jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that has transformed how industry uses JavaScript and AJAX for websites.  From the most complex animations, to the simplest image loaders, having an understanding of jQuery is a must for any web developer.  By using a combination of jQuery and CSS3, the use of simple animations traditionally done in Flash are now less tedious and fully compliant with W3C standards.  Here’s 5 tutorials to get you started on implementing jQuery into your next development project.

1) Slider Gallery

For those just starting off with an SEO campaign, a great way to start the linkbuilding process is to submit your website to high quality web directories.  The problem that most people have with this process, though, is that they try to take on too many directories at once.  A good approach is to make a list of paid and free directories and submit only to 5-10 per month, especially if you’re on a budget.

Here’s a good starting list of 10 web directories that we recommend submitting to

Recently, SlideShowPro came out with a new version of their Director software, SlideShowPro Director 1.5.  This media management solution has always been great for feeding the SlideShowPro flash player, but it just got better.   Not only can you store all of your photos and video in one central location, but with one click, you can have a universal media player that works across all desktops and mobile devices (iPhone, iPad and Android). For the advanced user, there are numerous settings that you can modify to customize your viewer’s experience, all of which can be found in the SlideShowPro Wiki.

The Beta for SlideShowPro Director 1.5 was available for a few months before the initial launch, and we had the opportunity to give it a test drive.  As soon as the full version launched, a returning client, Hooman from Vesic Photography, contacted WebMovement, LLC to get his website up to date with the new mobile capabilities.  We were happy to help Hooman develop custom SlideShowPro parts of his site for Flash users, as well as the HTML5 optimized player for his mobile users.  You can view the implementations from the links below, as well as take some time to view all of his fantastic photography.  Hooman’s talent and SlideShowPro’s functionality breathe new life into the site.

Vesic Home Page

Vesic Gallery Page

Contact us today if you need help implementing the new mobile features SlideShowPro has to offer.

WebMovement, LLC has expanded it’s hosting services by adding cloud computing services provided by RackSpace Cloud.  We now offer cloud file storage, cloud servers, and cloud website hosting.  There are several uses for each of these services, so let me explain a few.

Cloud Servers: Linux or Windows

What can you do with a cloud server?  Pretty much anything you want.   A cloud server solution is a fully unrestricted root access Linux and/or Windows environment, anything that you could run from a traditional physical dedicated-unmanaged server can be run on a cloud server.

In the world of SEO, linking and link building are significant.  Furthermore, how these links are treated is also important because of how search engines will treat them in turn.  Two important words that get tossed around with linking concepts are DoFollow and NoFollow.  To simplify, we’re going to discuss the implications of the use of the NoFollow attribute for links.

What are NoFollow and DoFollow?

Whenever you create a link on your website, no matter where the link is located (article, comments, etc.), a typical link will be coded as follows:

<a href=”http://www.webmovementllc.com”>Web Movement, LLC</a>

As you can see, this is your average and typical link with an href and how the link will be represented textually.  Now here’s the same link, except tagged with the NoFollow attribute.

There are many strategies that SEOs still use today that are either outdated or just flat out constitute bad practice, and even some that could get a website removed from search engines.  Strategies that are used to spoof search engines and attempt to produce quick results unethically are categorized as Black Hat SEO. When constructing an SEO campaign, remember that results don’t occur overnight and that a large investment of time and long term commitment is involved.  Many times, people that are building and operating their own SEO campaign without a firm or consultant can be misled on what is good or bad practice. Below are some examples of bad practice or misconceptions and what you should do to correct them.

1) Masking text so that it hides in a website background

This tactic is a common practice for “keyword” stuffing.  For example, if I were to make the background color of my website black and then put keywords in my background with black text, this would make the text invisible to most users and attempt to trick search engines into indexing bogus content.  This practice is HIGHLY frowned upon and simply isn’t effective.  In fact, Google states that keyword stuffing can have negative impacts on search rankings.

2) The more meta-keywords, the better

Firstly, not all search engines even utilize the use of meta-keywords for better search rankings.  In fact, Yahoo is the only major search engine to still use the meta-keyword tag.  Bing doesn’t use it, and Google has made it more apparent that they do not utilize the tag either. For those, though, that would like to optimize for Yahoo, only use a few, specific keywords in your tags.  Typos and misspellings do not count, and they could have a negative impact.  Remember, it’s about quality, not quantity.