Montly archive for 2006-08

Navigating to the site map

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2006-08-30

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

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2006-08-22

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

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2006-08-13

With help from the , 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

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2006-08-10

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

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2006-08-06

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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