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Can too many links hurt your website?
Many webmasters are unsure if too many links can hurt their website rankings. Others think that links to a brand-new site might be a spam indicator. How many links are good for a website? Should you wait before getting links to your site?
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Better Links for Better Ranking
The type, authority, quality, and quantity of links that link to your site is critical to great search engine placement. The Internet is based on links....
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The effect of outgoing links on your web site
While most webmasters are aware that incoming links are important to the success of a web site, many site owners don't know that outgoing links also have an impact on their web sites. Learn how outgoing links influence search engines and web site visitors.
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Google's new Sitelinks and your web site
Google recently started to include a set of links below some results to pages within the site. These new additional links are called Sitelinks. Read this article to learn how these links might affect your web site.
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New Online Broker 'SogoInvest' Sets Lowest $3 Per Trade Fee
Announcing the launch of SogoInvest, a new and unique online brokerage, setting the lowest $3 per trade commission fees on the Internet, with no hidden fees or account minimums. (PRWEB Jul 11, 2006) Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/U3F1YS1aZXRhLUVtcHQtU3F1YS1JbnNlLVplcm8=
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Should you buy text links?
Many text link broker websites have appeared on the Internet. These websites allow you to rent links from other websites on a monthly basis. Is this something you should consider for your website? What can you expect from these text links?
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Professional Surfboard Builder Reveals Trade Secrets
The surfboard industry has long kept its methods of production hidden from the public, handing down tecniques from master to apprentice in a highly secretive fashion. In his tell-all book,"Shaping and Glassing", professional shaper Steven Miller stirs up controversy by revealing trade secrets to ameteurs. (PRWEB Jul 6, 2006)
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MCU: Accessible Web Design Tip: How to make printable characters between adjacent links invisible.
Some older screen readers are unable to distinguish between adjacent links if there is no printable character between them. The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 provides a priority 3 checkpoint to deal with this unfortunate behaviour of older screen readers:10.5 Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links. The obvious place on a page where you can find several adjacent links to is on a horizontal navigation bar at the top or bottom of a web page. So how do you adhere to this guideline in situations where displaying a printed character in your navigation bar would upset your beautifully crafted design?This weeks tips shows a technique I have used on the Glasgow West End website (http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk) to make the printable characters separating links invisible, by making them the same colour as the navigation bar background, postcards
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Professional testing = Applied epistemology

I am getting some acquaintance with the trade of professional testing; it is just amazing how far were my previous testing notions from the state of the art in such a profession.

Again, pillars from that trade like Glenford J. Myers and Cem Kaner help me to open my eyes.

For instance, in Lessons Learned in Software Testing by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord, they said testing is applied epistemology; that is a very intense, deep in meaning and very compelling statement.

Back to the Opening New Windows Issue?
Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents is Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox article, dated August 29, 2005. Although he'd previously stated not to force links to open new windows, he now feels that you should indeed set links to open in new windows for PDF and other non-Web documents. Even after reading this new article, I still feel strongly about considering the website's target audience, letting the user choose, and avoiding accessibility problems. Today's post goes into why I feel that way and even includes an informal test to check out Nielsen's latest recommendation for yourself. (1195 words, 9 links)
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How to make client-side image maps accessible.
Although client-side images are preferred over server-side image maps - as equivelent text can be provided for each image map 'hot-spot' - server-side image maps are sometimes necessary, e.g. when the active regions of a client-side image map cannot be easily defined using an available geographic shape. In such cases the answer is to provide redundant text links relating to each link provided by the server side image map.The following markup example is typical of the code used to reference a server side image map.

The web pages accessed by the clicking the mage map in the above example would completely hidden to someone using a screen reader or a text-only web browser, as there is no alternative way of accessing the links provided.An example of the server side image with alt attribute added and an alternative set of links to the same content:

Alternative text links are provided at the foot of the page.

You then make the following links available at the foot of the page,

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Search engine insiders talk about links
On a recent search engine conference, Tim Mayer from Yahoo, Matt Cutts from Google and Kaushal Kurapti from Ask Jeeves revealed information on how these three search engines analyze links to determine the ranking of web pages in a public discussion.
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Israel, Hezbollah trade attacks
MSNBC Jul 16 2006 11:41PM GMT
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Israel, Lebanon trade attacks
MSNBC Jul 16 2006 6:27PM GMT
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Helping Those Impacted by Hurricane Katrina
Like many of us, I've been glued to the TV watching the latest news on Hurricane Katrina. The devastation is heart-wrenching. There's news all over the Web, of course, about what's going on, including weblogs popping up. Today's post includes a selection of helpful links of how to help and how to follow the coverage of this horrendous disaster. (314 words, 12 links)
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Google's Matt Cutts talks about buying links
Being one of the main software engineers on Google, Matt Cutts knows best about Google indexing and quality control issues. Find out what he thinks about buying links.
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Inbound links and optimized content for your web site
The contents of a web page are important for the search engine rankings of a web page. Inbound links are even more important if you want to get high rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN.
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My Upcoming Book on Essentials for Web Sites
I've posted information about my upcoming book at my business site's new section, New Book on Web Site Essentials. I'll update information there, especially when I can finally discuss it further, including referencing the title (hopefully soon!).[1] You can also sign up to be notified about when it will be available. It's currently in production via the publisher, SitePoint Books. You'll find more details and links in the complete post. (178 words, 11 links)
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How many link partners are there? How many are enough for a link campaign?
Exchanging links with other sites is a promising way to increase your Google PageRank and to draw visitors to your site. Good incoming links have a positive effect on your search engine rankings and they also bring targeted visitors to your website. But how many potential link partners are there, and what is a realistic goal for your linking campaigns? How many link partners should you have?
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How to get links from an authority site
Webmasters are always looking for ways to get inbound links from authority web sites. For improving search engine rankings, an incoming link from an authority site is worth more than an incoming link from an average site.
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When a link falls at the end of a sentence always put the full stop outside the anchor tag
Consider the World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Checkpoint 10.5:'Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links. 'Generally when trying to ensure that my web pages meet this particular requirement I'm thinking about navigation bars; I'm either marking them up as lists, or putting printable characters between adjacent links (if necessary I make them invisible via CSS). Unfortunately that isn't always enough to ensure a clean bill of health with regard to this particular checkpoint. It is easy - particularly on a page that gets updated often - to violate this rule in the bodytext of the page, e.g., when a sentence that ends with a link, is followed by one that begins with a link.The solution is to get into the habit of adding the full stop after the anchor tag; simple but effective. As web accessibility tips go - it's not the most significant one I've ever published. However, having adjacent links without a printable character between them, means your well crafted page won't pass WCAG Priority 1; and someone is bound to get in touch to alert you to that fact.LinksWCAG Checkpoint 10.5.
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Usability and Design News: Screen Resolution, Page Layout, Hot Spots
Jakob Nielsen and Andy King both have new articles at their sites that cover window resolution, user-friendly website design, and related issues. This important topic is also regularly discussed and debated in Web design and development discussion lists. Below I've highlighted their articles, but be sure to check them out in full, too (links below). (658 words, 9 links, 2 images)
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Aftermath of London Attacks
First, Brainstorms and Raves is not and doesn't plan to be a weblog covering current events or politics. I'm compelled to write about Thursday's terror attacks in London, but my writings here cover how people are using the Internet, especially weblogs, to stay in touch, share stories, and write their thoughts about what happened. Read the complete post for links to quite a few interesting weblogs, photoblogs, and BBC pages with personal accounts. (872 words, 43 links)
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Is link popularity really that important?
With the domination of Google and Yahoo on the search engine market, words like "link popularity", "link prominence" and "link reputation" have become buzzwords in the search engine marketing industry.Many webmasters try to get as many links to their website as possible and some companies even offer "1000 links to your website within minutes". But is link popularity really so important as many people want us to believe?
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Displaced, Injured Animals from Hurricane Katrina
I've seen so many scenes of stranded animals from Hurricane Katrina, including dogs holding on to tree limbs for dear life or stranded on rooftops or balconies all alone. There are countless displaced farm animals, wildlife, and beloved pets as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Please help or donate. Tonight's post provides links to several agencies for more information. (358 words, 7 links, 1 image)
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Behind the Scenes with Apache's .htaccess
Although I'm a designer and not a programmer or server-side specialist, for a few years I've used Apache's .htaccess to a limited degree for clients' websites, primarily for simple URL redirects and setting up custom error pages. Now that I can use Apache's .htaccess for my own websites, I've been immersed in learning more about how to use this powerful tool conservatively but effectively to redirect URLs and to combat spammers and bad bots. Today's post provides links to some of the online sources that I've found especially helpful. (3024 words, 91 links)
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Official Google statement: Can links to other web sites hurt your rankings?
Linking to other web sites can hurt your rankings if you link to the wrong web sites. A Google official has recently commented on bad neighborhood links and how they affect your web site rankings on Google.
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New Color Scheme Tool
While there are certainly quite a few color tools available for creating color schemes and color matching, there's a new one out now by Genometri - GenoColor that takes a very different approach to creating color schemes. GenoPalette will help you create eye-popping color schemes, color combinations, match existing colors, fine tune colors, and calibrate colors. Read more about it, along with links to other helpful color tools, in today's post. (278 words, 7 links)
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How to analyze the linking structure of your competitors
A web page with 50 inbound links can have better rankings than a web page with 500 inbound links. If other pages rank higher than your web pages, then you have to analyze the linking structure of these pages.
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New Web Accessibility Articles, Accessible Style Switching
There are lots of great new and recent articles, tutorials, and tips about Web accessibility. Today's post includes links to articles and tutorials on Web accessibility in general, accessible forms, accessible style switching, including my own site's style switching, accessibility and the blind and low vision users, helpful accessibility tools for Web developers, and more. (1412 words, 42 links)
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Python eggs

The 'Python eggs' site is nifty.

Watch it grow at the Wayback Machine.

(psst. Don't forget SpamBayes, and if not too much overkill, link that logo. ;-))

Better, Faster XML Processing with VTD-XML
VTD-XML is a new open source XML processing API that provides a great alternative to SAX and DOM that doesn't force you to trade processing performance for usability. Find out why this Java-based, non-validating parser is faster than DOM and better than SAX.
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Favicon Plugin for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro
Looking around for a Photoshop plugin to create several favorites/shortcut/bookmark icons as favicon.ico files, I found a great plugin that works beautifully, and it's even free: Free Photoshop ICO Format plugin via telegraphics.com.au. They state that it works with all versions of Photoshop, including CS and CS2, and that it also works with Paint Shop Pro. Actually, you'll find quite a few interesting plugins there for Windows and Mac. The complete post has a few resources on creating them yourself and the art of creating icons, along with links to icons that you can admire for inspiration. (212 words, 4 links)
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Dreamweaver
Two new links:"Working with Background Images and CSS Ð Parts 1 and 2".
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Tools
Two new links: "Web Accessibility Toolbar (For Opera)" "Insta-Select" and "PURE".
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Pillars of our trade

Very good article in IEEE Software January/Februry 2006 magazine:

Looking for Powerful Abstractions by Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock

'Finding the right level of abstraction
takes practice and experimentation.
There are times when both concrete
classes and their common abstraction
add value to a design, and there are
times when they don’t. To find good
classes, experienced designers make
distinctions based on significant behavior
differences.'

There are words and phrases from experienced people in our industry of software design and programming that just feel right, it is like they are describing a higher level of truth I need to aspire.

Another example from How do we tell truths that might hurt?:

'Besides a mathematical inclination,
an exceptionally good mastery
of one's native tongue
is the most vital asset of
a competent programmer' -Edsger W. Dijkstra

That is a reason why these people are pillars of our trade.

Holy CSS Zeldman!
An exaustive list of CSS links, and other Web designer/developer resources.
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The importance of being first
A recently conducted study examined the links users followed on the search engine results page. What does this mean to you and how can you benefit from it?
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The Definitive Post on Gzipping your CSS
Or: how to use PHP to compress your stylesheets on the fly if you don't have Apache's mod_gzip available. Two methods are presented, one if you can use .htaccess files, and one if you cannot. Links related to the technique are also provided.
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Position is Everything
How could I forget about Big John and Holly? Smack! CSS browser bugs and solutions, articles, demos, tutorials, links, lots of example code, you name it and they've got it. A must bookmark.
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