Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.live.com is same as http://live.com . But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate entries. This will split the rankings among them and...

I love SEO :D That's the reason I'm participating in a Spanish contest of SEO, which goal is to positionate the word " comunactivo " on www.google.es. The Web on first position on December 15 at 12:00 am will be the winner. So, if you want to help me, please link to http://comunactivo.subgurim.net/ with...

Listen to the Show! Michael Neel joins us today to discuss search engine optimization specifically for ASP.NET websites. Michael C. Neel is a Digital Media Developer with Jewelry Television and independent consultant with ViNull Software. He is a board member and Vice President of the East Tennessee...

Update 14-10-2008: I updated the liquid layout stylesheet. It is now simpler and works fine in safari as well. I added an attachment (LuaLayoutStatic.zip) containing three html examples and the stylesheets and updated the original template in this post. The static one can be found in an additional post...

Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 is finally out , and standards-aware developers should rejoice: the de facto standard browser is now more standards-compliant than ever. Converts beware: wicked Internet Explorer 7/6/5 hacks will simply render wicked things in Explorer, and that is a very good thing. Yet, you...

Time to dive into real chapters! Chapter 1. 99.9% of Websites Are Still Obsolete Most sites on the web have been built with only major desktop browsers in mind. This makes sites incompatible with screen reading software, mobile devices and the like. Modern Browsers and Web Standards No browser is perfect...

Zeldman aloud: Designing with web standards - the ASP.net companion #3 I'll try and finish the introductory section all in one shot. Not too many ASP.net stuff here. Good read nevertheless! Ending the Cycle of Obsolescence Loved this phrase: short-sighted proprietary "solutions" that contain the seeds...

Still in overture mode I guess... Spiralling Costs, Diminishing Returns Some coding tricks (such as using nested tables for layout or font tags bloat our pages. This swelling causes users to wait longer for our sites to download and increases our expenditure in hosting. Having to code different versions...

Well people, I guess it's time to begin my reading aloud of Designing with Web Standards, Second Edition , by his standards highness Mr. Jeffrey Zeldman . Part I: Houston we have a problem Before you begin The main reasons for following standards when developing web sites are: Financial Developing becomes...

If it happened to CodeProject , it can happen to you. Just as the findability guys say , SEO tricks are cool, but might be pointless if your markup neither valid nor semantic. We at Aggiorno have just made this short video to try and illustrate this idea. What do you think about it? Are we overemphasizing...