Posts Tagged ‘web pages’
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
PHP and MySQL combine to be an easy yet powerful way to create dynamic web pages that actually interact with your visitors. HTML can create useful and well formatted web pages. With the addition of PHP and MySQL you can collect data from your users, create specific content on the fly, and do many other things that HTML alone can’t do.
The beauty of PHP as a language is that it is designed to be used along with HTML. You can use PHP right inside your already existing HTML content, or put HTML tags right inside your PHP coding. When learning PHP you are not making your existing HTML knowledge obsolete, you are instead adding to it to give it more functions and abilities.
Tags: abilities, collect, designed, html, knowledge, learning, MySQL, obsolete, PHP, users, web pages
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
The history of your website and in fact, the individual pages within it are playing an increasingly important role in your site’s ability to rank well. The longer your site has been online the better your chances of ranking highly. Further, the longer a specific internal page has been live the better it will rank for additional phrases.
What this means to you is that you will have to take into account the length of time your domain has been around when you set your expectations regarding which phrases you should be ranking for. In the beginning of a promotion you will not want to target an intensely competitive phrase with hopes of attaining it on Google; rather you will want to select less competitive secondary phrases that contain the primary phrase (”seo services” vs. “guaranteed seo services” for example) and optimize for that. What you will accomplish is rankings on Google for at least a relevant phrase while at the same time building links with relevancy for your primary phrase which you will rank well for once your website has gained history.
The less competitive the phrase, the more weight the other factors will have on your ability to rank highly. History is only one factor among many. For highly competitive phrases where you are competing with sites that have history and have also addressed the other factors noted below you will find it extremely difficult to outrank them, however for less competitive phrases the other factors will hold more weight in that the other sites will likely not be optimized as strongly for them and thus, your site stands a much better chance of beating them out.
Tags: account, additional, competitive, factors, further, history, internal page, optimized, rank highly, search engine optimization, strongly, web pages
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
JavaScript is not a programming language in strict sense. Instead, it is a scripting language because it uses the browser to do the dirty work. If you command an image to be replaced by another one, JavaScript tells the browser to go do it. Because the browser actually does the work, you only need to pull some strings by writing some relatively easy lines of code. That’s what makes JavaScript an easy language to start with.
But don’t be fooled by some beginner’s luck: JavaScript can be pretty difficult, too. First of all, despite its simple appearance it is a full fledged programming language: it is possible to write quite complex programs in JavaScript. This is rarely necessary when dealing with web pages, but it is possible. This means that there are some complex programming structures that you’ll only understand after protracted studies.
Secondly, and more importantly, there are the browser differences. Though modern web browsers all support JavaScript, there is no sacred law that says they should support exactly the same JavaScript. A large part of this site is devoted to exploring and explaining these browser differences and finding ways to cope with them.
So basic JavaScript is easy to learn, but when you start writing advanced scripts browser differences (and occasionally syntactic problems) will creep up.
Tags: complex programming, differences, Javascript, language, law, programming language, scripting language, structures, studies, understand, web browsers, web pages
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Unique content is important too. You need to provide content that has different information than what is on other sites and other Web pages.
Tags: content, different, important, information, search engine optimization, unique, web pages
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
When you stick to specific keyword density numbers, you put yourself at risk somewhat, of hanging your hat on a shingle that will fall down later. Search engines are constantly evolving and changing how they rank web pages.
What you want to do is use your keywords high and to the left of the document. Two or three times, four times maybe. Use general guidelines and focus on the user. It’s a matter of not being too clever and ironic and being literal with the keywords you’re using. Use them high in a document and in links as opposed to saying, “Let’s shoot for a 6% keyword density every time.”
Tags: density, Document, down later, every time, four, keywords, maybe, opposed, press, Rank, releases, Right, SEO, Things, times, web pages
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Using a special syntax is a way to tell Google that you want to restrict your searches to certain elements or characteristics of Web pages. Google has a fairly complete list of its syntax elements at www.google.com/help/operators.html. Here are some advanced operators that can help narrow down your search results.
Intitle: at the beginning of a query word or phrase (intitle:”Three Blind Mice”) restricts your search results to just the titles of Web pages.
Intext: does the opposite of intitle:, searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth. Intext: is perfect when what you’re searching for might commonly appear in URLs. If you’re looking for the term HTML, for example, and you don’t want to get results such as www.mysite.com/index.html, you can enter intext:html.
Link: lets you see which pages are linking to your Web page or to another page you’re interested in.
Try using site: (which restricts results to top-level domains) with intitle: to find certain types of pages. For example, get scholarly pages about Mark Twain by searching for intitle:”Mark Twain”site:edu. Experiment with mixing various elements; you’ll develop several strategies for finding the stuff you want more effectively. The site: command is very helpful as an alternative to the mediocre search engines built into many sites.
Tags: complete, Elements, fairly, google, pages, restricts, Results, Search, Syntax, tricks, web pages
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Since web pages drive search engine rankings, Black Hat SEOs began duplicating the content of entire web sites under their own domain name, instantly producing a ton of web pages (kind of like downloading an encyclopedia onto your web site). Due to this abuse, Google aggressively attacked duplicate content abusers with their algorithm updates, knocking out many legitimate websites as collateral damage in the process. For example, when someone scrapes your site, Google will look at both renditions of the site, and in some cases it may determine the legitimate one to be the duplicate. The only way to prevent this is to track down sites as they are scraped and then submit spam reports to Google. Issues with duplicate content also arise because there are a lot of legitimate uses for them. News feeds are the most obvious example: a news story is covered by many websites because it’s the content that viewerss want to see. Any filter will inevitably catch some legitimate uses.
Tags: collateral damage, content, Domain Name, Downloading, Duplicate, google, inevitably, Issues, Prevent, scrapes, SEO, site, web pages, Websites
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
What is ASP?Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s scripting language for building dynamic web sites, web applications and web services., First released in January 2002 , along with the version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, ASP.net is the successor to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is made on the Common Language Runtime, allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code via any supported .NET language such as VBScript and Jscript.What is PHP?PHP or (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a PC scripting language designed for the construction of dynamic web pages. PHP is largely used in server-side scripting, but can also be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications.PHP commonly runs on a web server, taking the PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be set up on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform for free.To be Continued…
Tags: ASP, better, command, designed, dynamic, every, free, Microsoft’s, operating system, PHP, web pages, web servers
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Visit your favorite news page and read the caption under the picture—or view the picture itself in a size you can see. An elegant new zoom feature lets you swoop in and see entire web pages. They scale in the way you’d expect them to, with all the elements of a page’s layout expanding equally, so you can zero in on what matters.
Tags: elegant, Elements, favorite, Firefox, Full Zoom, picture, web pages
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
A built-in spell checker lets you enter text directly into Web pages— like blog posts and Web-based email—without worrying about typos and misspellings. Work directly with the Web and save yourself a step.
Tags: checker, Email, Firefox, misspellings, Spell Checking, Web, web pages, Web-based
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