Small changes can cause big improvements. Todays topic is about small css improvements, resulting in visual feedback for your visitors and improvements to your blogs user interface. Most of the CSS below only works in the newest browsers, but it shouldn’t prevent you from using it.
Don’t just change the color of the link, provide feedback
Instead of just changing the color of your links, provide your websites’ visitors with visual feedback for their interaction.
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I currently have 9 Spotify invites to give away. Spotify is a free music stream service with more than 2 Mio. users worldwide. If your familiar with iTunes, you’ll like Spotify’s slim and fast streaming App based on Adobe AIR (available for Windows & OS X). You can listen to all the music you like as often you want to, create and share playlists with friends — all for free.

Spotify Desktop Application for Windows
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In my last article about WordPress, Canonical URL’s, Optimized Permalinks, I explained why and how I easily managed to change my blogs permalinks structure with Dean’s Permalinks Migration plugin without the hassle of 404s or duplicate content.
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I updated my WordPress permalinks from an old-fashioned and quite outdated /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to the more optimized structure /%post_id%-%postname%/. Although I still like it if I can see the date and the entry title at a glance, the new structure has two advantages:
- the new permalink structure is in some cases faster because of the way wordpress stores the URL information in the database (see further: Efficient permalink strategies for WordPress)
- according to SEO’s, a link like cordobo.com/540-firefox-add-ons-for-developers/ is more likely to result in a better SERP position than (the same) link named cordobo.com/2008/09/30/firefox-add-ons-for-developers/
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