POSTED: Friday, February 27, 2009

Improve Page Rank by Paying Attention

Again this week I read a good deal of misinformation from some otherwise knowledgeable coders concerning Google Page Rank.These folks were saying things like themore hits you have to your web site the higher your Page Rank will be and the web site with the most incoming links will have the highest page rank.Neither statement could be further from the Truth.Mathematical PageRanks (out of 100) for a simple network (PageRanks reported by Google are rescaled logarithmically). Page C has a higher PageRank...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Friday, February 27, 2009 in Beginners (3)

POSTED: Thursday, February 19, 2009

Breadcrumb Navigation Example and Code

One of the most visited examples of our site is the Bread Crumb Navigation Example. Breadcrumbs are usually positioned horizontally across the top of a webpage below any title bars or headers linking back to each previous page through which the user navigated.Breadcrumbs provide a trail for the user to follow back to the entry point of a website. Generally, a greater than (>) glyph is used as hierarchy separator like:You are here: Home > Blog > BreadCrumb Navigation ExampleWe use a few...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Thursday, February 19, 2009 in Beginners (3)

POSTED: Friday, February 13, 2009

Prevent image stealing?

Welcome beginning coders! Every Friday we'll put in a bit of advice and code inspired bythe questions we receive while moderating several web development forums.Some of the questions are quite interesting and make us take a fresh eyes look at issues put to rest years ago. This isn't one of them.Repeatedly we get requests from folks on how to prevent image stealing. With the anecdotal increase inFaceBook stalkers we've had multiple requests this week to show how to layer a transparent image on...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Friday, February 13, 2009 in Beginners (3)