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8 Search Engine Friendly Web Design Tips

  1. Make meta tags relevant to the web page – not specifically to the site
  2. Add ALT attributes to images and make sure it describes the image
  3. Add Title attributes to links and make sure it describes the link and its function
  4. Have content that changes periodically – blog or news feeds can add dynamic and relevant content
  5. Flash-based content and sites with a lot of images are difficult
  6. Use the Google / Yahoo site manager tools
    ( http://google.com/webmasters/tools ) or ( http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com )
  7. Use a good stat services like StatCounter.com or Google Analytics
  8. Keep to W3C standards ( http://validator.w3.org )

    Note: A good web developer will not charge extra for most of these points.  A site is worthless unless setup properly for search engines.

I am back – Whoo Whoo!

Despite the Blogger’s removal of FTP support, I have been able to continue using my blog. I have created my own ATOM feed interpretor. It was pretty easy to do in ASP.NET. Look for my future blog on how to perform the integration. Thanks to all who follow me and thanks for your patience.

~ Andrew

Blogger Removes FTP support

Well, it has happened. Blogger is pulling its FTP support. This means that this is my last post of this kind. I will be updating my blog portion of my site with a different technology unless blogger creates something new.

If this portion is down, it is because blogger removed its service that I used.

Sorry for any issues.

8 Firefox Plugins

Tonight I have assembled a list of 8 Firefox Plug-ins that either make my development life easier or simply add a little flair to my web surfing.  Each plug-in is my own choice and is not a paid endorsement.  These are all free.

IE TAB
Emulates the Internet Explorer rendering engine
Website

InterClue
Preview links before clicking on them
Website

Colorful Tabs
Colors tabs to make each unique
Website

ColorZilla
Advanced eyedropper that allows you to select colors from web pages
Website

Cooliris
3D wall for searching and viewing archives
Website

Download Helper
Allows you to download your favorite media including YouTube videos
Website

FireBug
Web Development Tool
Website

FireShot
Screen shot of the current page. Allows user to add annotations easily.
Website

I am not the WhozaDog.com creator

There has been a rash of discussions about “a” Andrew Pallant who is the creator the of WhozaDog.com website.  I am not that same person.  While we share the same name, we do not share the same outlook on life.  Please be aware that there is more than one person with the same name.  I am going on record to say I am not in anyway associated to the Andrew Pallant who created the WhozDog.com site or associated to the site is self which is Australian based.

Rippers

People from all over the world have used software to steal or copy websites.  If you are using statcounter.com you may see in the browser column “Ripper” or “Rippers 0” or something in a similar naming convention.  To prevent some of this activity you can try the following javascript code that I have found on the statcounter.com forums.

var browser_type=navigator.appName
var browser_version=parseInt(navigator.appVersion)
if (browser_type==”Rippers”&&browser_version>=0)
window.location.replace(“http://www.google.com”)

It appears to work for me.