Tryangled Solutions web designing tips tricks

The robots.txt file will instruct search engine robots what pages and/or folders on your blog or website should be or should NOT be crawled and indexed. Most Content Management Software (Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) will have files and folders that are not relevant for search engines (like images or admin files) and you really don’t want them to crawl them because there is no relevant content on them so creating a simple robots.txt file can actually improve your website crawlability and therefore rankings and organic traffic.

Just because everyone feels that they have a solution to someone else’s problems, new forms of technology are created. Some technology is created to process word files and improve the use of the computer while others are created to enhance the use of the Internet.

Because the Internet is so widely used, countless developers are coming up with tools that will make the Internet more user friendly. Several browsers are created one competing against the other as far as performance goes. Two highly competitive browsers are Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Internet Explorer has been around since the creation of windows. It is used by several individuals. It has many wonderful browsing features as well as some safety features such as a pop up blocker. Though it is extremely popular, Firefox is gaining momentum as people are catching onto the numerous benefits.

One benefit that Firefox has that totally outdoes Internet Explorer is the enhanced popup blocker. Unlike Internet Explorer’s popup blocker that only halfway does the trick, Firefox’s popup blocker blocks out all of the annoying ads. You’ll never again have to see them on your computer. What’s more, you do not need supplemental programs to block annoying ads as does Internet Explorer.

Should you wan to open new web pages, you do not need to open them in new windows. Rather, you can use tabs. What’s more, you can open them in the background.

If you are filling in any forms online, Firefox will save the details for you so you will not have to go back and enter them in a second time. This is great, especially if you are going to sites you’ll use more than once such as Google or advertising sites like Craigslist. This detail alone is not only a time saver: but, it makes life online easier.

When using Firefox, you’ll also have better online security. Spyware, adware and malicious software cannot automatically install themselves into the browser unlike Internet Explorer. This means that you’ll not have to worry about your browser being hijacked to the point of having to repair your OS or totally reformat it all together.

Though Firefox possesses many great attributes, there are some disadvantages to using the browser. For example, its tight security makes ActiveX impossible to run which is a major problem since countless developers use ActiveX to deliver various applications to desktops. This makes it impossible to ditch Internet Explorer completely as if you wanted to use ActiveX, you’ll need to switch browsers.

In order to decide whether Firefox has really replace Internet Explorer will require that you are looking at the entire picture. It is imperative that you have all the facts. Also, just because you have switched to Firefox does not mean that you should forget about updating and patching Internet Explorer on a regular basis. Though Firefox is a great browser, you’ll still need to rely on Internet Explorer for certain things, especially when it comes to making up for the weaknesses found in Firefox.

1 — Fast Loading Pages

Pages should load fast. Most people will leave your site if it’s not done loading in ten or 15 seconds. And even if you have a fast internet connection, not everyone does and 56k modems still exist.

2 — Easy to Read Text

Text should be easy to read. The text size should be big enough, and the background should not obscure your text. If you want to be safe, use black text on a white background. If you want more color, choose very carefully to make sure it’s still easy to read.

3 — Intuitive and Easy to Navigate

Your website should be easy to navigate. Each link should be clearly identified as such and graphic navigation elements like buttons and tabs should be easy to read and use. You do not want people leaving because they could not figure out how your Flash menu works.

4 — Consistent Layout

Your layout and design should be consistent. If you switch between styles too much, you will confuse your visitors. If the design is too different, people will believe that they are now on a different website since the layout changed.

5 — Less is More - Sometimes…

Avoid music and sounds. Very few people like to have music forced on them while they navigate, especially if they are already listening to music or surfing at their job! If you really cannot do without music, turn it off by default and ask visitors to start it themselves.

6 — Pay Attention to Browser Compatability

Design for browser compatibility. Many people do not use Internet Explorer on Windows. Make sure your site is at least viewable in Mozilla Firefox and Opera (if possible, you could even try testing on a Mac). Sites that target markets like technology should be more careful, since readers are more likely to use the newest browsers and gadgets like PDAs.

7 — Screen Resolution - Still Matters

Design for all screen resolutions. You may like to surf in 1240×1080 with your new screen, but some people still use 800×600, or even 640×768! A site that looks perfect in high resolution may turn out to be impossible to view correctly in 800×600.

This is just a begining to what I hope will be a growing list of web design tips (please submit tips through comments) and one that evolves into more advanced design tips. Please provide some feedback and tips of your own so I can get a better sense of the level of our readership.

Based on the latest patent filing from Google the answer to this question is yes. Google states that how a site is hosted and the length of time that a domain name has been paid for does help in how a web site ranks. Google considers a domain name that has been paid for, for more than one year a more credible domain since throwaway domains are rarely used for more than one year. Google looks at the following information:

* how long has the domain name been paid for in years
* how long has the hosting company been around
* how many web pages the web site has (one page is not good)
* who the owner, admin and contact names are in the registrars records

Google keeps track of bad name servers and can tell whether or not a spammer is running a domain.

Following the steps above could make your rankings improve!

1. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but search engines don’t read pictures. Make sure your key search terms are written out in text, not part of a graphic title you hire somebody to prepare for you. That also means you should not just show pictures of toys, but also write out the names, and possibly a keyword description with the title.

2. Have several pages of articles related to your website’s topic. Use a different keyword search term for each article. For instance, one article might use frequently the term “safe toys for babies”, while another might use the term “baby safety”.

3. What’s the URL of your website? Your name won’t help you there. Your key search term will. In this instance, I might pick www.baby-toy-safety.com, for example (if that is one of your top keyword phrases). Hire somebody who knows what he is doing to develop the right keyword strategy for you BEFORE you choose your domain name.

4. What’s the title of your page? I don’t know how many times I see titles such as “Article” or “Contact us”. Don’t expect the search engine robots to get all excited about that term. And don’t expect anybody to search for that term, either. Much better to title your page “Free article on safe toys for babies” or “Contact the *Baby Toy Expert* today”. By the way, this is the single most important place to include your keyword phrases.

5. What about that navigation menu that appears on every single page of your website? Does it say “Contact the baby toy expert?” Or “about the baby toy expert”. Or links about baby toys?” Need I say more?

1. Frequent content updates don’t improve Page Rank automatically. Content is not part of the PR       calculation.

2. High Page Rank doesn’t mean high search ranking.

3. DMOZ and Yahoo! Listings don’t improve Page Rank automatically.

4. .edu and .gov-sites don’t improve Page Rank automatically.

5. Sub-directories don’t necessarily have a lower Page Rank than root-directories.

6. Wikipedia links don’t improve PageRank automatically (update: but pages which extract       information from Wikipedia might improve PageRank).

7. Links marked with nofollow-attribute don’t contribute to Google PageRank.

8. Efficient internal onsite linking has an impact on PageRank.

9. Related high ranked web-sites count stronger. But: “a page with high PageRank may actually       pass you less if it has more links, because it’s spread too thin.”

10. Links from and to high quality related sites have an impact on Page Rank.

11. Multiple votes to one link from the same page cost as much as a single vote.

Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP and look for AutoEndTasks. On my computer default value is 0. Change it to 1. Thats all. Further more you can reduce the time it takes for Windows to issue kill directive to all active/hung applications.
In doing this only constraint that you should make sure exists is that HungAppTimeout is greater than WaitToKillAppTimeout. Change the values of WaitToKillAppTimeout to say 3500 (since default value for HungAppTimeout 5000 and for WaitToKillAppTimeout is 20000)