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Darkstar is looking for a Front-End Developer. We are a small tight-knit creative team and have a lot of flexibility with everyone wearing a lot of hats. If you are searching for a not so corporate or more relaxed environment we may be the perfect match.

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Breaking the MMO

We've all heard of Blizzard's powerhouse MMO(massively multiplayer online) game, World of Warcraft. With somewhere around 10.2 million subscribers it's been a titan among other games that have tried to take it's throne. That might all change in the next coming months. Two very important games will be coming out for the online gaming world: The Secret World and Guild Wars 2.

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Twitter Comes to Senses, Goes Back to the "Old Way"

Almost two years ago, Twitter launched their so called #NewTwitter web platform. The Twitter developers claim that it provides them easier development paths and better performance, but I found it really annoying to use, because of the way it dynamically loads everything on the page from their REST API. My main peeves were the generally ridiculous load…

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Slant align text with jQuery

This is something that I’ve had to do a couple times recently. The bottom line is that there is no good way to do this. Until the W3 specs and browser engines allow for wrapping text around non-boxes, the best you’re going to be able to do is either add a bunch of &nbsp; entities and <br/> tags manually. But lets say you want to do this dynamically. Well, now we need some script help. The basic idea here is to break down the content inside the box into some bits we can move around make the text appear to flow according to the slant.

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What good is a website without any visitors?

SEO Marketing - What is it?

SEO Marketing drives more visitors to a website, via search engine results. This can be accomplished through natural programming or advertisement. A program often referred to as a "spider" is used to "crawl" websites searching for content pertinent to a keyword search. It indexes the content, ranks the site, and as a result moves the site higher on the search page!

Ideally, after strategizing,…

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Find Your Audience Online

A question that your business must answer, "Who wants to buy my stuff / services?"

The first step is always to define your audience and determine a keyword search that they would be listed under, like "cancer treatment", or "antique jeep".

There are a few online tools that will help you to define and track those customers in new ways.

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