Comments(2) We know a little bit about how google ranks keyword placement. And I will try to get you up to speed on the most relevent areas where you can improve your site’s visibility to Google and other search engines right away. This post is part of the series, Ultimate Guide to SEO. I recommend reading the entire serires to get the most of this article. Read more »
Comments(1) This post is the first part of the series Ultimate Guide to SEO. To get the most out of this article you will want to read the entire series. Read more »
Comments(3) Face it you can have the best site in the world. But if it isn’t Seach Engine Optimized (SEO) you won’t have much for visitors. Search engine optimization can lead to a difference of being on the 30th page of google right up to being on the first page. Usually it is not the content or the lack of incomming links that is driving your page to the bottom. It is a problem getting your page to be more “machine readable”. You have to look at your page from Google’s perspective. Read more »
Often times we will use bash to create scripts for backing up or transfering files. A lot of times these files are transfered over a mounted network share or an external usb drive. Since these mount points are not always mounted we need to come up with a script that will detect the mount before we perform our operation. I have come up with a script that I think is simple enough that uses df and grep to detect the mount. Read more »
Comments(0) Yahoo’s Website Performance Rules - This is a must read if you develop websites. The author is the cheif optimization engineer for Yahoo and author of High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
5 Ways to Screencast Your Linux Desktop - If you are looking to make screen casts or video tutorials on Linux make sure you check this article. Read more »
Comments(8) After doing some research on embedding CSS in HTML I found an interesting link. It turns out that you can embed image data into your HTML URLs. This means that image will be downloaded along with the HTML reducing the total amount of server requests. If you could do this to all of your images you could effectively have a SINGLE request to download the entire webpage contents. Read more »
Comments(5) Most web designers know that reduced server requests equals faster load times. I got to thinking and I was wondering why is CSS always in a seperate file from regular HTML? Usually it is in a different file because you don’t want to make a ton of changes in individual files. Rather you would want to make one change in a .css file and have it change every page of your site; however, with PHP we can embed CSS into our HTML and still have only one file to make our changes. Read more »
Comments(2) There are a few different states you can put your computer into when you are not using it. If you don’t run any other services that require networking I recommend turning your computer off via standby. It will essentially put your computer into a ultra low power state only using enough power to keep the current state in ram. If you have a significant amount of ram 2gb or more you can easily put your computer in and out of standby mode in a matter of seconds. Read more »
