Category Archives: Web

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What’s happening in the world of Google today? Everything you need to know about the world’s favourite search engine!

Stu’s Site has some amazing examples of CSS code and ingenuity!

This is a nasty way to get your Google ranking up! Copy content from your competitors sites and once you have a higher Google ranking than them Google will discard your competitor’s sites because of the duplicate rule.

This tactic suggests to me at least two major dangers – the first is that your competitors can copy your site, cloak it, and possibly knock your site out with Google’s duplicate content filter. I’m looking into this more, so don’t get all worried. I’m not sure how widespread or dangerous this could be.

Now this looks very interesting – DomainKeys is a method for verifying email. It uses a public/private key infrastructure to verify the domain an email was sent from. Public keys are distributed by DNS.
Yahoo! has been granted a patent on the framework which annoys some but their license terms seems rather liberal, even allowing one to “yodel” it if that’s how your smtp works!
More: Jeremy, Simon, and Justin.
Several excellent comments on Jeremy’s site, including a link to Sender Policy Framework, a very similar technique already in use by the likes of AOL, Altavista and others. (I knew I’d seen idea this before!)

So, I want to “do something” when someone mouse-overs parts of an image. How? This answers that question nicely methinks! Should have thought of it myself but had my head stuck in other business all day!

<area shape=”rect” coords=”15,15,85,85″ href=”default.htm” onMouseOver=”do_something()”></area>

Now, this competition looks interesting! There’s an iPod and a 17″ LCD to go to the winner so maybe I should get my SEO hat on!
This Google Search will be one to watch over the next few weeks!
(See! I managed to avoid mentioning nigritude ultramarine for the whole of this post! Oh. Doh!)

Does anyone else have problems sending commands to a running instance of Mozilla Firefox?
I want Thunderbird to open links in new Firefox tabs but the following command fails:

$ mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org, new-tab)"
Failed to send command.
$

If I don’t include a URL then a dialog pops up asking for one but that’s hardly what I want to happen. Google hasn’t been too helpful, but maybe someone reading this has come across this already!

I’m almost certain I linked to this site before, but I’m clearing up my open tabs and it looks like something I want to read later.
And further on the design topic, 10 things that you don’t learn in design school, or any school for that matter. The points raised here apply equally well to any facet of life!

95 percent of any creative profession is shit work.

(via delicious)

This generator produces fluid css and I’m trying to persuade the 3 column one to play nicely with my blog design and wishes. Alas, with little luck. Must try later.