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Buzzle.com on Search Engine Optimization

There are some pretty good SEO suggestions in a recent article on SEO by Buzzle.com

Essentially it’s the same old tips:

  • Update content regularly
  • Relevant inbound links
  • Click through rates
  • etc..

With some interesting new tips (recent developments/stuff I haven’t heard before. Notably:

  • How many years you have registered your domain name for
  • Spam tactics are starting to work against you

Essentially, it sounds like what I have always said holds true (and is increasing in true-ness): Google will rank you where you are supposed to be ranked.

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Posted June 13th, 2005 in Web Design by Matt

Web Design Axioms

Over the last 5.5 years as a Web developer, I have picked up several “axioms” that have made my job easier. Today I was reminded of two of them while helping a friend work through some layout issues.

Josh Cramer’s First Rule Of Web Design:

“It only does what you tell it to do.”

Josh was my one of my early mentors as a fledgling Web designer in the private sector (I had worked in higher education for a little while before that, learning rudimentary basics of programming and HTML). I’m not sure he realized the wisdom he was uttering. I think he was just exasperated with us young know-nothing programmers complaining about how we couldn’t figure out the bugs in our code.

But you know, it’s a simple, “no duh” statement that is utterly true. If you are having “problems with a browser”, don’t blame your browser (except for IE, blame IE all you want). Blame your markup. Which brings me to a second axiom I picked up along the way.

Matt’s Second Rule of Web Design:

When in doubt, validate.

I have no idea who said it first (I’m giving this one to Dave), but it is insanely useful to me. That is, it gets newbie Web developers (hehe… sorry Salem…) off my back while I’m working.

I often find myself in the position of helping fledgling Web designers figure out how actually write HTML. Not only does this axiom save me time, it teaches them how to fix their own bugs, and helps them learn proper markup.

I think these two axioms are akin to Mr. Miyagi’s “wax on, wax off.”: simplistic, and frustrating for a new Web designer, but they teach you core principles of Web design while following them.

Do you have any other “Axioms” that you work by?

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Posted June 9th, 2005 in Web Design by Matt

Clever Virus…

Got this in my inbox today:

Turn on your TV. Osama Bin Laden has been captured. While CNN has no pictures at this point of time, the military channel (PPV) released some pictures. I managed to capture a couple of these pictures off my TV. Ive attached a slideshow containing all the pictures I managed to capture. I apologize for the low quality, its the best I could do at this point of time. Hopefully CNN will have pictures and a video soon. God bless the USA! Edna Ott

The e-mail contained a .zip file that, when unpacked has a .scr file.

This is most likely a variant of the W32/Kickin@MM virus, and is definitely not photos of a captured Bin Laden, which as of yet, hasn’t shown up on any news sites or TV channels.

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Posted June 2nd, 2005 in Everything Else by Matt

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