Jon Lee turned me on to this excellent…umm…informational video about web development. Kids, please listen to the nice rapper: Jon highlights the tips: Have a nice navigation Use appealing graphics (but use animations sparingly) Highlight your contact info Use correct color combinations Use divs, not tables! Use XML and CSS (on a separate sheet) Include [...]
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Why Don’t Web Hosts Offer Automatic Fail-over?
Published February 17th, 2008 in Webmaster. 1 CommentMark from 45n5 and ShowYourAdHere has been having some serious problems lately with hosting, and his recent post about Failover DNS really made me think. As Mark explains: There is a Dns Server that gets your request for a web page first. It takes the urladdress.com and resolves it to an ip address like 132.70.433.34 [...]
Artificially reducing the PageRank and importance of sites just because they’re selling links is absurd. I understand why they did it, but they’re not doing it the right way. For the love of God, they dinged Forbes something like 2 or 3 PageRanks. Are they any less of a reliable source just because they sell [...]
MySite Hosting for Beginners and Pros Alike
Published October 1st, 2007 in Internet, Sponsored Post and Webmaster. 1 CommentMySite.com is a low-cost website hosting solution for literally anybody. If you’re looking at starting up a WordPress blog but don’t want to spend a fortune on expensive hosting, they offer a specific “WordPress Blog” hosting package for only $4.95/month, which includes 2GB of disk space and 20GB of monthly bandwidth. Plenty for an up-and-coming [...]
Alexa Releases Sparky: The Official Toolbar for FireFox
Published July 19th, 2007 in Internet and Webmaster. ClosedWow, Alexa finally realized it was 2007 and released a toolbar for Firefox. Impressive. Now you have an alternative to the Search Status plugin, which was previously the only choice for Firefox users. Even then we weren’t really sure how much of an impact Search Status had on Alexa rankings, but it was our best [...]
So very true: Of course the big yellow slice is actually a bit larger. On a related note, read my recent post: A Note To Internet Explorer Users
