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The Flyer Wall

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

After The Million Dollar Homepage (MDH) made a million dollars, copycat websites sprung up all over the place. Most of those sites had poorly conceived gimmicks and none of them were ever able to recreate the success that the MDH had. As with most good ideas that have run their course, there always seems to [...]

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Google Sitemaps Provides Penalization Notification and an Updated Design

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

It’s been a long time coming, but Google has finally found a channel to communicate with webmasters — Google Sitemaps.
One of the biggest frustrations for webmasters is when your website drops or disappears from Google’s index. The only way to find out if your website has been penalized is to go through the process of [...]

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Sitening Launches Backlink Analyzer for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 21, 2006 — Sitening has launched Backlink Analyzer to complement their suite of search engine optimization tools. This free tool can be accessed on Sitening’s website at: http://www.sitening.com/tools/backlink-analyzer/.
Backlinks, which are also known as incoming links, are important for search engine optimization. Search engines use the number of backlinks that a website has [...]

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Sitening Launches Intern Program

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 21, 2006 — Sitening has launched an internship program to help new programmers gain hands-on, practical experience by assisting with internal web development projects.
Internships are project-based; Sitening provides a list of potential projects for interns to choose and focus on. Interns have the opportunity to work closely with the development team, designers [...]

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How To Make Good Looking Forms Using CSS

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Last year, Jon wrote about the benefits of designing for the web using standards based CSS techniques (i.e. no tables). He did a great job at discussing the benefits so there’s no need for me to rehash them here. However, one line in particular caught my attention. He says

The main argument for still using tables [...]

Posted in CSS, How To, Web Design | 8 Comments »

SERP Tracker Adds RSS Feeds

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Tracking search engine results pages (SERPs) just got a little easier. SERP Tracker, a free online tool from Sitening used for tracking SERPs, now supports RSS Feeds for any domain.
To access the RSS Feed, click on a website and look for the RSS icon and link located in the upper right section of your browser [...]

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First Look At Google Spreadsheets - Plus Screenshots and Screencast

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

We got our invite early this morning and started to play around in Google Spreadsheets. The first thing we tried was opening an Excel spreadsheet. To do that you click on File and then Open (no surprise there). A modal window appears and provides a Browse button to open your spreadsheet file. Similar to attaching [...]

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Google Gets Closer to Destroying Microsoft Office

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Whether you’re aware of it or not, Google has quietly and slowly been rolling out their Microsoft Office killer. It probably all started with Gmail, but has continued with the release of Google Calendar, the purchase of Writely and now the imminent release of Google Spreadsheets. Here’s a sneak peek at Google Spreadsheets.

Creating spreadsheets
Create basic [...]

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Sitening As Seen Through the HTML DOM Visualizer

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Boredom and intrigue led me to the Websites as graphs tool. Here’s a graph of the Sitening home page.
What do the colors mean?

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks [...]

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Getting Real With Databases in PHP

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

It’s no secret that I don’t like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web apps running on Rails, but the framework just doesn’t fit with my development style. I like [...]

Posted in Commentary, Databases, How To, MySQL, Open Source, PHP, Programming, Ruby | 10 Comments »