Why you should use Mozilla Flock

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Flock is a browser based on Mozilla Firefox and it's geared toward Blogging and Social Networking. If you are a social networking butterfly or you use Wordpress for your blog, Flock it's a "must have". But Flock is incredibly useful for Web developers as well.

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Google clears up the "Duplicate Content" debacle

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Are you afraid that your article's PDF version may decrease your ranking? Concerned about duplicate content? Google wants to put your fears at rest. Apparently, duplicate content is not, and it has never been, the big problem most people fear.

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Using Microsoft Word to write website content

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How to convert MS Word to HTML cheaply and effectively

Many people are comfortable writing their website content with a Word Processor. For most that means using Microsoft Word.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Word is not very compliant with most modern browsers and it adds a plethora of superfluous code to your HTML that is very hard to clean properly. The result is that if you copy and paste from MS Word to your HTML document, regardless of the system you use, the result will be less than satisfactory and it often will even break your page.

The reason is that MS Word uses a number of proprietary tags and even saving your document a HTML page won't cure the problem.

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - first impressions

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Adobe just released the stable version of their popular IDE, Dreamweaver. Now in version CS4 (or version 10 if you like to keep track of it that way), Dreamweaver continues to be the editor of choice for many web developers and whenever a new version is released it is an important milestone in the business.

In this "First Impressions" review I am going to look at Dreamweaver CS4 as applied to the editing of Joomla templates and websites and not so much as related to the more traditional uses of the program. For more information in regard to my Joomla (and dynamic website) workflow, please refer to my blog post here.

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