Archives for Month: August 2009 ::
Google's PageRank Explained
Posted on :: Aug 31
From here on in, we'll occasionally refer to PageRank as "PR".
How Google Sitelinks are Created and Managed...
Posted on :: Aug 31
Google shows sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow thier algorithms to find good sitelinks, or they don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, they won't show them.
At the moment, sitelinks are completely automated. They're working to improve thier sitelinks algorithms, and they may incorporate webmaster input in the future.Collecting User Statistics with JavaScript, and ColdFusion
Posted on :: Aug 28
This tutorial shows you how to gather and store user statistics, including Browser, Browser Version, Screen Width, Color Depth, Screen Height, Bit Rate and User Environment. Includes Browser Detection for IPhone, Blackberry, and Android-based mobile devices...
SEO URLS via ColdFusion
Posted on :: Aug 28
In this tutorial, I'm showing you a working method for URL Rewriting using ColdFusion, and a ColdFusion CFC.
You'll be able to have your old urls like: http://yoursite.com/index.cfm?var1=1&var2=2
to be viewed and displayed as: http://yoursite.com/index.cfm/var1/1/var2/2/OSX: Could Snow Leopard tip the scales for BYOPC?
Posted on :: Aug 27
Apple’s upcoming Snow Leopard OS will support Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Why is this important for BYOPC? Because until this release, BYOPC presumed some amount of virtualization (in most cases desktop virtualization) to support the killer app — email. According to the CNET article, “Improved Exchange support will be integrated into Mail, iCal and Address Book in Snow Leopard, which means email, calendar appointments, to-do lists and contacts from Outlook will be viewable on your personal calendar, mail and address books. It also allows things like dragging and dropping contacts into iCal to schedule meetings, and your Mac will be able to discover time conflicts between personal and work calendars and change the meeting time and location.”
Snow Leopard upgrade: what's in it for me?
Posted on :: Aug 27
I thought it was a nice touch on Apple’s part to deliver the update a few days early. But I’m still puzzled over exactly what’s in it for me. Apple’s Snow Leopard page is uncharacteristically modest, promising only that it will be “faster, more reliable, and easier to use” and will have some “new core technologies.”
Snow Leopard is really a major jump forward in terms of advanced hardware and software integration. It brings Grand Central, OpenCL, full 64-bit mode, and QuickTime X along with Exchange support and many tweaks. But many of these features are highly hardware-dependent, so not all Mac users will get everything.
Photoshop CS4:: Setting Photoshop to produce Div and CSS
Posted on :: Aug 19
Here is a very short tutorial on how you can set your photoshop to produce Divs and CSS rather than the old fashion tables. This is very useful becuase this is becoming the new way to work with web pages and lets you add a lot more room to do stuff that wouldnt be possible with non expandable tables.
In-context vs back-end authoring
Posted on :: Aug 18
Most modern content management systems provide two different ways of editing site content: in-context editing and back-end editing.
While in-context editing is often seen as ’sexier’, each method has its strengths and weaknesses. This briefing will explore these two editing options, providing advice on when to use them in practice.
When Competitors Cheat - How You Can Tell and What You Can Do About It
Posted on :: Aug 7
Not every company or website operates with a sense of integrity and ethics. When it comes to your competition, sometimes they take the easy way out and cheat when it comes to SEO tactics.
How Your Competition Cheats
Unfortunately, black hat SEO practices are out there. Black hat SEO uses spam techniques to increase PageRank (PR) quickly. It’s the equivalent to a “get-rich-quick” scheme. In the case of black hat SEO, it’s the “let’s get our site crawled and indexed FAST” scheme.
Your competition might be one of those unscrupulous companies who think black hat is the quickest and easiest way to bump their SERPs. It’s not a wise decision for your competition to take this risk, yet they still do it. If caught, they face permanent elimination from search engines.
Be on the look out for these unethical “spam” SEO practices:Windows 7 XP Mode
Posted on :: Aug 5
On August 4, Microsoft is making available to any and all interested testers the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows 7’s XP Mode add-on.
XP Mode is aimed primarily at small/mid-size business users (SMBs), and is designed to allow them to run legacy Windows XP applications on Windows 7 using virtualization technologies.
The release candidate of XP Mode will work on the Windows 7 Release Candidate and the final Windows 7 RTM bits. The XP Mode RC is avaiable for download from Microsoft’s Web site and consists of two components: A 5 MB Virtual PC file and a 450 MB copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3.
The final version of XP Mode will be available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate users on or around October 22, the day that Microsoft plans to make Windows 7 generally available. XP Mode, unlike some of Microsoft’s other virtualization offerings, does not require users to have a Software Assurance (SA) annuity license in order to get the bits.