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HTML 5 – Coming To Browser Near You?
Yes, HTML 5 is on its way!

Most of the hardcore web community already knows that there is a new standard coming our way. This new programming language and yes I think I can get away with calling it that now that they have added some true commands, not just tags anymore, is HMTL 5. Web standards and usability is ever evolving system and the standards we use to create web pages is getting ready to take a huge leap forward. HTML 5 will be the newest version of the popular Hyper Text Markup Language for web site developers to take advantage of in there web development arsenal. The whole package is still being put together and there are many new features, capabilities and extendability options being considered and added.

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HTML 5 will make use of some familiar XML standards to extend it’s usability and functionality. It looks like there may be some carry over from some other popular web programming languages like Java and PHP as well. HTML 5 may prove to be a very versatile programming language for web developers and webmasters.

This may actually become the web developers language of choice in the near future, at least that is what the pros at Google are saying. Google is so exited about the new features that HTML 5 will be bringing to the table that they have made public that they are no longer going to put development hours into there own Google Gears API, but rather start developing on the new HTML 5 platform instead!

If you want to learn more about the new standards that HTML 5 will be coming soon, we suggest the following resource, as they have been a leader in web standards and are the most trusted source out there as far as we are concerned.

W3 – HTML 5 Specification

We are obviously very exited about what these new changes are going to bring to the Internet in the following months and years and hope that you are too. We will keep this page updated with more news on HTML 5 as we receive it.

HTML 5 For Vimeo and Youtube!

Will it work cross browser?
The videos will work natively in Safari and Chrome (well, YouTube would certainly have to, wouldn’t it?). They’ll also work in IE if you have ChromeFrame installed (which we all know is cheating). If you’re using a browser that doesn’t support HTML5 video it will default back to the Flash method they currently employ.

Both YouTube and Vimeo use the H.264 codec to encode the videos — and that’s where things start to get complicated.

Since no official codec is defined in the spec because browser manufacturers have chosen to use different codecs to render HTML5 video. Opera and Mozilla use the Ogg Theora codec (more on that later), while Apple and Google use H.264. Who knows which side of the fence Microsoft will come down on, but I feel duty bound to mention that the licensors of the H.264 codec include both Microsoft and Apple.

There’s one major problem here: Ogg Theora, the open source video codec supported by both Firefox and Opera, is not supported on either site. It’s a shame these browsers aren’t supported, especially since Firefox 3.6 was released last week and announced support for full-screen video in its native video player.
Why use Ogg?

As previously stated, Ogg is an open source codec, meaning it’s free to use and implement. By contrast, support for native H.264 decoding in a browser costs approximately $5 million per year. (See summary of AVC/H.264 license terms [PDF].) It also seems that people creating H.264 content will be liable for royalties starting in 2011.

Far be it from me to get into the ins and outs of the debate over which codec to use, but it seems that open source would be the better way to go. Silivia Pfeiffer (a contractor for Mozilla) claims that serving as Ogg Theora will reach more people than serving as H264.

Google, on the other hand, which owns YouTube has said that Theora is not a good enough codec, claiming “If [youtube] were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the Internet”, a claim hotly (and convincingly) contested in Greg Maxwell’s YouTube / Ogg/Theora comparison.

YouTube and Vimeo seem to have discounted Ogg. I’d love to find out if there are other plans to add support for Firefox and Opera.

Ignoring the whole video codec debate, it leaves us in some ways back where we started — dealing with proprietary software or complicated licensing to create online content rather than using technologies that will allow us to have a truly open web.
With Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Opera not likely to budge on their respective codec choices for HTML5 video, we can only hope that the developers at market-leading sites like YouTube and Vimeo can implement cross-browser interoperable video just like Kroc Camen’s Video for Everybody. Judging by the aforementioned blog posts, both sites have more plans in the pipeline, which is encouraging.

The codec battles are only beginning, and we’re waiting to see which direction one big gun will point. Last year, Google (which owns YouTube) announced that is paying $104million for a company called On2 Technologies, “a leading creator of high-quality video compression technology” and which made the original VP3 codec which is the basis for Ogg Theora.

What are their plans? To release a “better” Theora-like codec into the community? We can only speculate.
Back to today. Although not perfect, these sites’ support for the element is still a massive leap forward for HTML5. Who knows — if more large sites continue to adopt HTML5, maybe it’ll be ready in 2010 rather than 2022!

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Your Website Design Sucks Because… Users Can’t Find Crap!

I know ayh! A great title to start of another year of C2.0 Web Design Blog! : -)

To kick off the new year in Web Design, I thought it would be best to go through a couple of my tell-tale signs that can help you gauge if and when your website’s design sucks. Obviously, “Website design” in this concept does not only include the graphical elements of the page, but of course the Information architecture, usability, accessibility, etc. So without further ado– Let’s get going with round one of “Your website design sucks because…” with Your website design sucks because users can’t find crap!
1. What the heck are you thinking?!

Whether or not you are running a corporate information site or a 15,000 page e-Commerce store- your content should be easy to find! The biggest problem is people think that you ALWAYS need a search box. Search on a website comes in many flavours, and sure; a search box would be awesome- as long as the results are easy to understand and filter to the right place. Having said that, not all great websites have search boxes or website search for that matter – but most if not all of them [great websites, that is] make the user experience worthwhile by making their content easy to find. Here are a few tips:

* If you are running a blog, make sure there is at least a way for the user to find an archive of all your content. After all, one of the main calling-cards, if you like – of a blog, is the fact that it is a chronological listing of posts or entries. Other important elements that help users searching for content is Tags and Categories. Try to make sure your posts only belong to one parent category. I.e. Not “Sydney Web Design” AND “Web Design” — after all, 99% of the time, one of the two (or more) categories makes the most sense. Tags help users by allowing to search for other posts which they might find interesting based on a common interest; i.e. Usability.

* If you are running a website; other than a web log , make sure that there is a common, geographical structure to your pages. I.e. there should always be the same header and footer on all pages – including any side-navigation or side elements. Doing this makes sure that users learn where things are and helps elevate any problems in looking for things all over your website.

2. Some conventional wisdom

Most webmasters and/or designers usually get search from a UI point of view under control. I mean come on! It’s basically three elements– A label “search for:”, a text box, usually pre-filled with “type query here” or something of the sort, and finally a “go/search/find” submit button… Easy, right? Wrong! Whilst the front-end features of site search are seen as simple, most websites/intranets (even the big players) crash and burn on the search results page.
3. A case study in Search Usability: Australia Post

Ahh, good old Australia Post! I love the fact that they deliver to anywhere in the world and the prices are not too bad — and I haven’t had anything major get lost whilst sending out *so far*. However, one thing that drives me insane about Australia Post is their website; http://www.austpost.com.au — not only is this website in need of a “major” overhaul. Let’s start with the essentials of this particular topic; Search.

The search on AustPost is located at: http://search.auspost.com.au. Nothing wrong with that so far- In fact, it’s smart to have search on either a sub-domain or a sub-folder at search.domain.com or domain.com/search. Moving right along. Oh wait! That domain does not work (Under Construction!!) unless you append the following to it: “/cse/auspost/” making the FULL-URI http://search.auspost.com.au/cse/auspost/ – Tsk, tsk AP!

If you type “test” in the search box and click the search button of the main page you get diverted to a search results page; which is okay so far– However, the diverted results page is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT website (in terms of overall look and feel). Check it out for yourself.
Australia Post Search Box – Main Page

Australia Post Search Box – Main Page

All good so far… Let’s see what happens when we get diverted to the ‘actual’ search page.
Australia Post Search Results Page – Search.austpost.com.au

Australia Post Search Results Page – Search.austpost.com.au

Oops! Something went completely wrong. Did I, as the user kill the site? Or is it meant to be a completely different site followed by a completely different user experience? [Both valid questions you don't need a visitor to your website, especially your search page asking!].

As Homer Simpson would say in a time of crisis; Doh! Different Logo, Different colour scheme, Different tab system, Different IA… Well, at least the logo is generally in the same place as before. Granted, I don’t know the reasoning behind this– Maybe they are in the process of moving sites across to a newer(?) design – but nonetheless, I think being a government corporation, this is pretty bad usability!
Anyway, let’s move right along… As if that first problem wasn’t bad enough, let’s see the search results form. Below is a screenshot of the “general” search form. By general search form I’m referring to the non-advanced variety!
Search Results Box

Search Results Box

Wow, okay — where to start, where to start. Let’s rattle off some of the issues with this search box/form.

1. Why have a “Show search options >>” as well as “‘Advanced Search”. That is not only confusing, but a waste of visual space/real estate. Why not make general search easy to use with no extra-ordinary features, and leave advanced search for those people that need to dig deeper into the data mine. Ahhh, I slowly started to realise why, and you will see why soon!

2. See the “Select All” and “Clear All” check boxes? They only select/deselect one option — and that is the “Australia Post Website” check box. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING AUSTPOST DESIGNERS/DEVELOPERS!!! Give me three good reasons why this is necessary on this page (in its current format) and I will stop using Facebook for a month… Okay, a week! :) Not only is this stupid from a usability/IA point of view, but it’s NOT needed here. Why?, you ask?

1. When you actually decide to click on “Search” you really DON’T end up having a choice in the matter, because the “Australia Post Website” check box is auto-ticked when the page has reloaded with the search results! Oh Oh!

2. It’s a waste of a control to begin with! The same thing could be easily achieved with one button which toggles through the selections. I.e. starts off as “Select all options” then changes to “De-select all options” upon click… However…

3. There is NO need for the control at all since there is NO other option/area to search from. I.e. If there was “Australia Post Website” and “Australia Post PO Box Search”, etc., then it would make sense — however, there is no other option!

3. The “Exact Phrase” check box control is USELESS in all formats of the word! In theory, the “Exact phrase” should let you search for the term “test” instead of the term test. What this ultimately means is that in reality, “Exact Phrase” should only find the search query if it exists EXACTLY in that format, and not part of other words, or as part of a phrase, etc. The only problem with this is that selecting “Exact Phrase” does NOT change the result set; in essence, returning the SAME number of results as well as in the same order! Yay for happy searching — Not!

4. Clicking “Show search options >>” reveals two fields/controls which are apparently meant to help the user whilst searching but not be enough to warrant the name “Advanced Search”. When you click this link, two new fields pop down; a) Format, and b) Modified. Fair enough, you say. They are letting the user choose what type of file format to search; i.e. PDF, Word, etc. as well as the ‘age’ of the document(s) in question or when they were last updated. So what’s the problem here? Let’s take a peek!
Search Results – Modified drop-down

Search Results – Modified drop-down

Wow! That’s probably the best word to describe this drop-down. Sure, Australia Post must feel great giving thier users so many options to choose from, but on what planet would you be from if you need THAT many options in sorting last modified periods? Surely, a) “Anytime”, b) Past 24 hours, c) Past week, d) Past month, and e) Past year – would suffice? No? Granularity of options is something worth your time as an Information architect or Website designer/developer investing in! The more options you give the user that they don’t necessarily need or will never use, the more they have to think. The experience should not make them think! Just give them results, and quick!

5. Don’t even get me started on the “Advanced Search” link! Let’s just say that it’s a little more advanced than what an “advanced search” needs to be. So much so that a PhD in Comp. Science would definitely help! I mean for Pete’s sake, there is a field called “Custom query” which lets you, quote “Create a query using search operators (and, or, not, near, quotes and parenthesis) and system fields.” unquote! WHAT THA?!?! Sure, I may get it, hell you might even get it as a developer or designer, but your average Joe who might need just that little bit more input into his or her search would most likely freak out! Take it off PLEASE! I’m not searching the CIA Central Repository here, people!

3. In conclusion…

Okay, so I must admit at this point in time that I’m getting a little bit more critical and more importantly a touch “harsher” in my blogging and reviews — but I think it’s important to look at problems like these that normal web browsers would AND DO encounter on a day-to-day basis surfing the Interweb! So hopefully you have picked up a few pointers from this blog post that will help you with your upcoming search page design/re-design. Remember, these are above all just some ideas of what not to do, but the field is huge! Make sure you get people with limited Internet experience to trial all software you create (if possible!) but more importantly, keep in mind some of these ideas for next time and I’m sure your users will thank you!

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Useful Tips for Effective Web Design

Listed below are some useful and rather important tips for designing a professional and high quality web site:

*Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them. Read our article on Web site Navigation Tips.

*Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site’s looks. Try to keep the focus on your content, use dreamweaver templates for this. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

* Program using pure CSS: The world is moving away from table based websites to pure CSS websites because it offers accessibility, reusability and considerably reduces file size apart from giving greater control over the look of your website. The single most important skill you can learn today to become a quality web designer is CSS programming! Even if you are not an expert at CSS you can learn to use the following simple CSS Styles Effects to enhance your website:

1. Cool Text Effects using CSS Styles: Text Links Rollover, Text Case Setting, Text Spacing, Line-through Effect.

2. Bullets in HTML or Deamweaver: Using CSS Styles with bullets (shapes, decimal, roman-numerals, images, etc.)

3. Links without Underline: Use CSS Styles to display links without the appearance of the underline.

*Optimum Load Time: Make sure your load time is low. For this you must:

Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely increase your file size.

Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your site doesn’t have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.

Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.

* Website Layout for all Screen Resolutions: A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn’t look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.
Read our article Designing for all Screen Resolutions for more.

*Ensure Web site scalability: Make sure your code and design is scalable. As technology advances and configuration of computers & their monitors keep increasing and varying it is impossible to test your site in all screen sizes and platforms.

*Cross Browser Compatible: Make sure you check your site for Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1+, Opera 7+, Safari 3+ and Netscape Navigator 6+ as they constitute 95% of the worlds browsers.

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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How To Get To Google Page 1 For Any Keyword

I did not have a clue how to get to Google page 1 for my best keywords when I started. I had just gotten out of my last advertising agency in New York City as a copywriter, I knew that keywords were a huge deal, and yet I did not have a clue how to find them, get the to where they needed to be, and then how to push them up to position #1 on Google page 1.

I sure do now.

And I really think that most business owners are where I was…in the not knowing place.

So let’s say that you are a financial planner in Chicago and you want to get traffic from people looking for that keyword or variations of it. And let’s further say that your website is simply not even listed on the first 8 pages of Google for that keyword.

What do you do?

Here are the three things we recommend every time:

Article Marketing

Use that exact keyword in an article that you publish to one or more of the best article sites. Use that keyword in the title of your article and in the content of the body of it. Be careful not to spam the keyword too often. Make 100% sure that your content reveals things that you know about your industry that adds value to your readers…make them want more. Put a single minded call to action in the resource box below the article and that’s it. Depending on the competitiveness of that keyword (how many other people are “after it” you will see it on Google in about 72 hours.

Video Marketing

Almost all those exact same rules apply here as they do in article marketing. Use the right keywords. Make sure your video is under 2 minutes. Do something at the 30 second mark that will be memorable (this will be your thumbnail on YouTube) and make sure you repeat the name of the website and show it during the length of the video. Also, wherever possible, try and use geo-targeting in your keywords (art dealer Albany) for even faster indexing.

Blogging

While the other two methods will get you there faster, this is something that you control IF YOU HOST THE BLOG YOURSELF. Same rules. Same emphasis on the keywords.

A REALLY QUICK ASIDE TO ALL THIS…

Let’s say that you do exactly as it says above or you outsource all of this and your keywords STILL do not appear on Google page 1, what then?

Then you must link to those articles, videos and blog posts from the best social sites, and you must do that as often as it takes.

Because if you really, I mean really understand the value of how to get to Google page 1 you will start to realize that you should be willing to do whatever it takes to get there.

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Monday, March 8, 2010

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SEO

S earch E Ngine O ptimization the “process” to increase the number of visitors by placing in the top positions of relevant keywords. Indeed, it is rare that people are interested in the pages beyond the third so you’ll want to put you on the first page, but above all we must optimize your site accordingly.

Choosing the right keywords Choosing the right keywords Keywords

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Focusing on the content

Make a website that your visitors can appreciate.

The content needs to attract people and bring them back for more.

Having original content is very important.

Equally it is important to have original content that have regularly updated content. New content will bring people and robots and you will be indexed much faster. Try to have something fresh for visitors and you should have a good result.

Get a domain name

The keywords in the domain have a huge weight on search engines, it may indicate your main theme. However, do not want to put too much. For my part, I hate the dash (-) in the domain to the dash can be a big advantage.

The extension of the domain name may be the last detail of that part Which We should pay attention if you want to create a website that ends with .com.

Choose a relevant title page under Page Title

The text in the title tag is the text that is displayed on the title bar of your browser is among the most important elements of a page.

While using keywords in your title text, try not to repeat keywords.

Meta data

The meta elements was used eons ago when the robots of search engines were less sophisticated. When this has been exploited by spammers, search engine spiders Began to give less importance to meta elements.

The appropriate use of tags

If you think some information is important, please put it in bold using strong. Bots tend to Enhance the text in bold, as we immediately see the text in bold. As always, use it sparingly.

Internal links and anchors

Link on the title section. Even on a Wordpress or Joomla is easy to change this detail most often in the subject.

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Monday, March 8, 2010

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Good Reasons Why Fresh Content Is Critical To Successful Seo

Gone are the days when men and women memorized web page URLs to get the information or provider they want. Using the exception of a few favorite internet websites like http://eBay.com, http://NBA.com, and http://CNN.com people have arrive to rely far more and additional on seek out engines to have to internet websites containing the information or service they need. Simply because of this, look for motor optimization has turn out to be an invaluable tool in web site pattern for people and firms being able to achieve their target audience. Not having research motor optimization, even a excellent web page would come across it hard to attain a incredibly wide audience.

Factors Affecting Page Rank

Look for engine optimization (Website positioning) is merely the process of increasing a internet site’s ranking in lookup motor results listing. According to an article by Website positioning professionals, the best ten ranking aspects that may influence a web document’s rank at the main search engines like Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves for a particular term or phrase are the following: Title Tag, Anchor Text of Links, Keyword Use in Document Text, Accessibility of Document, Links to Document from within the Site (Internal Pages), Primary Subject Matter of Site, External Links to Linking Pages, Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community, Global Link Popularity of Site, and Keyword Spamming. Note, however, that although keyword density does affect page rank it is often frowned on as is considered to become a questionable technique when it is over 10 to 20% the actual content since it appears being spamming then.

The Effect of Fresh Content in Search engine optimization

It is not enough for your web site to apply the other Seo techniques like meta tag optimization and link analysis. Fresh content, meaning relevant Rapid Mass Traffic content delivered on a regular basis is imperative to a successful Seo. Although not mentioned as one of the best ten ranking factor, one of the recurring elements affecting page rank mentioned in Search engine optimization articles is content. Not just any content but the freshness and consistency of content. Since it is a factor mentioned in many existing articles I’ve come across, common sense dictates that the freshness of content is indeed an important factor in page ranking. Major research engines like Google are known to rank pages not only according to the relevancy of the content but also according to how fresh the content is. Dated content can lower the page rank of an otherwise well designed website and ruin Search engine optimization efforts. A fresh content on the other hand will contribute to the success of seek out motor optimization.

Ways to Deliver Fresh Content on a Regular Basis

However for Search engine marketing to be successful the fresh content delivered by the internet site should be in a form that is readable to search engine. Ordinary content writers, of course wouldn’t know how to make their content readable by look for engines. The good news is that there is no special effort needed on the part of content writer to make their content readable by look for engines. All that is needed is a good dynamic, database driven content management system (CMS).

Content management systems might seem hard to manage but they are actually relatively easy once you get the hang of it and get past the learning stage. Learning to use them can, however, prove being tricky. It is best to have the help of web developers when setting up a website’s content management system. CMSs are however quite useful especially for internet websites with multiple users who can contribute to the site’s content. Mambo and PHPNuke are recommended for starters.

Another way to deliver fresh content at a regular basis is by using a weblog. Maintaining a weblog is an easy and cost effective way of updating your site. A good weblog should always be frequently updated, full of rich and informative articles, and should allow readers to post comments. According to an article by Matt Foster, aside from the ability to add fresh content regularly, a weblog integrated in your site will also achieve the following desirable outcomes:

• It will increase the amount of inbound links to your site
• It will increase the frequency at which the internet look for engines will spider or crawl your web page ( this is due to the frequent update in content )
• It will increase the interactivity for the web user; and
• It will ultimately improve your seek out motor ranking.

Two of examples of good easy to use blogging tools which will be integrated into internet sites are Blogger and Wordpress.

For those who are a bit additional tech savvy and know how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver is a pattern software that can help you update your web page with more control. With rapid mass traffic review you can add or change not only the written content but the whole look from color schemes to fonts and even the layout of your web site. But if you do not have a will need for such control over your website and feel a bit daunted by Dreamweaver, Macromedia Contribute would be a good option. There are, of course other style software out there, which you can use.

The Importance of Fresh Content Beyond Search engine optimization

After learning how to regularly deliver fresh content to optimize your website’s rank it is important to know that its importance and effect to your web page goes way beyond that. Aside from the success it contributes to Search engine marketing efforts, fresh content will not only get the site noticed by look for engines but is imperative in keeping the website audience. Folks usually go on the net not just for relevant data but for timely details as well. After the seek out engines show a web site as a result of the look for string and folks get to visit the site it is up to the fresh content to convince the folks to keep on coming back to the site. If the web page content is outdated and is updated rather infrequently and erratically, the chances of the target audience going back to the site on a regular basis, if at all, will be rather slim. Even the best Website positioning efforts will be wasted if the target audience decides that the website is not worth visiting. Therefore fresh content really is one of the keys to a successful Search engine marketing and thus a successful web site.

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Monday, March 8, 2010

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Check DNS Propagation

DNS propagation is a process that everybody who has anything to do with websites, domain names, mail servers, or other Internet services that need to be accessed online will go through at some point in time.

When you make modifications to your domain names DNS zones there is a delay between when you make the change and when they become available around the globe, this process is known as DNS Propagation can sometimes take up to 72 hours to fully complete. Waiting for propagation to occur can often be time consuming and can incur loss of traffic when incorrect DNS changes are made that are not caught early or when changes are made but are pushed out to users before they should be.

Due to this sometimes long time for DNS changes to fully propagate it can be quite beneficial to be able to check the state of DNS propagation on a bunch of servers which are located in different parts of the world.

When using whatsmydns.net, users are able to instantly check DNS propagation on a range of different servers located around the globe, these servers are located in the US, UK, Russia, China, Australia, New Zealand among others.

The ability to run a DNS Check on propagation has many advantages. One of the biggest is that if you have made changes to your DNS configuration that were incorrect, you will have the ability to check these changes on other servers so that you have the chance to catch and fix the problem before they becomes more widespread and affects more users around the world.

Another great benefit of DNS checking is that you can specify when events happen more precisely by, for example only advertising your new domain name when you know that it can be accessed by everyone in the world, or by switching your website over to use a new server only once propagation has occurred – there’s nothing worse than starting a new advertising campaign or switching server configurations only to have half of the world not able to access your website, or losing important emails.

whatsmydns.net allows you to check many different record types which is useful for when adding additional services to your hostname such as email or reverse lookups. Currently supported record types are A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR and TXT.

The best thing about whatsmydns.net is that it’s completely free to use, this means that anybody can have access to the website whether they’re just starting out on their first site or if they’re a large company who needs to check many DNS records daily.

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010

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Pros And Cons Of Flash-based Sites In The Business World

Flash-primarily based sites were very well-liked throughout the past few years with Web page designers in Alaska, however their popularity has been waning. Flash based mostly sites are disputed to be bloated and unnecessary by several Alaska Web designers and developers. Where exactly do we draw the line and how do we perceive what all the fuss is about those attractive, smooth-trying Web sites designed within the past many years?

Flash’s will an exceptionally good job of gap up a vast field of prospects never before potential with Internet deisgns. Programmers and Web designers have used Flash successfully to form interactve options ranging from very spirited feedback forms to attractive Flash-based learning curriculum. This whole new level of interactivity can always leave guests coming back back for additional if they are using a high-speed Web connection.

One criticism around the planet is that individuals have to download the Flash player in advance before they’ll read Flash movies. Thus, when your business’ Internet designers start using Flash, your visitor vary can decrease considerably as a result of not everybody can be willing to download the Flash player just to read your site. You’ll also have to put in additional work in redirecting the user to the Flash download page if she or he doesn’t have the player installed. Several folks hate downloading and putting in new plugins or addons merely to read the content from one Website.

When Alaska Web design companies implement Flash in their fancy, fashionable Web styles, site optimization conjointly becomes additional challenging and incredibly difficult to perform justice to your client. If your business’ Website content was presented in Flash, search engines are unable to index your content as a result of there’s not any “textual” content for the search engines to index properly and serve up question results. Hence, you will not be ready to rank well in search engines and there will be less traffic heading to your site.

For those Alaskan Internet users within the bush or in remote fishing villages, they may not tolerate the unbearable loading time required to read Flash content.

Users have to wait longer than usual to load Flash content compared to regular text and pictures, and a few guests may simply lose their patience and bail. There are lots sites with nice content that don’t need a lot of time to download and begin getting access to their content. The longer your business Internet web site’s Flash takes to load, the more you risk losing guests to your competitors.

In the opinion of the many Internet designers and developers, one ought to use Flash only once you absolutely would like the smooth, interactive action and motion that comes with it. Otherwise, Web designers advocate incorporating a mixture of Flash and HTML or use pure text. When your business’ Web site’s objective is to gift simple textual and graphical information, such as common information, one ought to continuously avoid Flash. However, if your business is serving content to your organizational users, like learning aides, they will be more tolerant of the slower performance. For example, making tutorials for ICAO hazard reporting system, one could use Flash as a result of users usually have access to high-speed internet connections and are also organizational users.

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Posted by freetraff    Date: Monday, March 1, 2010

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The Correct Way To Get Every Bit Of Your Internet Pages Indexed In The Big Engines Like Google

A website is additional than just a house web page. In truth, it really is helpful to think of a website as a cluster of mini websites, with every from the internal webpages being a full-fledged site. Based on the content material of these inner web pages, website visitors will enter your site by way of these “side doors” around the strength of search results queries that match the written content of these interior internet pages.

This can be wonderful news for you, especially if you’ve got plenty of websites with fascinating information. However, if these inner websites usually are not indexed in the look for engines, then you can not gain the advantages of all this “extra” visitors. Right here are some methods to take on to generate sure that all of the websites are “spidered” and integrated in the major look for engines. Abide by the route, read blog hatter 2010 and become rich and make your hopes and dreams come true once and for all!!

1. Very first, make a look at to establish your present indexing position

Commonly when a search results robot finds your main page, it’ll then abide by hyperlinks for a internal internet pages, and continue pursuing links until all of your websites have been indexed. If your site is well constructed, and search-engine friendly then all of this pages may perhaps already be indexed. You can find out how you might be carrying out by going to The internet, Yahoo or MSN and generating the subsequent search query: website:www.yoursite.com . The outcomes of this query will show you how quite a few of your respective pages are by now enclosed and which pages they are.

2. Strengthen the navigation program of your website to generate your hyperlinks search engine optimization friendly

If you do a examine and come across that only your main page or only a few of this internet pages are indexed as well as the rest usually are not, then it is essential to look at your hyperlink and navigation structure and to produce changes that should enable search results robots to come across and adhere to all of this links.

Hyperlinks to internal pages which might be contained during the java script of drop-down menus or as “hot spots” on graphics are much more challenging for spiders to recognize and stick to. If your internet site uses this sort of navigation structure, then it may perhaps be useful to add an additional word weblink navigation program in the bottom with the internet pages. This is not going to only help the search engine optimization robots, but will also give your readers another handy method to go on to the other websites of the internet site.

3. Construct an html web page map with text message backlinks to all of one’s internet pages

A web site map is a thing like a table of contents. Construct a internet web page utilizing your usual graphical and navigation, to ensure that it matches the rest of the web page. Inside the key information section of that web page, make a word link to every single of the websites, using the title tag of those webpages as the clickable weblink word, and putting the description tag with the page as text below the web page link. Placing the descriptive word under the hyperlink doesn’t affect the perform on the search engine optimization robots but it will help your website visitors to pick out which web page to click on.

Some on the net web page builder and web page construction software (such as Xsitepro) contain built in site-map generators. Should you have a very extremely large web page with many webpages then you’ll be able to obtain free online site-map generators or download application for this objective.

4. Participate in the The internet Sitemaps Program

Last year Search engines create the sitemaps routine to support webmasters make it easier for their site’s pages being identified by the The search engines spider. To participate, you have to construct an XML file with facts about every single of this site’s internet pages and upload this for the key directory of one’s website. XML files are the same types of files utilised in RSS syndication, but in this situation the XML file is meant only to offer information for the The search engines robot.

If you don’t know tips on how to make an XML file or you use a very huge site with hundreds of web pages it is best to use an XML sitemap generator. A no cost, on the net Search engines Sitemaps generator is usually determined at http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

Once you have made your XML sitemap and have uploaded it for a server, go to www.the internet.com/webmasters/sitemaps and set up a sitemaps account with The search engines. Once you log into your account you’ll see a tab on the top from the web page that says Add. Click it after which it test the box, add “General Web Sitemap”. You can be asked to put the url of one’s sitemap. Ordinarily the url of this sitemap is going to be http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

The Google sitemaps system is particularly crucial in case you use a significant, data base driven internet site or ecommerce internet site with numerous webpages that you would like for being out there in Yahoo and google searches. This really is beautifully tested in my Blog Hatter 2010 internet site, so you shouldn’t waste any further of this priceless time performing points that can in no way pays off and take on manage of today.

If you would like to enhance site visitors to your site, check and see how a lot of of the webpages have in fact been involved within the numerous look for engines, and then take steps to make confident that every bit of them are enclosed in future search engine updates. Your efforts to improve the search engine friendliness of your site will probably be well rewarded.

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