Archive for August, 2006
Navigating to the site map
Posted on 30. Aug, 2006 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
Down in the bottom, right corner. That will be where the few Websites that still have it, place a tiny link to their site map.
As site maps are both a great way for users to find their way trough content-rich sites, a great accessibility feature and the most effective way to ensure that search engines is crawling the entire Website, this ought to be different.
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Multiple download methods
Posted on 22. Aug, 2006 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
To provide readers with alternate download methods is a popular way to save on bandwidth costs.
Here is a recommended layout for multiple download methods:
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Setting preferred domain name
Posted on 13. Aug, 2006 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
With help from the Google Sitemaps program, Websites can no set if they would prefer their domain to be included with or without the www. prefix.
And here is how to do this:
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Stretchable pages
Posted on 10. Aug, 2006 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
Many Webpages are what we call stretchable
. This means that their width is variable and not a fixed value. The page then conforms to the width of the readers browser-window and screen resolution.
A huge problem with these pages is that they work exactly like rubber bands. They will stretch and stretch until they finally break.
Here is how to prohibit these stretchable sites to be stretched too far:
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Using search to boost Alexa ranking
Posted on 06. Aug, 2006 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
Search is a great accessibility tool and many Websites integrate search for Yahoo! Search and Google to their Websites.
Here we will look at the advantages of integrating search from the young search service A9 and which advantages this have over other search providers.
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