Feb 28, 2007

I was asked the other day if search engines favor a .html file extension versus a .php file extension? The answer I gave the client was no, it makes no difference, search engines will index pages with both file extensions the same, but there are some things that can make

Feb 28, 2007

There are a great deal of directories out there. How do you know which ones are worth submitting your website to and which ones are not worth your time. If your goal is to increase the number of links back to your website, and possibly your PageRank, you should look

Feb 26, 2007

It happened to me again. I updated a site and did not go and check what it looked like in an older version of Internet Explorer on Windows 98. It does not matter how long you have been doing web updates, and how simple the updates are, somethings just do

Feb 25, 2007

I was stumbling along today and kept running across Digg stories. The first was about the "Digg mafia" spamming the Yahoo suggestion board. The second article was similar, talking about the "Digg mafia" and why it will cost Keven Rose millions. That article had an interesting graph of Digg traffic

Feb 23, 2007

I suppose I am a little old school when it comes to writing html and css because I prefer to do it by hand. I use a decent programming editor with syntax highlighting and with tag helps, but I prefer to see the code. Not everyone is like me, so

Feb 22, 2007

I was reminded today when I visited the Google Adsense blog that Google has some interesting wizards that you can use to add ajax addons on your website. The Adsense blog was talking about a news bar, but there is also map search, video bar, video search, and book bar

Feb 22, 2007

I have been working on a website that uses Ajax calls to dynamically load content into the same page with out refreshing. One of the reasons Ajax was chosen was to create a user experience similar to a flash website. The site appears very smooth, and is as close to

Feb 21, 2007

I use Blogger for this blog, mainly because it is easy to use. One of the features of the new Blogger that I like is the ability to add labels to posts, but because I publish via FTP there is no way to use the labels widget that is available

Feb 20, 2007

Most people don't realize that there website can found by using both www.mywebsite.com and mywebsite.com. Why is this important? The search engines will index both the www site and the non-www site, providing the search engine an identical set of pages which could lead to a penalty. While most search

Feb 18, 2007

It never fails, as soon as you write something you end up finding another tool that you should have included. This color tool is from the undisputed master of graphics, Adobe. Kuler is from Adobe labs and allows people view color combinations that others have created online. You can narrow