On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
The web is mostly visual I guess. My most popular posts on CR are those with a high visual content.
And on those you agree to pages —
In research for the book [...]

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I go to bed with the website looking just fine, I wake up and the sidebar is at the bottom of the page. What gives?
Oh fark, time to try and fix things …
Update: Fixed. It was the post made from ScribeFire. The image was too large for the width of the page and had bumped [...]

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This is my first post using ScribeFire. It seems to have slipped under the radar for me, considering I’m one of the blogging ‘old guard’. I’m going to spend a few days trying it out and I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’m going to have to search my blog and see if I’ve ever [...]

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Arg arg arg.
No, not hot coffee in the lap again, but seeing the same post on so many different sites. Take for example these animal silluettes on boing boing, neatorama, productdose and cribcandy. That’s just a quick example of how the same thing will spread across big sites that really shouldn’t be repeating each others [...]

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CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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WPDesigner is aiming at making a new kind of WordPress Theme community.
It’s member driven, supported and you can use the themes personally or commercially, just no reselling. The catch? It costs to join the WPDesigner club.
Is it really a catch though?
The fact you have to pay to join means you get paid support, a [...]

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Looking for a good robots.txt file for WordPress? Well here’s a good example, culled from a few different guides around the web and rolled into one file:
example_robots.txt
The crawl delay prevents bots using too much of your site bandwidth by over crawling.
example_sitemap.xml.txt
You can auto generate your basic Sitemap here. Auto generate a 500 page Sitemap here.

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The iPhone, and to a lesser extent the iPod Touch, has revolutionised Internet access on the go. 80% of iPhone users have taken the device online. Unheard of in smartphone statistics.
What does this mean? The mobile-device (non-laptop) revolution is coming. If your website cannot be easily viewed on a mobile device then now is the [...]

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