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Google
Talk Opens Up For All
No more Gmail account requirement - that was the biggest change to the Google
Talk registration process, as Google now feels confident enough to open the service
to anyone with a Google Account.
YouTube
Buyer Would Be A "Moron"
Mark Cuban had more criticisms for prospective buyers of popular video sharing
site YouTube, due to the site's continual use by people for posting copyrighted
works without permission.
Local
Search Led By Google, Yahoo
Those two Internet players own nearly 60 percent of the local search market, which
continues to grow at a strong pace.
HP
Ripped By Congress Over Spying
CEO Mark Hurd, ex-board chairman Patricia Dunn, and former general counsel Ann
Baskins were among the Hewlett-Packard employees who were lambasted by Congress
for their roles in a spying scandal...
Microsoft
Responds On Open XML Complaint
The issue of Office Open XML formats interoperability with other applications
moved a network administrator to post a substantial critique of Microsoft's efforts.
In turn, a Microsoft Office program manager replied...
Google
Says No To Brazilian Judge
A Brazilian federal court wants Google to hand over data about users of the Brazilian
Orkut service, but Google will respond with a brief that refuses the request.
Google
Celebrates, Forecasts, And Routes
The search advertising company turned eight years old, and also dropped updates
into its Calendar and Transit products. Should we talk about the weather?
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Friday September 29, 2006 |
They are actually more like guidelines, really, but the blogger behind 33rockers
did a nice job of assembling Ten Commandments of web design for new and experienced
webmasters alike.
Editor's Note: When it comes to designing a website, there are a few things webmasters should do. Avoiding "false code" has been suggested as one of them. Is there anything else you can think of to add to this list? Let us know at WebProWorld.
 The
notes on the 33rockers
blog by Karthik Kastury suggest an approach that advocates of agile
computing should recognize. The tips focus on quickly and effectively placing
information in front of the visitor regardless of the visitor's browser and computer.
Kastury goes with the Ten Commandments theme in titling each section of the post, and it's a lot more fun to read if you say it to yourself in a powerful Charlton Heston voice.
Everything on a website should have a purpose for being there, Kastury noted first. Anything, any element that does not fit that purpose needs to go. Consistency matter as well, and a style sheet can manage that.
The site should be lightweight and fast to load. Even with the number of broadband connections increasing in the US and abroad, people still want websites to leap gazelle-like into their browsers.
Our readers will appreciate number five - thou shalt respect the search engines:
If you want search engine traffic use whole web pages that don't incorporate frames or large amounts of code unrelated to your content. Also, if you want search traffic, actively cultivate linking relationships with related sites and operate a blog.
Let's not forget the potential for divine retribution from spam avengers like Matt Cutts at Google, as well as other search sites.
Staying on purpose would mean eschewing that Flash page serving as the portal to the rest of the site. Sideways scrolling should be avoided too, Kastury recommends.
A suggestion about code for the site will provoke some discussion:
You should only use html, PHP or ASP to create your web pages. Never use java, xml, dhtml or other forms of code that require a surfer to keep their browser set up "correctly" to accommodate your page. Unless you sell to "geeks" and "techno-nerds," this will only lose you visitors and won't make you any friends.
Aside from Java, modern browsers already handle XML and DHTML (aka Ajax) pretty well. Java has become widely used to the point where most users probably do have a JVM on their machines.
Kastury's post makes for an interesting read, and the suggestions within it should be helpful to webmasters.
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 By
Jason Lee Miller
The first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, Calif., kicks
off today with an all-star lineup of speakers and experts on the new media form
of podcasting. WebProNews made the 2,100-mile trek to glean all we can from this
emergent medium.
Once I unfolded myself and got off the plane (thanks, Delta! Did you buy that plane from Japan Airlines?), I caught up with our videographer, Richard, Thursday afternoon and we hoofed it to the convention center to check out the set up, and to mingle with sponsors, speakers and exhibitors at the pre-show meet-and-greet.
A casual and friendly Larry LaCost, of the Daily Journal, a small newspaper outside of Chicago, met us at the door. Larry has produced over 150 podcasts in conjunction with the newspaper, and will be speaking today, alongside other newspaper representatives, about how to intermix podcasts with print news.
The striking thing so far about the convention is the sheer variety of people and interests represented. A myriad of industries are utilizing the medium to further their companies' and organizations' presence on the Web, for interactive promotional purposes, for entertainment (or "infotainment"), or for educational purposes.
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Can Design Impact Search Rankings?
Can the way you design your site impact the way your site ranks in the search
engines (in this situation, I'm talking about above-the-board design techniques.
Flash is not included in this hypothetical), specifically, using tables versus
sites done without. In other words, will CSS-designed sites rank higher than sites
including tables? While it's true certain design aspects (mainly blackhat SEO
methods) can result in penalties, I've not heard of one style outranking the other.
How about you? Let us know what you think about designing with search engines
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Tableless Web Design Versus SEO
Does tableless webdesign helps in getting better results in Google and other Search
Engines? We have a new webdesigner, and today he suggested to start working without
tables, as he says this would already increase the results in Google without having
to do an additional SEO-service.
What are your thoughts on this? Can tableless
webdesign be considered as a standard SEO-service? That way, the tableless
webdesign service could be considered as a "silver SEO package" and the additional
SEO-service as the "gold SEO package".
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