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Yahoo makes semantic search shift

Posted Mar 14th, 2008 at 12:38 by welshstew
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?
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SEO Geo-Targeting

Posted Feb 15th, 2008 at 20:51 by welshstew
Updated Feb 15th, 2008 at 20:58 by alexgeek
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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Internet & Isolation of Society

Posted Feb 8th, 2008 at 08:06 by 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,...
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Latest metrics on web design

Posted Jan 28th, 2008 at 09:30 by welshstew
Updated Feb 29th, 2008 at 23:45 by welshstew
Here are some of the latest metrics on where we web developers spend most of our time when developing / designing sites.

Enjoy.

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CSS Specificity

Posted Jan 8th, 2008 at 12:24 by welshstew
Updated Feb 29th, 2008 at 23:45 by welshstew (added resource)
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

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