CSS Image Replacement, what’s up Matt?

So I’m a big fan of CSS image replacement, for several reasons, most importantly because it allows for a semantically correct page while having some text replaced with images, but also because I love sprites and I love using them well. I’ve also always been in favor of the use of CSS Image Replacement for [...]

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Meet Yoast!

Yoast RedesignI’ve redesigned! Read the full post on it, and check out the great new design by clicking around!

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User stylesheets to show nofollows

Update: now works with links with rel=”external nofollow” etc too! I’ve recently switched back to Safari as my main browser because good ol’ Firefox kept crashing on me, and I must say that it’s been a smooth experience so far. Safari is a great browser, of course, and 3.1 is very fast as well. One [...]

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Added a print CSS style sheet

Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get emails from readers asking for a better print style sheet. Until just a few [...]

Resize in WebKit!

So in the latest WebKit nightlies we have a new CSS3 feature: resize. It allows resizing of any box, very useful for textarea’s and other cool stuff. Ofcourse i immediatly added a page on it in my CSS3 Preview section.

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Quick tip: paths and URLs in WordPress

I was reading an article on Sitepoint about custom write panels the other day when I got heavily annoyed. The direct reason for this was one of their code examples and the authors apparent incomplete knowledge of the WordPress API’s most basic functions and constants. In that example, he does the following: define( ‘MY_WORDPRESS_FOLDER’,  $_SERVER[’DOCUMENT_ROOT’] [...]

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Link dump: interesting reads from around the web

So last week I’ve started sharing a lot more of what I read on a day to day basis on Twitter, and I decided I had to share these links here on yoast.com as well. Below is a quite extensive list of links that I found interesting, ordered by topic. I’ll try to do these [...]

Site Analysis Case: Ronen Bekerman

When Ronen Bekerman ordered a site review for his 3D Architectural Visualization Rendering blog, I was immediately excited when I opened the URL. Not often do I get to do a site analysis on a site looking this good, this is dude in large part to the fact that few people have such a creative [...]

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Design & development of your WordPress CMS

So, after reading the article on getting from your website’s goal to a proper site structure, and having determined which kinds of page templates and functionality you’ll need, you’re ready for the next step: designing and developing your site. At the end of this article I’ll go through a short list of often-needed functionality, and [...]

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hreview and hproduct in Magento

Today I gave a presentation at Meet Magento in the Netherlands, talking about SEO for Magento. Up until this point, all articles about that subject here on Yoast have been written by my colleague Joachim Houtman. Last week though, I started playing with Magento myself, in preparation for this presentation today, and I’ve added some [...]