and put together some actual comparisons to see whether that wrath is deserved.

The answer, as with all things complicated, is that it depends. But at least in some reasonable situations -- not just power users but also middle-end customers who upgrade to Adobe's latest releases -- the Creative Cloud isn't a bad deal at all.

For example, imagine a customer planning on three years' use of the Design Standard version of CS6, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. That customer would pay about $1,648 for the original product and one upgrade at going rates.

With the Creative Cloud, $1,800 pays for three years' worth of that software. But for that extra $152, the customer also gets Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Pro, Edge Animate, Muse, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, Audition, and various online services.

Choosing the Creative Cloud is a no-brainer when looking at the CS6 Production Premium package, which is like CS6 Design Standard but also with Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speedgrade, Audition, and Flash Professional. The premium package price is $2,273 for an original version and update -- $625 more than the subscription, but with less software and no online services.

The best marketing campaign is a clean, simple idea that is beautifully executed. But what it won't reflect are the backroom battles that went into it, particularly the frisson that tends to exist between marketing professionals and designers.

That friction is understandable. While marketers have tangible, measurable objectives, designers often have a 'vision' that's not objectively measurable in any way.

This disparity between these ways of working, thinking and existing will inevitably lead to tension. Compromise can usually be reached, but usually not without the odd diva tantrum, showdown or (at the very least) passive aggressive email. In this article I'll look at this classic love/hate relationship in more detail, examining where the tension stems from and what can be done to diffuse it...

Typography in web design in one of the key parts of a successful design. Picking that typeface however is no mean feat, nor is decided how big to go.

With the shift to flat UI design showing no signs of abating, Instagram receives a redesigned concept interface.