From the category archives:

Website Development

Cuil: Why Scrolling Divs? Why Columns?

July 28, 2008

So….. some ex-Google engineers have launched their own search engine: Cuil (pronounced “Cool”).
They claim that its index is 3 times the size of Google’s. Great!
They say it focuses on on-page content for relevancy. Great!
I would love to see a good solid competitor for Google. I would love to see a search engine that focuses more [...]

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Remove Border from Linked Images

March 19, 2008

In a Dreamweaver newsgroup that I read regularly, the following question is asked and answered almost daily:“How do I remove the ugly blue border from around all my linked images?”
The answer is, put this in your style sheet:
a img { border: 0;}

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Newspapers Still Don’t Get It

March 12, 2008

Daily newspapers have been fighting decreasing readership and falling subscriptions for at least a couple of decades now. More and more, newspapers are putting their content online.
For that I salute them.
But the web is now about 15 years old, and I wonder why so many newspapers still don’t manage to get some of the basic [...]

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Design Virus?

January 30, 2008

Google thinks that searching for web pages with the word “design” in the title means you have a virus
There are some “advanced” Google searches that web developers and search engine experts often use to get a better picture of the true competition for various keywords. One of these is using intitle: to find out how [...]

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