It appears that Googlebot was in here yesterday according to the cache for this page.
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Just when you thought you were cured from the constant checking of your SERPS, Google sucks you right back in with more temptation.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Google Cache Showing "Retrieved Date"
In a Search Engine Watch forum post, the Online SEO Training team of Sharon and Roy have just reported seeing the addition of the retrieval date of when Google had cached the page.
It appears that Googlebot was in here yesterday according to the cache for this page.
Just when you thought you were cured from the constant checking of your SERPS, Google sucks you right back in with more temptation.
It appears that Googlebot was in here yesterday according to the cache for this page.
Just when you thought you were cured from the constant checking of your SERPS, Google sucks you right back in with more temptation.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Nvu - Open Source WYSIWYG Editor
Nvu, an Open Source project from Lindows, is being billed as the complete Web authoring system for the desktop. Flavors are available for both Linux and Windows. The IDE sports a tabbed editing environment in which you can jump between WYSIWYG and Html modes easily.
This is truly the first free WYSIWYG editor that I have tried that can even begin to compare to the likes of DreamWeaver or FrontPage; although Nvu does have a long ways to go. Still it is a very simplistic and easy to use interface as evidenced by this screenshot. You will see the tabbed editing environment in that image which makes the screen less cluttered.
The FTP site manager in Nvu become browseable in a sidebar. You can get a tree view of a site, à la Explorer's folders pane, or a one-dir-only view, à la Explorer's directory view. It is also possible to filter files and show all files, or only HTML documents or image files. The browsing area also allows to show for each file its size and the date of last modification.
What is impressive about Nvu are some of the other features it has. Building Forms is a snap and provides for easy property assignments to build perfect forms in the blink of an eye ... well maybe not that quick, but it is fast.
Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla. Support of XML, CSS and JavaScript is also offered. Its architecture based on XUL makes it more extensible.
This is truly the first free WYSIWYG editor that I have tried that can even begin to compare to the likes of DreamWeaver or FrontPage; although Nvu does have a long ways to go. Still it is a very simplistic and easy to use interface as evidenced by this screenshot. You will see the tabbed editing environment in that image which makes the screen less cluttered.
The FTP site manager in Nvu become browseable in a sidebar. You can get a tree view of a site, à la Explorer's folders pane, or a one-dir-only view, à la Explorer's directory view. It is also possible to filter files and show all files, or only HTML documents or image files. The browsing area also allows to show for each file its size and the date of last modification.
What is impressive about Nvu are some of the other features it has. Building Forms is a snap and provides for easy property assignments to build perfect forms in the blink of an eye ... well maybe not that quick, but it is fast.
Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla. Support of XML, CSS and JavaScript is also offered. Its architecture based on XUL makes it more extensible.
Sunday, July 25, 2004
BoG Launches Blog
The Band of Gonzos Web Design Forums have launched a new blog on the website, affectionately referred to as The BoG Blog. Pretty catchy, eh?
Right now we have a couple of contributors signed up for the blog and will be adding more at a later date. The contributors will offer commentary on daily or weekly happenings in the web design and search engine marketing areas of the Internet. These views may not necessarily reflect the opinions of the BoG.
The design for the blog template is temporary, it is the only one we could find to quickly throw up and pretty much fit the color scheme of the BoG. If anyone has any time on their hands and would like to donate a really kewl design in trade for a link on the BoG site in recognition -- feel free to contact us at the BoG with your interest to do so.
Right now we have a couple of contributors signed up for the blog and will be adding more at a later date. The contributors will offer commentary on daily or weekly happenings in the web design and search engine marketing areas of the Internet. These views may not necessarily reflect the opinions of the BoG.
The design for the blog template is temporary, it is the only one we could find to quickly throw up and pretty much fit the color scheme of the BoG. If anyone has any time on their hands and would like to donate a really kewl design in trade for a link on the BoG site in recognition -- feel free to contact us at the BoG with your interest to do so.
CSS Filters and Hacks
CSS Filters is a categorized matrix of filters and hacks for CSS and whether or not they will validate or not, or just totally break the browser. The matrix will allow you to display any of a variety of browsers on the market today, and yesterday, via a drop down selection screen.
"Because of the generally crappy CSS standards support in modern browsers, a number of techniques have been developed to hide CSS stylesheets, rules, and declarations from browsers that won't understand or will mis-interpret them, or to set different values to the same CSS property in different browsers in order to achieve the same appearance on all (or most) browsers. On these pages, I've collected a number of these techniques (usually called filters or hacks) and documented what browsers they work on."The pages are categorized into CSS filtering using CSS only, CSS filtering using (X)HTML, CSS filtering using JavaScript, and Non-validating Hacks for quick and easy referencing.
.htAccess Generator Deluxe
The [!] htAccess Generator is the mother of all .htaccess generators. This page has it all!
I am going to add this to my favorites inside of my Html-kit, because I don't frequently write .htaccess files. But when I do have a need to write one, I am forever and a day looking up the right syntax. This sucker is just the ticket, and covers just about everything you can possibly dream of -- except the kitchen sink.
"Use this online htaccess generator to create your apache configuration files.
Dot Htaccesser simplifies the process of creating Apache .htaccess files. Users fill in the HTML form for the configuration desired, and it generates the .htaccess file syntax. It handles options (execCGI, includes, MultiView, etc.), authentication files, IP address blocking, custom MIME types, and error documents"
I am going to add this to my favorites inside of my Html-kit, because I don't frequently write .htaccess files. But when I do have a need to write one, I am forever and a day looking up the right syntax. This sucker is just the ticket, and covers just about everything you can possibly dream of -- except the kitchen sink.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
iRider Web Browser Product Info - Wymea Bay
Here is a kewl browser called iRider. iRider is an advanced multi-page web browser without the use of tabs. It will allow you to browse much faster and work with lots of pages and sites at once, and lets you do it much more easily and naturally than with any other browser. Okay, that is the opening paragraph from the iRider site ... but you will have to take a look at it to believe it.
iRider has a unique approach to popups. Since iRider will connect and load pages while you are working on another page in the background, then popups are handled in the same way ... they are loaded in the background also. A quick glance at the sidebar will see a thumbnail of the popup -- and you can choose to ignore it or read it, just like an ad in the newpaper. Blocking some popups may prevent important features of some web sites from working, such as login windows for shops and banks. Even if blocked, some site may employ sneakier methods to show those popups. iRider lets it do its thing without an annoying window popping up in front of your face.
Other features allow you to pin pages to keep them from getting buried, SurfAhead will download pages in the background, mass link download by highlighting your links then right-click and go, surf several search engines at once, the Next Page button will automatically advance you to only pages that are ready for viewing (skipping over unfinished downloads), add several pages to your favorites at once, create favorite "books" which will allow you to open all your favorites in the book all at once with one click, and exchange sets of pages with others.
Andi at AndiLinks is giving this a whirl right now. She is pretty impressed with it so far. She mentioned another key feature that should be mentioned ... it is built with the Internet Explorer engine, but they have claimed to have plugged some major security flaws with IE -- namely the flaw that may allow an attacker to record passwords or other sensitive information, even on a secure website. See this Technical Note for more information and for steps to take to enhance security.
iRider has a unique approach to popups. Since iRider will connect and load pages while you are working on another page in the background, then popups are handled in the same way ... they are loaded in the background also. A quick glance at the sidebar will see a thumbnail of the popup -- and you can choose to ignore it or read it, just like an ad in the newpaper. Blocking some popups may prevent important features of some web sites from working, such as login windows for shops and banks. Even if blocked, some site may employ sneakier methods to show those popups. iRider lets it do its thing without an annoying window popping up in front of your face.
Other features allow you to pin pages to keep them from getting buried, SurfAhead will download pages in the background, mass link download by highlighting your links then right-click and go, surf several search engines at once, the Next Page button will automatically advance you to only pages that are ready for viewing (skipping over unfinished downloads), add several pages to your favorites at once, create favorite "books" which will allow you to open all your favorites in the book all at once with one click, and exchange sets of pages with others.
Andi at AndiLinks is giving this a whirl right now. She is pretty impressed with it so far. She mentioned another key feature that should be mentioned ... it is built with the Internet Explorer engine, but they have claimed to have plugged some major security flaws with IE -- namely the flaw that may allow an attacker to record passwords or other sensitive information, even on a secure website. See this Technical Note for more information and for steps to take to enhance security.
Flyspeck - Browser Based Web Page Editor
Have you ever wanted a simple interface for you clients so they can edit portions of a web page without having to know any Html or other technical skills? Enter Flyspeck , a - browser based web page editor that enables them to edit whole pages or selective parts of the page only.
Flyspeck is a PHP enabled script that you install on your webserver that interprets parts of the page wrapped with 'beginning' and 'ending' edit tags. Then you add a 'trigger' and the script handles the rest via an online Html editing interface. The Html editor does require IE5.5 or higher though, but that is a common enough browser and probably one that all of your clients are using anyway.
The script works by using a pattern matching function to read in just the chosen editable portion and loads that into the editor. After pressing save, the altered HTML is put back into the file . The user can't break your layout tables or edit things that you don't allow.
The script has a moderate price tag of $40, but a small enough fee considering the numerous hours of time this will save you in updating their called in changes.
The Flyspeck website has some online demos of the script in action here http://www.flyspeck.net/demos/
Flyspeck is a PHP enabled script that you install on your webserver that interprets parts of the page wrapped with 'beginning' and 'ending' edit tags. Then you add a 'trigger' and the script handles the rest via an online Html editing interface. The Html editor does require IE5.5 or higher though, but that is a common enough browser and probably one that all of your clients are using anyway.
The script works by using a pattern matching function to read in just the chosen editable portion and loads that into the editor. After pressing save, the altered HTML is put back into the file . The user can't break your layout tables or edit things that you don't allow.
The script has a moderate price tag of $40, but a small enough fee considering the numerous hours of time this will save you in updating their called in changes.
The Flyspeck website has some online demos of the script in action here http://www.flyspeck.net/demos/
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