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The Big joke topic

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:13:50 +0000

Hi friends,
It’s time to have some fun and relax. Topic title say it all, I will start:

A blonde, brunette, and a redhead escaped from prison. They were running along when they came upon a dock. On the dock were three gunnysacks. They could hear the cops approaching, so the brunette suggested that they get in the sacks. So they got in the sacks right before the cops arrived. A cop kicked the sack with the redhead in it, and she said, "Ruff ruff ruff!" He said, "Oh, it's only a dog."
He kicked the one with the brunette in it, and she said "Meow meow meow."
He said, "Oh, it's only a cat."
Then, he kicked the one with the blonde in it, and she said, "POTATOES POTATOES POTATOES!"

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Crawl budget

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:02:38 +0000

In an interview earlier this year Matt Cutts referred to "crawl budget". According to my interpretation, google may assess how many of the crawled pages get dropped due to duplication vs the total amount crawled. If this ratio is high, Google may determine the site has low quality and decide to pay less visits. Less visits means, less crawling and less indexing. A high ratio means the exact opposite. So plan your site ahead and use robots.txt as well as metatags like "noindex" and "nofollow" to your advantage.

Don't let googlebot do this job for you, or you can find yourself as the owner of a lower quality site on Google's eyes. Front run the bot! Below is the piece of the interview that speaks about this.

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Matt Cutts: That's correct. By far, the vast majority of sites are in the first realm, where PageRank plus other factors determines how deep we'll go within a site. It is possible that host load can impact a site as well, however. That leads into the topic of duplicate content. Imagine we crawl three pages from a site, and then we discover that the two other pages were duplicates of the third page. We'll drop two out of the three pages and keep only one, and that's why it looks like it has less good content. So we might tend to not crawl quite as much from that site.

If you happen to be host load limited, and you are in the range where we have a finite number of pages that we can fetch because of your web server, then the fact that you had duplicate content and we discarded those pages meant you missed an opportunity to have other pages with good, unique quality content show up in the index.
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And to work on duplicate files before googlebot does, this is what Matt Cutts said:

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Matt Cutts: It can work out that way. Typically, duplicate content is not the largest factor on how many pages will be crawled, but it can be a factor. My overall advice is that it helps enormously if you can fix the site architecture upfront, because then you don't have to worry as much about duplicate content issues and all the corresponding things that come along with it. You can often use 301 Redirects for duplicate URLs to merge those together into one single URL. If you are not able to do a 301 Redirect, then you can fall back on rel=canonical.
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Obviously, a good robots.txt should include all directories that may create duplication (archive, calendars, etc). And the use of "noindex" and canonical tags can also aid in avoiding the duplication effect. Overall, I think the intelligent webmaster should analyze its logs every day and check the crawling activity and what files are being fetched and very quickly 301 the ones that are duplicate or kill those pages that are worthless (noindex,nofollow) or add canonical tags if needed.

Here is the entire interview
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/inte...2510.shtml

Tough

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:18:07 +0000

It has become very tough to be naturally linked at present.

When I started, on December 1999, most folks would just link freely. Sure, there was no such a thing as "nofollowing" but webmasters would still have the option to think on the reciprocal before linking. Wasn't happening. In the early days of 2000/2001 many were just desperately looking for good resources and planted those links on their sites and blogs as fast as they could type. For webmasters, the strategy of providing good content worked wonders and third parties would find the content valuable and simply linked to it.

It is amazing how things have changed. There is just too much LINK AWARENESS. Webmasters and their second and third derivatives brothers and sisters (anyone in charge of publishing on the internet are way too "link self-conscious". Too much to consider it a healthy development. Serious sites would not link out to even more serious sites without a nofollow. And it is obvious that the reason is not because of lack of trust but for page rank efficiency, or perhaps fear of Google. I am now simply requesting, by hand-crafted emails, why be linked is important and provide proof of quality of destination pages. I simply ask to be referred as a resource hoping there are still good souls, hippie type, out there.

In the short term, the question would be how this affects the indexing and ranking of really valuable pages. And in the long term, how much the quality of the world wide web has deteriorated as a large chunk of what exists of high quality is left out.

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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:21:51 +0000

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Registration/Login on this site

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:09:37 +0000

Admin... did this theme come with a login box on the right hand side corner on this page http://lithium-media.net/member.php? And did you take it down? If so, do you mind sharing how you did it?

My registration page has that login box and apparently there is a conflict if a user is on internet explorer. Looks like ie does not like repeated fields for username/password. Then, when someone tries to register and tries to fill up the 2 password fields (for matching) the page shows a mismatch automatically. Remember, there is another password field on top in the login box.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

iOS Icons in Pure CSS

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:27:03 +0000

http://graphicpeel.com/cssiosicons
(best viewed in Safari 5, or Chrome)

That is just purely awesome. Uses absolutely NO images.

Rate the latest movie you watched

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:19:58 +0000

Just rate the last movie you watched.

Killers
7/10

Follow 4 follow at Twitter

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:18:56 +0000

Alright, I need to focus on getting a few more followers.
This simple: you follow me, and I follow you back. Everyone wins.

My twitter: http://twitter.com/faviouz

What's your favourite browser?

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:17:36 +0000

My favourite browser is Google Chrome. It's so fast, compact and secure. I love how it organizes and optimizes things into one tinny powerful browser.

And extensions are starting to grow as well, which is great. Still waiting for Firebug though, and YSlow/Page Speed.

Top 5 programs you use

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:16:21 +0000

You know, those softwares you REALLY need and use everyday.

Google Chrome
Pidgin
Adobe Photoshop
VLC Media Player
Steam

And you, what are the top 5 programs you use?

I Hate When Websites Do This

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:14:50 +0000

http://images.weirdlyodd.com/?p=30

It's so annoying. :-/ Pretty smart though, they must get a lot of clicks, and therefore a lot of money.

Favourite games

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:13:15 +0000

What's your favourite videogame?

I have tons of them, from FPS, RPG or casual games. But so far, the one that got me most addicted is definitely Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Amazing graphics, great campaign, cool multiplayer mode and many other things.

But here's a quick list of some other games I also like:

Pokémon Ruby, Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon HeartGold. (GBA/NDS)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. (NDS)
FIFA10 (NDS)
Counter Strike 1.6 (PC)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PS2)
Jak and Dexter (PS2)

And that's it. Now your turn.

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Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:12:01 +0000

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Do you draw mockups of your designs?

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:08:55 +0000

I always draw something sketchy on paper, write down some ideas and build the structure of the design. You eventually come up with even more ideas, and you just keep drawing until you have something solid.

I highly recommend you to do this, it's a good habit and it definitely helps. Get a notebook of some sort, and always have a pencil around you.

The Expendables

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:04:09 +0000

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Steve Austin. I think the names and the trailer talk by themselves. Has anyone watched the movie yet? I'm considering watching it on the cinema with my dad, not sure if it will still be up when he's available.

Horizontal Postbit vs Classic Postbit

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:03:04 +0000

Which do you prefer and why? Years ago I thought the classic postbit was better, but now I really like the horizontal postbit. Makes more sense and it's much easier to read imho. And doesn't waste much space if a post is too short.

What do you think?

/move to "Forum Administration" or a more appropriate forum.

Google Buzz: an epic fail?

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:01:53 +0000

I don't get it. Why didn't Google see this coming? They're such a huge company, they must have those professional SEO and marketing guys there.

Google Buzz is pretty much dead. A huge failure from Google. :angel:

All that buzz about it and the excitement... but as soon as it came out, I was like "uhh, that's it?". I tried to use it myself but it just didn't work. Twitter works best from me.

There are also rumors of a new social network from Google, called Google Me. Let's see what happens this time. Will it have the same faith as Google Buzz?

Wordpress owns the blogging market

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:34 +0000

Wordpress is indeed the best blogging platform, if not one of the best CMS too. It can be adapted to whatever kind of site you want: a blog, a full featured website or a gallery.

But for how long is Wordpress going to hold this position? I mean, there aren't any other decent blogging platforms available, there's one called Habari which at some point called my attention, but never heard back from it. Whenever I want to start a new site or blog, I head over to Wordpress.org to download Wordpress. I don't search for better options, Wordpress is just great and it works!

What do you think about this?

Do you support IE on your sites?

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:59:31 +0000

You know, do you fix bugs and optimize your sites for IE?

IMO it depends on the site. For example, a proxy site NEEDS to work on IE. Because proxies are often used at schools and libraries, where the only browser available is IE.

I myself try to fix them. Depends on the site though. Here's one tip: only start fixing bugs once you're finished with the design.

Do you have any cheatsheets?

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:58:13 +0000

I don't have them on my wall right now, but I really want to print a few. I believe they can come in handy, specially when you're learning a coding language and forget a few names, functions and other stuff.

The best place to get cheat sheets is: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/
I have the HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript cheatsheets downloaded. I really want to print them.