Archive for April, 2008

What is the CSS property ” -moz-opacity: “

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I saw it in a script i copied once but it failed in the CSS validator.

I was wondering what it is for and is it a valid CSS property.
Is it the same as "opacity"?

Is it supported on all browsers?

Dynamat Install Photos

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Last time I posted about my install, but didn’t include any pictures. Since I put the carpet in already, I’m posting some pictures of other peoples cars using either Dynamat or Fatmat.

Fatmat Roof InstallDynamat floorDynamat 1956 Chevy Car

Need core of the site

Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I need completely working engine(core of the site, php) with possibility for me to accept payments from credit cards and webmoney, and with possibility to send money both to webmoney, and to banks(?) . And client registration and creating a database of clients, etc. should be obligatory. Once again, I need just the core, we will finish the site by ourselves.

Do you have an accessability checklist for your sites?

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I was going to apply the CSS style rule {outline:none} but I read in an article that
its better for accessability purposes not to do this.

Users who cant operate a mouse rely on the outline feature to navigate using the TAB key.

I was wondering what others thought about this and other accessability issues.

To what extent do you compromise functionality or appearance in order to meet accessability requirements?

What system for linking Navigation

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Hi guys,

I have a very basic but important question i need answered before i do any more sites.

When designing a site what xhtml system do you use for your navigational links. I have used server side includes when designing php sites and that works fine. Never used template design and snippets are to much work if i change something.

The reason i ask is i have worked for a long time really small sites just bundling my way through them updating links on every page when needed. I need to have a more efficiant way of updating nav links in my sites.

I now its a very basic question but i am a very simple person.

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Previewing 5 Orkut applications [del.icio.us]

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Some SEO Techniques

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
hello

Here are some SEO advices for beginners i can say.

First of all i have a SEO certification and been in this field for over 3 years. I can say that i don't like the time spent and that's why i hired someone. But before that here is what i have manage to learn:

1. Link Directories - Good only for PR (google case)
Example: I paid about 300$ for links on many directories, on PR3-5 pages. All good. When google crawled some of them the PR went to 1 or 2.
Conclusion - Don't waist your time too much and especially the money on those.

2. Social Bookmarking - 100 digs for some pages
Example: I had a Web 2.0 Design Tutorial website and got about 100 digs for some articles, technorati, del.icio.us and so on.
When checking backlinks digg.com showed only 5 of them.
Conclusion - Pretty good but make sure your article is 110% original.

3. Article Submission - 20 articles on "famous" article directories
Example: As i was writing the tutorials i thought "let's publish them".
Backlinks - very few after so much work

4. Link Exchange websites - Paid about 50$/monthly for 3 link exchange websites.
Example: I added my website to this websites and received about 400 links every month. I added a link exchange script with the "nofollow" attribute ON. I even added the disallow rule in .htaccess. All good so far.
After 3 months i got about 10 emails from different people asking me to remove their links because their sites were banned from Google.
Conclusion: Don't do this kind of link exchange.REALLY DON'T. Your link will end on a 100 link page which of course will end to banning from Google and who knows others too.

5. Paid Traffic - About 50$/monthly for as they said " 3000 unique visitors"
Example - Because i did not had the time to surf other websites i paid for this services.
Conclusion: Google Analytics was telling me that from 3000 visitors/monthly i got only 200 from that site.
Alexa was the only one who showed that i had heavy traffic. But if you don't pay for 1 month the Alexa rank will go down too. Don't waist your time with this.

Now for the good things.

Don't know if i am allowed to say which software i used to SEO my websites but if an admin or moderator tells me i can..i will of course mention it's name. The license costs between 250$-450$ depending on your needs.
Believe me it's really unbelievable and you learn a lot of things from it.

1. Always or at least monthly change your website keywords positioning
2. Put h1-h4 tags on your website
3. Bold or underline your keywords and again change things on a regularly basis
4. For script users make your URLS search engine friendly
5. Try and write articles directly on your site and add a social bookmarking script for people to bookmark
6. If you do link exchange make sure the website topic is similar to yours and check their page source for the "nofollow" attribute. If it's there delete their link.
7. Create a google and yahoo sitemap and submit it.
8. Changing or adding Content regularly of your website is NO2.SEO RULE
9. the NO.1 SEO rule is to have patience. Really it is.

I just launched a template store and i can say that it's on top google and yahoo for 10 keywords from about 35 mil pages. And i did not even submit it to digg or had a link exchange with anybody..so far
There are plenty of other methods but these are the start ones.

On May 1st, I am again self employed

Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Some of you may have known this, but here is my formal announcement. On May 1, I enter the world of self employment as an all around web ninja. I will be leaving my job as Developer at my current employer to work, privately, for both clients and agencies, under the business name of Boston Web Studio.

Please wish me luck, happiness, success, and sleep.

last visited page

Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Hi, i am very new to php but i wanted to do a simple thing

i wanted to find out what sites my visitors were being referred by, but i don't want to make a log or anything like that, i want to make it so that when they visit they get a displayed message saying something like 'welcome, you have been referred to us by www.whateversite.com

does anyone knw how this can be done

thank you

Please review new Web Design Tutorials Site

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Hi everyone,

I just launched a new site and I'd greatly appreciate any feedback that would help improve the overall experience, new ideas, etc.

Here's the URL:

http://www.createurwebsite.com

Thanks.