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Monthly Archives: December 2007
You Know You’re Popular When
Today my personal site was pinged by Live Business Radio. As I do as a matter of course, I checked out the Live Business Radio web site and was disappointed to find that it’s nothing more than your average run … Continue reading
Google Alerts Getting Smarter
Google Alerts lets the user define keyword lists and phrases, which when found by Google while crawling and indexing web sites – will send a user a notification about that particular occurrence. Historically, it always appeared as though the technology … Continue reading
Extending Nintendo Wii
Johnny Lee, a human computer interaction student has released a series of videos demonstrating alternative uses for the Nintendo Wii gaming console. At this stage, Johnny has released videos showcasing: Minority Report style hand gestures to control your computer low … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
Tagged .net, hci, human computer interaction, nintendo, nintendo wii, wii
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Django Northwind Coming Soon
Whenever someone in the Microsoft development world has needed to demonstrate virtually anything utilising a database, the Microsoft Northwind database has been used. The beauty of the Northwind database being so widely recognised and frequently reused, is that developers around … Continue reading
Posted in Database, Programming
Tagged django, microsoft, microsoft northwind, northwind
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Google Analytics & URL Rewriting Caveats
As the internet has matured and web sites have aged and expanded over the years, it has now become common place for web site owners to restructure their web sites to increase the sites accessibility and search engine effectiveness. During … Continue reading
Changing The HTML Source Order Can Damage Search Engine Referrals
What follows is a quick digest of the impacts a web site owner might expect from reordering the HTML source on a web site, in particular what effects it can have on the search engine performance of a web site. … Continue reading
Posted in Search
Tagged click through rate, ctr, Search, search engine optimisation, seo
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Measuring The Impact Of Page Titles
Following on from my simple experiment regarding the performance of different Adsense themes, it seemed like as good a time as any to start another experiment surrounding the impact of web page titles on search engine performance. Out of the … Continue reading
Stopping Search Engines Indexing Website Maintenance Pages
There is no schedule for when a search engine will or won’t turn up on your web sites door step and starting indexing it; what happens when they turn up unannounced during scheduled maintenance? Under normal conditions, the search engine … Continue reading