I am a web developer and SEO professional, and use a variety of desktop and online tools to get the job done including Mozilla Firefox. It’s the premium web browser used by most of web professional, but very few comprehend that by installing some of the many free extensions/add-ons, they can get rid of most of the other applications they currently use. Below are my 9 favorite extensions for web:

FireFTP – is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. You don’t need a separate program for FTP, very handy.

Professor X – lets you view web page’s header information without having to view source code. It displays the contents of the page’s header, including Meta, Script and Style content.

WHOIS Lookup 1.1 – View the WHOIS information for any page easily and quickly by clicking the button on the top-right of the browser.

IE View – If you frequently use Internet Explorer to test how your website renders on that browser,tThis add-on allows you to view the way any page would look if it were opened in IE, without the hassle of opening another browser.

WebDeveloper toolbar – This all-in-one toolbar provides you swift control over things like JavaScript display, form and CSS elements, screen resizing (so you know what your website looks like in smaller resolutions), HTML validation, and much more.

AdSense Preview – preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on that page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting the ads up just to see what type of ads will show.

Screen grab – It takes a screen shot of what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use – take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image.

MeasureIt – You can use this to draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements you see on a webpage. It’s very simple to use, and of course very helpful at times.

Gspace – This turns your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) into an online drive, so you can use it to upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet enabled computer.

What are your favorite add-ons for web developing? Leave us a comment below.

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A little boy somewhere in USA, wanted $50 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened.

Finally he decided to write a letter to God requesting $50.When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, they decided to forward it to the President of the United States as a joke. The President was so amused, that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $20 bill. The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy. The little boy was delighted with the $20 bill, and decided to write a thank you note to God, which read:

Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that you sent it through the White House in Washington, DC ..and those assholes deducted $30.

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There are many significant aspects to take into consideration when building a website to generate leads (irrespective of the niche). These aspects will help determine how successful a website is at gaining organic search engine results, converting visitors to solid leads, and overall lead generation success.

High Quality Contents

To stand tall among the crowd, your lead generation website has to be convincing. If you can exhibit your expertise with high-quality content on topics that interest your website users, you can have them coming back again and again. Eventually you’ll earn trust of your users and this’ll lead to success, but remember key is “high-quality fresh content”.

A part from this, you can offer free tools and resources that have value will be highly appreciated. These typically include relevant free eBooks, blogs, and other resources that help your website visitors.

Ease of Use

Great content is a must. But if your visitors can’t easily find way to your information, tools and resources, then that great content will be wasted. Your website must be organized properly so that it is very easy to navigate and is not confusing to your visitor.

Proper website architecture will increase conversion ratings. A big part of architecture is where you place your calls to action. To optimize your conversion percentages to generate the highest possible number of visitors and leads, there should be a visible call to action on every important page of your website. Usually the top portion of your webpage is considered to be the best for the purpose.

Technical Aspects

Although it’s not a major issue these days, but still make sure that your website loads as quickly as possible (avoid excessive use of graphics and animations as much as possible, bottom line is try to keep it simple). Test it to fullest possible extent, your site should perform without any bugs or errors.

Search Engine Optimization

There are many other important stuff you can do to your website to optimize it to generate maximum leads. For example, you can put the keywords you are targeting into your header tags, page urls, as well as on the content of your website. With the proper search engine optimization, you will get higher rankings in the search engine which will bring you more traffic for the terms you are targeting. For more on this topic you may like to visit Learn And Apply SEO To Your Website.

All of the above mentioned points are crucial for cultivating a successful online presence. You can just have a site designed and start making money. You have to give proper time and thoughts to it. The idea is to create a professionally optimized, easy to navigate website that ultimately will generate leads and revenue for you.

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Apache’s mod_rewrite module is a very robust and effective tool and can be used for lots of important stuff related to your website. One of it’s application is to force visitors and search engine robots to either the WWW form of your website (i.e. www.yourdomain.com), or the non-WWW form of your website ( i.e. yourdomain.com).

To accomplish the desired objective you need to add just three lines of code to your .htaccess file. For those of you that don’t know, an .htaccess file is a simple ASCII file that you can create in a text editor like Notepad. The actual name—or rather, the extension—of the file is .htaccess. It’s not file.htaccess, or index.htaccess, or anything else, it’s simply named .htaccess.

Look for it in your site’s root folder/directory (which in most cases would be ‘pubic_html’ or ‘www’ – It does not matter which directory you choose, as they are both the same thing. ). If it’s not there simply use a text editor, insert the code written below, save and upload to your website root. You are now all set to send users typing your website address without www (i.e. yourdomain.com) to the WWW version of your website. Here is the code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Easy, isn’t? Now to send visitors to the non-WWW version of your website. The following lines of code would automatically redirect users typing your domain name with www (i.e. www.yourdomain.com) to the non-WWW version:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

But this is something you should think about at the earlier stages (design and development) of your web site. Applying this after you’ve already been indexed may result in loss of PageRank or even a complete removal and then re-index of your website by the search engine bots.

Hope this’ll help… cheers

Please click below for an updated post especially with regards to subdomains.

http://www.ranatariq.com/tips-tricks/www-non-www-and-subdomains/

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Element: WOMEN

Symbol: WO+

Atomic mass: Accepted as 53.6 Kg; isotopes may vary from 40-200 kg.

Occurrence: Copious quantities in all urban and rural areas.

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

1. Boils at room temperature
2. Freezes without any known reason.
3. Melts if given special treatment.
4. Bitter, if incorrectly used.
5. Sweet as Honey if given a proper treatment.

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

1. Have great affinity for Gold, Silver and a range of precious stones and absorbs great quantities of expensive substances.
2. May explode spontaneously without prior warning and for no known reason.
3. Most powerful money reducing agent known to man.

COMMON USES

1. Highly ornamental, good samples can increase your social value.
2. Can be great aid to administration.

TESTS

1. Pure specimen turns rosy pink when happy.
2. Turns green when placed behind a better specimen.

POTENTIAL HAZARD

Illegal to possess more than one, although, several can be maintained at different locations as long as specimens do not come in direct contact with each other.

!! WARNING!!
PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THIS ELEMENT CAN CAUSE SEVERE FINANCIAL HEMORRHAGING AND MENTAL DISTRESS. BE CAUTIOUS ABOVE PROPERTIES ARE SHOWN BY ALL THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD

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Another golden piece from the past. Very True and leaves a strong mark. We do’nt count our blessings and get very shaken faced with adversity.

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player, was dying of AIDS ( which he got due to infected blood, he received during heart surgery in 1983) From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed his sentiments:

“Why does GOD have to select you for such a fatal disease”?

To this Arthur, Ashe replied:

The world over

• 50 million children start playing tennis,
• 5 million learn to play tennis,
• 0.5 million learn professional tennis,
• 50,000 come to the circuit,
• 5000 reach the grand slam,
• 50 reach Wimbledon,
• 4 to semi final,
• 2 to the finals,

When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD “Why me?”.

And today in pain I should not be asking GOD “Why me?”

Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u glowing, but only God Keeps u going. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

God bless you all

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Subject: ironies..

What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people?
- Greed and selfishness.

What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries?
- Globalization.

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What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens?
- A dictatorship.

What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings?
- A democracy.

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What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial?
- A lynching.

What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial?
- Operation Enduring Freedom.

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What do you call someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor?
- Robin Hood.

What do you call someone who steals from the poor and gives to the rich?
- The US Government.

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What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people?
- A weapon of mass destruction.

What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children?
- Sanctions.

What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US?
- An atrocity.

What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war?
- A mistake.

What do you call a foreign oppressor in the last century that controlled the economical and social life of a country?
- A colonialist power.

What do you call a foreign oppressor in this century that controls the economical and social life of a country?
- The International Monetary Fund.

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What do you call it when people are slaughtered?
- A massacre.

What do you call it when 100.000 to 200.000 Iraqi’s are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)?
- The Gulf War.

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What do you call the 2002 presidential election in Zimbabwe where there are serious irregularities?
- A flawed election.

What do you call the presidential election in the US where there are serious irregularities?
- A victory for democracy.

What do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people?
- A terrorist.

What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent people?
- A brave American pilot.

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What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land?
- A terrorist attack.

What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?
- Self-defense.

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What do you call it when someone gives money to a government official in return for favors?
- Bribery.

What do you call it when a large corporation gives money to a government official in return for favors?
- A campaign contribution.

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Long time back someone send this in my inbox.

Mr. Smith was brought to a Catholic hospital, and taken quickly in for heart surgery. The operation went well and, as the groggy man regained consciousness, he was reassured by a Nun, who was waiting by his bed.

“Mr. Smith, you’re going to be just fine,” said the nun, gently patting his hand. “We do need to know, however, how you intend to pay for your stay here. Are you covered by insurance?” “No, I’m not,” the man whispered hoarsely.

“Then can you pay in cash?” persisted the nun. “I’m afraid I cannot, Sister.”

“Well, do you have any close relatives?” the nun questioned sternly. “Just my sister in New Mexico,” he volunteered. “But she’s a humble spinster nun.” “Oh, I must correct you, Mr. Smith. Nuns are not spinsters – they are married to God!”

“Really?,” said Mr. Smith. “In that case, please send the bill to my brother-in-law!”

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On Thursday US President Barack Obama issued/signed three historic executive orders indicating clearly that as promised he wants USA to return to “moral high ground”. According to the first order Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year. While signing, Obama said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism.”

Second executive order bans the use of torture during suspected terrorist’s interrogation. That in essence ends the Bush administration’s notorious CIA program of horrific interrogation methods. He said “This is me following through … on an understanding that dates back to our founding fathers, that we are willing to observe core standards of conduct not just when it’s easy but also when it’s hard.”

The third important executive order is to set up a task force to lead a systematic review of detention policies, procedures and a complete review of all individual cases.

In another order he closed down all CIA prisons operating abroad. The order “states that the CIA shall close any detention facility that it currently operates and shall not operate any such facility in the future”.

We know, everything takes time and issuing of these order will start numerous debates, but one thing is for sure, this’ll send a good message to world nations especially Muslims.

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It’s really easy these days to create and maintain websites and above all it’s FREE. There are lots of websites or internet companies giving away free domains, subdomains, hosting, blogs etc. Wordpress.com and Blogger.com top the list.

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. Wordpress has two flavors:

1. Create your website free on their server with some limitations (like storage, less features etc).
2. Or download Wordpress and install on your own server/hosting account. Infact most of the share hosting accounts come with installable version of Wordpress. So just click few times and have it up and running. Tons of widgets, plugins and themes available for this type of Wordpress version.

Blogger.com is owned by the big guy Google and it is highly search engine optimized. So if you do it seriously (maintain your website properly and regularly), you can have hundreds of visitors flocking to your website from Google search result.

Some more free website providers:

• Microsoft OfficeLive Small Business
• Homestead
• Angelfire – free website hosting
• Typepad.com
• Build a Free Website – Synthasite
• BlinkWeb – Free Internet Blog Or Website
• Yahoo – Geocities
• Webs.com – Free Website

This is my bit, if you have a resource worth sharing, please hit comment.

Good luck!

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