• Is it having relevancy with my present job?

• Which IT sector or company is offering the IT certification? At the same time you need to offer more attention for the IT certifications in demand and offered by Microsoft, Cisco, HP and Plante3. No one can argue about the IT certifications supplied by these companies.

• What will be the demand for your selected IT certification in the future? It will become outdated or the present demand will remain the same?
As per the Gartner group, it has recently announced the top ten IT certifications for 2010. These days, companies are offering more priority to sustainability and saving of money. All these aspects have been taken into consideration while deciding the top ten IT certifications for the year. This list also includes, Green IT, Social computing and Security like aspects. These are the prime things, which a company will look for while hiring an IT professional for the business process. These days, such aspects are going high on expectation when IT professional are moving for employment world to find a lucrative job opportunity. If you have accomplished an IT certification and that don’t covers all these areas, then you may lack a good job!

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Now we will start this post by introducing Windows Live Writer!

What is Windows Live Writer and How it can be used :

Windows Live Writer is available for download today.

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.

Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone.

Writer has lots of features which we hope make for a better blogging experience. Some of the ones we are most excited about include:

WYSIWYG Authoring

Rich Text Editor

The first thing to notice about Writer is that it enables true WYSIWYG blog authoring. You can now author your post and know exactly what it will look like before you publish it. Writer knows the styles of your blog such as headings, fonts, colors, background images, paragraph spacing, margins and block quotes and enables you to edit your post using these styles.

Writer also includes other views including HTML source-code editing and web preview mode.

Now you don’t have to waste time going through the process of publishing, refreshing, previewing, and tweaking your post to get it looking the way you want. It’s all right there in Writer as you create your post.

Photo Publishing

Writer makes inserting, customizing, and uploading photos to your blog a snap. You can insert a photo into your post by browsing image thumbnails through the “Insert Picture” dialog or by copying and pasting from a web page.

Once you’ve inserted the picture, Writer provides contextual editing tools to modify size, text wrapping, borders, and apply graphic effects. Writer also allows you specify a smaller thumbnail to that will link to a larger image for detailed viewing.

Photos can be either uploaded directly to your weblog provider (if they support the newMediaObject API) or to an FTP server.

Map Publishing

Whether you are blogging about a vacation or a political conflict, maps are a great help in engaging the imagination of your readers. You can do this using Writer’s ability to insert a Windows Live Local map directly into a post.

Even better is that the map can be customized directly within Writer – including changing the view to show road, aerial or bird’s eye detail and by adding pushpins (including custom links and/or photos for each pushpin).

When readers click on the map they get a larger view on the Windows Live Local site.

Writer SDK

Already thinking of other cool stuff you want to insert into your blog? Good!

The Windows Live Writer SDK allows developers to extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional content types. Examples of content types that can be added include:

1. Images from online photo publishing sites
2. Embedded video or audio players
3. Product thumbnails and/or links from e-commerce sites
4. Tags from tagging services

We can’t wait to see all the things people cook up with the SDK!

Compatibility

Writer is a great client for Windows Live Spaces but also works with other weblogs including Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress (and many others).

Writer supports RSD (Really Simple Discoverability), the Metaweblog API, and the Movable Type API.

We want Writer to work well with every blogging service out there. If you can’t get Writer to work with your blog, we want to know.

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If you want to remove the annoying Nav-Bar on your Blogspot Blogger, follow this simple Step given Below…

Blogger navbar allows users to easily navigate to other random blogs and it also has a feauture to search the blogs ,and mark any blog as Spam or Flag it.
So,now you have a clear idea of what really a blogger navbar is.So, why so many people prefer to just remove the navbar inspite of the feautures it has like search,etc.Many people think that, it spoils the look of the blog,especially if your blog has differnet subtitle layout which looks too obvious to see for a visitor.Well, let me come to the actual point on how to disable or hide your blogger navbar.

Below is the step-by-step procedure on how to do it with photos to make it easy to understand.

1.Sign in to your blogger account and click the layout button next to your blog name

2.Next,click the edit html tab as shown in the below picture.

3.Add the below html code as specified in the below picture.

#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

4. Save the changes.

Now, you can see your blog without that navbar(this tip can only hides the navbar,it doesn’t completely delete it).If you want the navbar to appear again,just remove that code and save the changes.
If you have any doubts,regarding this post,don’t hesitate to ask.You can ask your doubts via comments to this post.

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Advantage of two column blog-
1. It is very neat and clean.
2. Very easy to navigate.
3. Downloading time of page is less.

Disadvantage two column blog-
1. Less space for widget
2. Less space for advertisement
3. Your content should be large to fill more space.

Advantage of three column blog
1. More space for widget.
2. More space for advertisement.
3. More information about blog at side widget

Disadvantage of three column blog-
1. Difficult to find useful widget
2. Three column blogs are not looks very clean and neat.

So on the above basis the conclusion is- If you are new blogger and want to earn money from small traffic, you should use 3 column blog, If you are not using any ad network or more widget, you should use 2 column blog.

If you are a popular blogger, and you are generating money from your content or affiliate marketing, you should use 2 column blog. So that reader have more concentration on the content of your blog. If you have permanent readers, by 2 column blog you will present your content in clean way. You will not annoy your readers by lots of widget and Ads.

If your main source of traffic is from Google, you should use 3 column blog, so that you can make more money from non-returning visitors. You can give much information about your blog in side widget, so that non-retuning visitors can view other links of your blog and they may find your blog useful and will become regular reader of your blog .

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In order to know all of this, the theme uses PHP tags to get the information. However, it has to use these tags every time a page is loaded.

As most of the information never changes, you can delete these tags from your theme, and replace them with normal text. That way, your server has less to process next time around.

13 Common Tags in WordPress Themes

The easiest way to replace the tags is to load up a page from your blog, then “View Source.” Now go through your theme and look for the following tags, then find what each tag corresponds to in your page source. Paste the text from the page source over the theme tags.

Save the files after every change and check that the new version of the page is identical to the old.

1. <?php language_attributes(); ?> found in header.php.
2. <?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?> found in header.php.
3. <?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?> found in header.php.
4. <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> found throughout the theme.
5. <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –> found in header.php. If you’re using a 3rd party stats program (like Google Analytics) then you’ve nothing to worry about, and if your version of WordPress is out of date, you won’t want hackers knowing that.
6. <?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?> found in header.php.
7. <?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?> founder in header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php. Be careful if you switch to FeedBurner after doing this. Make sure you remember to update the feed URL here manually (The FeedSmith plugin won’t do it anymore).
8. <?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?> found in header.php.
9. <?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?> found throughout the theme.
10. <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?> found throughout the theme. Your site’s slogan.
11. <?php bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’); ?> found in sidebar.php and footer.php.
12. <!– <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. –> found in footer.php. This HTML comment won’t be overly useful to many of us, so delete away!
13. If you are using widgets, you can also delete the code in sidebar.php between the lines<?php /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
    if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    and
    <?php endif; ?>
    Content between these 2 lines is only used if widgets are not enabled. If you know that you will continue to use widgets, then there is no need for any code here (It may be worth leaving a comment along the lines of “Content here used if widgets are disabled” to remind yourself of this in the future).

By removing these, you’ll shave the load of your server and pages will be constructed that bit faster.

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Most websites have “contact us” forms where visitors can fill in their email address and send a message directly to the owner of the site but these forms have one major limitation – the visitor cannot attach image files with the message.

To solve this very problem and make things a bit more convenient for your visitors, SnapABug has released a simple JavaScript based Help widget that can be added to any website with a simple copy-paste!

Help Button Lets Visitors Report Problems through Screenshots

The Snagpbug widget will add a “help” button to your website and when visitors click this help button, they can not only send a message to your email address but they can also chose to include a screen capture of the web page with the message.

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6 points are worth noting:

1. Old is Gold – Experience matters!
2. Check their Page Rank
3. Avoid Black Hats
4. Search Company Feedback
5. Judge their Ability
6. Ask the King of Jungle

Detailed information on above points can be found in Manpreet’s post here.

Even though I personally believe SEO is something you can do on your own if you have just patience and some technical skills, SEO experts can prove good for non-tech-savvy bloggers/website owners.

Just in case, if you are using any popular CMS or blogging platform, then please try to go through its documentation or community forums. All popular CMSes and blogging platform supports SEO friendly website structure in core or via plugins. We also listed 4 plugins for better SEO of wordpress blogs, which can do wonders for your blog as part of our first wordpress plugin series.

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1. Screen Casts Rock – Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now – RRW showcases great Screen Casters
2. 7 Tips for New Twitter Users – From Shel (don’t forget my Twitter tips for Beginners)
3. Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? – Merlin Mann shares why he added a footer in his feeds to combat scrapers
4. Spam Blogs Republish Your RSS Feeds? Use this to your Advantage – on a similar theme to Merlin’s post – Amit Agarwal shares how to make sure you get some Google Juice if someone scrapes your feed
5. AdSense Click Tracking Data in Google Analytics Is Coming Soon – Amit also picks up this story which will be music to many AdSense publishers ears!
6. On Domain Names, Size and Quality DOES Matter! – Daniel releases some research that he’s done into domain names.
7. Blogger Sued for $20 Million for Calling Company a Scammer – Watch what you post!
8. Examining The Internet’s Top Blogs: What We Can Learn From their Success - SEOMoz does some great research into different aspects of 100 top blogs – even though they did say that I don’t own my own blog or register it as Australian
9. 5 Easy ways to Start a Productive Day – ever have those days where you get nothing done? Here’s some hints on how to start them better.
10. No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tool for Capturing Ideas Anywhere – LifeDev has written a post here that many bloggers will find useful. I’m enjoying Evernote these days.
11. Vote for my Proposed Panel at SXSW here – it’s on Responsible Blogger/Public Relations Interaction

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Tools we use on an almost daily basis:

Keyword Frequency (Sort by frequency and ignore stop words)
http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/density.asp

XML Sitemap Generator for Google Sitemaps:
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

CopyScape for finding out if you have duplicate content, or if someone is copying your content:
http://www.copyscape.com/

Anchor Text Analyzer (sometimes doesn’t work very well. We also use the allinanchor: search)
http://www.webuildpages.com/neat-o/

Nichebot – I use this for quick keyword research. It is not as good as some costly program, but as a free service it can’t be beat.
http://www.nichebot.com/

Check Server Headers to find out what kind of server a site is hosted on, and which redirects are in use.
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

Google Translate can be used as a proxy server (allows you to surf the web from a Google IP) which can be useful in determining whether your competition is cloaking for Google.
http://www.google.com/translate_t

The SEOMoz Page Strength tool isn’t something we use regularly – yet – but it is a fun tool that opens up new ideas for evaluating websites.
http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php

View bids on the Overture / Yahoo Ad Network
http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/

Find out the IP address of a domain
http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi

Find out what other sites are hosted on the same IP
http://www.seologs.com/ip-domains.html

Find out if someone is using your forms to inject html for link popularity
http://www.seoegghead.com/tools/scan-for-html-injection.php

The news feeds we subscribe to:

Inside Adwords (official Google AdWords)
http://adwords.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Matt Cutts Search Engine Engineer (Google)
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/feed/

Google Research Blog for Tech Geeks (official Google)
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/atom.xml

SEOMoz (Randfish’s blog)
http://www.seomoz.org/seomoz.xml

WebGuerrilla
(Greg Bosner’s blog – This link will be removed if he doesn’t start posting useful content again.)
http://www.webguerrilla.com/feed/

Yahoo Search Blog (official Yahoo)
http://www.ysearchblog.com/index.xml

JenSense Blog (Making Money with Affiliate Ads like Overture)
http://www.jensense.com/index.xml

Search Engine Roundtable
http://feeds.seroundtable.com/SearchEngineRoundtableFull.xml

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