So, Yahoo has announced that it will make much more use of the "sematic web" to return search details

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7296056.stm

What are your thoughts?

welshstew

in order for websites to be successful they must rank highly for search engines, sometimes locally, sometimes globally, depending on the site.

there are a number of ways you can geo-target your website to a local country:

• domain - TLDs often indicate where a site is located and will often rank higher in their corresponding local SE's
• IP addresses - often a cause of contention, but google themselves have started that in the absesnce of a TLD they do look at IP addresses
• google

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welshstew

During my university years (2000) I started to research a paper around the internet and its impact on society.

My basic premise was that although the internet is a global tool, that will encourage cross border collaboration, co-operation and integration / understanding of different cultures, it will also see the demise of social skills. The interaction between people on a face-to-face level will suffer, as all we know is how to txt tlk. lol.

Unfortunately,...

welshstew

Here are some of the latest metrics on where we web developers spend most of our time when developing / designing sites.

Enjoy.

WelshStew
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welshstew

I was having some issues with my CSS Specificity, which I won't bore you with here, when I came upon this great article.
Star Wars CSS Specificity :starwars:

Although a bit old now, it helped me understand and solve my issue.

I hope that you also find it useful.


edit: I also just found this article which expands on the ideas

WelshStew
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welshstew