January 19th, 2012 by admin
Panda is Google’s new artificial intelligence based search engine algorithm. It runs every 4-7 weeks assessing website quality by a new set of metrics that weigh heavily upon user experience.
Panda was first released in February 2011, and went global in April 2011. The Panda algorithm represents the single biggest change to how Google indexes websites since Google began in 1998. For Search Engine Marketers (SEM), and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts, Panda has turned their world on its head.
In addition to user experience metrics, Panda factors in aggregate spam indicators on websites that, when combined, can trigger site-wide penalties, automatic SERP oblivion, and sometimes even …Read the full article
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August 3rd, 2010 by Lex Fitz
Years since CSS enabled us to retire the humble HTML table and write properly semantic code, it is still common to hear hissing and whining from old school coders who are reluctant to update their skills and learn to code by contemporary standards.
When you look for help with tableless CSS on Stack Overflow and other amateur coding forums, you can expect to be trolled by some pimply face kid, “dude, what are you doing… don’t be so puritanical” and, “that’s not possible in CSS, just use tables” and other ill informed ideas that assume tables should still be used for structural code elements. …Read the full article
Tags: clear floats, CSS, HasLayout, ie6 bugs, tableless CSS
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July 29th, 2010 by Lex Fitz
I know a lot of intelligent people using social media networks. Most of my friends on Facebook fall into this category and knowing each of them personally it amazes me how such intelligent people routinely put their critical minds to sleep the moment they log on to social media networks.
Within just moments of logging on to Facebook, people are instantly sucked in to a self perpetuating social media rumour mill that has never done any good, and frequently does a lot of harm. The moment they see “ATTENTION” and “URGENT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS RIGHT NOW” they’ve already …Read the full article
Tags: Cyber Bullying, Facebook, Social Media
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July 10th, 2010 by Lex Fitz
Welcome to the new Articles section! Please check back soon for new developments and upcoming articles for online professionals, website designers, developers and enthusiasts.
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Is NoFollow Flame Retardant for WordPress Blogs?
July 16th, 2010 by Lex FitzBecause comment spam is mostly done by automated bots and requires almost zero effort, reducing the effectiveness of comment spam will never actually make it too much work to bother doing. Yet on the other hand meaningful hand-written comments do require effort, so allowing WordPress to add rel=nofollow to them seems counter …Read the full article
Tags: blogs, comment spam, nofollow, WordPress
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