If you’re a webmaster, administrator, or moderator of any large blog, forum, or other community site, you’ll find that a lot of time is wasted spelling out URIs to various useful links, whether they’re to guides, reviews, downloads, or forms. On a big website with lots of members (especially that kind that don’t use the [...]
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Using Bad Word Filters to Boost SEO & Productivity
Published by June 12th, 2007 in Guides, SEO 0 CommentsCreating a (Unified!) Vendor-Neutral Markup Standard
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Programming, Software 1 CommentTake a look at any blog, wiki, forum, etc. Specifically, look at how posts are created, filtered, and displayed. There are dozens of different ways for authors to specify the formatting and content of their articles/posts, and hundreds of ways to render the results. Some blogs rely on now-famous 3rd-party markup implementations like Textile and [...]
The Difference Between an Acronym and an Abbreviation
Published by February 5th, 2007 in Guides, Programming 2 CommentsTen to one, if you’re posting an article, creating a web page, or just coding some HTML; and you’re about to code in a <abbr> tag to let people not “in the know” get what exactly it is that you’re talking about, you actually should be using the <acronym> tag instead. Maybe you’re not even [...]
"Padding-" and "Margin-" – What’s the Difference?
Published by January 25th, 2007 in Design, Guides, Programming, Software 4 CommentsMany intermediate and begginer CSS designers get confused when it comes to padding and margin values. What’s the difference? They both just shift stuff, so why the different names? Don’t they do the same thing?
Although the behavior of margin- and padding- is very similary, there is one important difference: margin- is on the outside of [...]
Generally speaking, the one sector of the online world where websites attract far more attention & traffic than money is the blogosphere. Whereas other websites stand to benefit quite a bit from the meager investments they put into their site in the first place, bloggers must work long and hard for their 15 minutes of [...]
