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'Web Development' Archive
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A couple weeks ago I posted about creating jump links in php for large affiliate sites. In the post, I linked to a tutorial on how to create the clean looking jump links.
After my post, I showed the code to my web developer brother, Jesse Knowles and he let me know that there is a […]
Continue Reading: Switch Statement Trumps If Statement
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While creating a large affiliate site this month, I found myself wanting a way to disguise the ugly affiliate links that Commission Junction, Linkshare, Performics and other affiliate programs give us.
They don’t look pretty and I thought there could be some bad SEO ramifications to having so many ugly affiliate links. After all Google […]
Continue Reading: Jump Link Tutorial for Affiliate Web Sites
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Here is a short video of Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team, discussing snippets.
A snippet is the information that appears about your web site when it appears appears on a search engine results page. A snippet will usually contain your web page title and meta description, but there is more to it than that. In this video Matt uses Starbucks as an example to explain a few things about the information that appears in a snippet.
The one thing to take away from this video, is that no matter how well your site ranks in Google, your snippet can be the deciding factor on whether someone visits your site or not. So the more you know about them them the better…
Continue Reading: Google’s Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets
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Do you manually change the copyright year on every page of every web site you maintain sometime in January every year?
If so, then this PHP code will make it so you never have to again.
© <?php echo date("Y");?>
The code above will show the © symbol and the current year. For example: © 2007. On January […]
Continue Reading: Web Developer Time Saver: Copyright Year & Today’s Date in PHP
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Earlier this week I showed you how to get search engine credit for Flash content.
Today I am going to show you a simple time-saving technique I use to pass text into Flash through a variable that is set in the HTML.
The problem
For many of the web sites I design I create the title graphics […]
Continue Reading: How I Save Oodles of Time by Passing Text into Flash with Variables
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Back when Flash technology was new, many people opted for all Flash web sites because of the ‘cool’ factor.
Today we see a lot more hybrid web sites (html sites with some Flash elements) because all-Flash sites are a nightmare for search.
Search engines have a very hard time knowing what text is in your […]
Continue Reading: How To Get Search Credit For Flash Content
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We got a call the other day from a prospective client telling us that another interactive agency in town was claiming that they made the Crawford Group web site which we actually created a few years back.
The best solution to this problem would have been to put a signature at the bottom of the site that says ‘Website designed by Kinoli‘. This is not always possible for us because we work with a lot of creative agencies who prefer that we don’t put a link on their site back to ours. In return, many of these agencies outsource all of their web work to us.
Continue Reading: How to Create an Alert Box in Flash
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