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We Are Linguists

More so now than ever, the service and professional industries must be multilingual. This is exceptionally true for the businesses in the Web sphere because of how dynamic and expansive technology is getting.

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No More CSS Hacks

There is something fundamentally wrong with how hacks work. They are based on producing errors in the CSS code to exploit browser flaws that prevents them from parsing certain CSS properties and values. If you are interested in semantics and standards you would never put a similar hack in an XHTML file, so why would you do it in the CSS file?

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Choosing a Good Domain Name

Is it really that important to have your main keyword in the domain name? Should you really be looking for "buy-widgets-at-my-site.info" in the end? This article is about domain names and why branding is in and keywords are out.

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Design Psychology

Insights into the purpose and effect of physical elements, design, and layout of web pages ...and why clients should let designers handle design.

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Making a google search engine with standards

This article will demonstrate how you can build your own search engine using Google's API service and some PHP magic. And while we're at it, we might as well do it right this time, using semantic XHTML markup and accessible forms. This will also make it possible for you to add your own search engine to your site with googles powerful back-end serving up the results.

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