Does Google care for SEO? Yes, it does: from Google’s SEO Starter Guide (pdf) to help provided in the Google Webmaster Help Forum, the search engine is pretty transparent when it comes to how it prefers you to optimize your site for inclusion. We’ll be discussing URL structure, TrustRank and...

A few weeks ago I received a free copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Packt Publishing to review. You can view the chapter about serving multiple output formats on my blog, and below is my review of the rest. Author The author is Scott Newman, who has had several years' experience with Django...

You’ve probably never heard of Eric Vasilik but his work affects millions on a daily basis.  He is a programmer and also the creator of the innerHTML element property. The innerHTML element property is commonly used in Javascript (and therefore Ajax) scripts that so many sites use these days....

The Lift web framework hit its 1.0 release today. Major congratulations goes to the Lift team. I have been lucky enough to get to know Lift founder David Pollak and Lift committer Jorge Ortiz. They are both very bright engineers and the high quality of Lift reflects this. I was very happy to give a ...

Earlier this morning I was reading a number of comments in response to a submission on reddit.com where I found out that despite being a regular visitor to the site there were multiple useful features I was completely unaware of. Here's a list of features I discovered the site has that I hadn't noti...

Last fall it was Chrome. Now it’s Safari 4 Beta. Soon it will be Firefox 3.1 and IE 8. Each browser has its harsh critics and fervent supporters. But in the end, does the browser really matter? The answer to this question depends on who you speak to. Developers will say yes, because browsers m...

Danny Sullivan, Search Industry Watcher The Internet is full of crap. There, I said it. Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan recently said: “Search engines have ‘rules’ that they themselves knowingly allow others to break. Arguments erupt over the idea that any type of marketing is ‘manipu...

One of the problems in writing good code is a reluctance to back up. An example — I was writing a little app for a client the other day, and I had a written some PHP to split an unordered list (UL) into three columns. Then I needed this code on another page…so I cut-and-pasted it in. The...

The more I program, the more I believe this statement: you’re not just programming for today, you’re programming for today and for six months from now when you crack the code open again to make a change and think, “Now, how does this code work again?” The fact is, things that...

There is a lot of information about how a Web Design and Development company will handle a project once it is awarded, but I thought it would be a good idea to write a brief overview of the entire process from an organizational perspective. 1. Identify your Goals While every organization handles thi...