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| Newsletter Archive 2008
Make Your Websites Completely Compliant
I was looking at XHTML and accessibility standards for BlogEngine.NEXT and found something I haven't noticed before in the W3C specs. I came across some rules about specifying the default script and style sheet language when trying out the Total Validator.
Date: 2008-12-30
Translating Site Ranking Into Traffic
Anybody who has been online for any length of time, and has had any success with achieving good search engine placement, knows one thing: Rankings are not cast in iron. In fact they are very fluid. Sometimes you can hold onto a top spot for years, other times you're constantly battling to stay on the first page. That's just the nature of search engine algorithms.
Date: 2008-12-09
Using Alt And Title Tags Properly With Images
A lot of discussion has been going on at one of the threads at the Google Groups as to how one should use the alt attribute and title attribute for the web page images. Google explains that one should use them as per W3C recommendations.
Date: 2008-11-18
Making SEO Work For You
Organizing your keywords into an effective marketing strategy is the most important of the four phases of keyword research outlined in this document. While most often SEOs and keyword researchers focus on the research phases, organizing your keyword properly can truly help you create a vastly more successful optimization and marketing campaign.
Date: 2008-11-04
SOA Skillset Platform Neutral Developers
I have discussed the role of the SOA Evangelist and the importance of the architects. Today I will discuss the different developer roles and the characteristics that make a successful SOA developer.
Date: 2008-10-20
IT Solutions for Tough Financial Times
A Managed Rackspace Server is a single, affordable line item in your budget that gives you more value than a list of costly hardware expenditures and payroll expenses. You don't have to worry about upfront and on-going capital expenditures because we own and manage the servers, devices and network for you.
Date: 2008-10-16
How To Use Link TITLEs Correctly!
A recent post was surfaced in Search Engine Journal by Ann Smarty. According to the post, it was stated that, "Using link TITLE attributes has become more popular since the rise of such widely used scripts as WordPress which by default duplicates the post title link in its TITLE attribute. Still, despite being the common behavior, this method of using TITLE attribute is both not right and annoying.
Date: 2008-09-16
Google's New Custom 404 Page Creator
Google has launched a new tool in their Webmaster Tools suite that allows website owners to create custom 404 pages. 404 pages are those that don't exist and therefore return a "not found" error when users try to view them in their web browser.
Date: 2008-08-26
Experience Hosting at It's Best
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Date: 2008-08-14
AdWords Report Changes Coming
API update hits on August 19. Updates to the AdWords API arriving on August 19 mean developers will want to make sure they don't impact the data in their reports. Using the AdWords API's getReportDownloadUrl() or getGzipReportDownloadUrl() method? You'll want to catch up with the latest out of Google about those..
Date: 2008-08-05
Developing Apps For The IPhone
Yesterday I visited two iPhone developers to see how things went. First we visited Evernote, which makes a great note-taking app. This is the most useful app I've loaded on my iPhone so far (which has more than 30 apps loaded on it). Really killer thing? Take a picture of something with text in it. .
Date: 2008-07-15
Is Bloated Code Jacking Up Your SEO?
There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not.
When it comes to analyzing your pages for search engine rankings, none of that really matters a whole lot.
Date: 2008-06-26
Cost-Effective Hosting Solutions Without Sacrificing Speed
Every provider will tell you how great their servers, support, uptime, expertise and guarantees are. Take a close look. What they're really offering you is nothing close to what Rackspace does. See for yourself.
Date: 2008-06-23
Facebook’s Developer Platform Will Go (mostly) Open Source
Facebook is going to be offering numerous additions to its developer platform in the coming weeks. First there were the rumors, then the generic confirmation: Facebook's developer platform will go (mostly) open source.
Date: 2008-06-03
Google Announces Its Plans To Launch 'Friend Connect'
In an effort to join the field of social network data portability, Google has announced its plans to launch 'Friend Connect'. This feature will enable website owners to grow traffic by taking profile information from social networking websites and putting that information onto third party websites.
Date: 2008-05-13
Participate In The Open Source Census
Just read about the launch of "The Open Source Census". This is the next step in OpenLogic's efforts to get a better sense of which OSS products are actually used in enterprises. Until now, the OSS product usage data we've seen has been from surveys of people who likely don't know the extent of OSS usage across their company.
Date: 2008-04-22
RIA Vendor Curl Shifts To Eclipse
Rich Internet Application (RIA) vendor Curl, named InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year in the RIA category, announced that they will be rebasing the Curl IDE on Eclipse. The Eclipse-based product, named Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE) is expected to Beta in mid-2008.
Date: 2008-04-08
Open Source BlueDragon
In a move that has surprised some folks, New Atlanta has announced plans to create a free open source version of their J2EE BlueDragon product. They will continue to develop, sell and support a commercial version of it, as well as continuing the .NET version and the standalone JX version (neither of which will be open sourced).
Date: 2008-03-11
BlackBerry Developer Tools - Smart Tools for Smart Developers
Developer tools you need to quickly and efficiently get your work done. These free downloads from Research in Motion will give you the edge you need to succeed.
Date: 2008-02-28
Rackspace: Let IT Hosting Change the Way You Work
No more stretching yourself thin trying to keep up with your endless IT to-do-list. That's the beauty of IT Hosting and Fanatical Support® from Rackspace. We become an extension of your IT department, hosting your servers and supporting them around the clock so they stay up and running. You don't even have to think about the servers, let alone do a thing to support them.
Date: 2008-02-21
A First Look At Grails
There's still a lot of buzz about Ruby on Rails and I've played around with it but I really don't like the Ruby syntax. I've tried a few different Rails packages and just find the experience... clunky. Lots of people are very excited about Rails and Ruby in general, especially with JRuby (Ruby for Java) now running Rails.
Date: 2008-02-13
Using CSS To Place Images
Yellow post it notes are cool and a really good way to get someone's attention, don't you think? I had in my disposal the transparent png solution for IE using CSS so all I needed was a cool graphic and a way to position it anywhere on a page using just CSS.
Date: 2008-01-15
Rackspace: Taking the next Green step in IT Hosting
Take the environmentally friendly components we already use—low voltage processors, plus energy efficient drives and RAM. Put them all together so our configurations will run even greener. And then make it simple for people to choose the green configuration or customize one that works for them. It's not revolutionary, but it's smarter and better for the world and our customers.
Date: 2008-01-10
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