The world of SEO bothers me. I was recently surfing the web and stumbled accross some random blogs and websites that advised against linking too often; and advised to use the rel="nofollow"?property for anchor tags. This advice seemed absolutely contradictory to the entire pagerank system as a whole. If the amount of links to a website is a measure of the quality of the content, then using nofollow is essentially cheating the system. Nofollow has its place in user-generated content, but the creator of a website should always link without nofollow when they intend to link....
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| October 23, 2008 at 10:46am
Anyone making websites has to start from somewhere and most of the time that "somewhere" is another website. By taking inspiration, your keystrokes should never come close to Ctrl+C; however, use what you see to create something that you like. Minimalist designs are a new trend - following the Web 2.0 craze - that emphasizes a separation from the cluttered and visually gaudy cliches associated with the typical idea of modern design. The following are 15 great sources of inspiration for creating a cleaner appearance for your site. Each of these websites serves a different purpose to its creator, ...
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| September 15, 2008 at 7:25pm
Gaming is heading down a slippery downhill slalom of graphical performance and gimmicks. Every console is guilty of it, and if gaming must be truly renewed as a form of expression, then changes must be made....
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| September 10, 2008 at 7:25pm
The new RSS reader that popped up on my daily radar for cool stuff was Gregarius, an RSS reader that runs on your own web server using PHP, MySQL or SQLite. These kinds of tools are especially useful in conjunction with things like XAMPP for a localized and faster experience. The essential software is based on the Magpie parser and it packs a mean lean interface that I enjoy....
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| August 17, 2008 at 3:55pm
I wrote a post not too long ago about Firebug, Dragonfly, and the developer tools the web development community has grown to love and appreciate. Firebug, Dragonfly, Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, and that thing on Safari all share one thing in common: they are extension of their corresponding browsers and when testing on a different browser it is often times hard to find the plugin needed, or tedious to get accustomed to a new interface. When things get dry in cross-browser bug fixing and DOM/CSS inspection, the new smaller kid in town is planning on saving the day - Firebug ...
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| July 29, 2008 at 7:58pm