Who done it, with what, and where? Was it A) Microsoft, inside their security deficient, sub-standard browser with an over-hyped search engine? Was it B) Apple at its elitist developer conference with an exploding iPhone app? Was it C) Google in a YouTube video with a poison drop of lonelygirl15‘s …
Read More »How Accurate Are Alexa Rankings?
Last week, I discussed how Google PageRank is essentially a useless figure. Another popular metric used for comparing website and expired domain traffic, Alexa ranking, is also of dubious value. Alexa rank is easy to understand. It is a simple number that pits your website against the rest of the …
Read More »How I started my own web host (Part 1)
Ten years ago, I had a life-changing experience, one that I wanted to share with the world. The world wide web was still in its early years, but being both a writer and someone who loved trying new technology, I decided to make my first web page. What began as …
Read More »Opera CEO: HTML 5 will make Adobe Flash unnecessary
The makers of three major web browsers, Opera, Apple, and Mozilla have been working to ensure that the next version of HTML will include many advances in audio and video integration, something that has become the mainstay of Adobe Flash. The trio forms part of an organization called Web-Hypertext Application …
Read More »Who Knew <i>That</i> About Blogging?
Every year, blog search engine Technorati publishes the State of the Blogosphere. Though the report has been out for some time, I find myself going back to it from time to time because it has so much information about blogging: Bloggers write nearly one million posts per day collectively. Mean …
Read More »Top Free Content Management Systems
Content management systems (CMSs) are great for websites of all shapes and sizes. They not only drastically reduce the amount of hardcode HTML editing needed to keep a website up-to-date, but are also easy to modify with add-ons and themes. Do a quick web search, though, and you’ll find there …
Read More »Benefits of using a content management system (CMS)
There was a time when having a web site meant having a single HTML page with text, links, and maybe a few low resolution pictures. Even professional organizations did not put much thought into design. Any time a site needed updating, it was up to a webmaster to edit HTML …
Read More »Contest Challenges Competitors to Create Website in 24 Hours
Could you create a fully functional website from scratch in 24 hours? That’s what two teams from Austria and New Zealand will be doing May 12-13 at CeBIT 09 in Syndey. Each of the two teams is allowed six members: a manager, user experience advocate, graphic designer, HTML/CSS coder, programmer, …
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