WYSIWYG HTML Editors
Posted on: Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 11:18 pm by Anup Shah
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.
Yahoo and Microsoft provide some improved search tools
Posted on: Sunday, September 9th, 2007 at 3:59 pm by Anup Shah
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
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Explaining Natural SEO: Search engine ranking vs indexing
Posted on: Sunday, September 9th, 2007 at 2:23 pm by Anup Shah
‘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,
- Improving indexing is mostly a technical task
- Improving ranking is mostly a business/marketing strategy (because search engines are trying to measure the popularity of your site, typically by understanding who links to your site and why)
- What might work now may not work in the future
- It all takes time to build good ranking
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Quick link: Accessible PDF comparison
Posted on: Saturday, September 1st, 2007 at 12:52 pm by Anup Shah
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!
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XSLT Tips for Cleaner Code and Better Performance
Posted on: Saturday, September 1st, 2007 at 11:48 am by Anup Shah
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.
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