WYSIWYG editors for HTML are fraught with problems, as discussed in a previous post. This post is a quick look at why WYSIWYG editors would be important for content producers and offers some links to tools and research that people are doing. Continue reading
Yahoo and Microsoft provide some improved search tools. Yahoo’s is a dynamic URL rewriting capability so you can tell the search engines which querystrings can be ignored in a URL. Microsoft’s Live Search announces a new SEO tool for webmasters, similar to the Yahoo and Google’s Continue reading
‘Search engine optimisation’ (SEO) can be a misleading term, because natural search engine strategies often involve two areas: search engine indexing and search engine ranking. At a high level,
A useful article compares tagged PDFs generated from Acrobat, Office 2007 and OpenOffice, looking at how each tool (or plugin) provides various options for tagging PDFs so that the output will be more accessible. The test document is just a simple one, and even there differences can be seen! Continue reading
XSLT tips for cleaner code not only helps with maintenance and readability, but some of these also help improve performance. The first in a series of XSLT posts, this one concentrates mostly on cleaner coding. Tips cover areas such as xsl match templates versus named templates, xsl:for-each versus match templates, optimising use of variable declarations, using in-built XPATH functions for performance and easier to read code, and more. Continue reading