links for 2007-11-17
http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites-what-they-are-why-theyre-cool-and-how-to-use-them You’ve heard of them, but… Do you really understand them? The name might be a little misleading, because sprites aren’t little images like you might be picturing, a sprite is actually one big image. Have you ever seen the CSS technique where the (tags: css web-design css-tricks css-help images image-help css-images) CastingWords: Podcast Transcription [...]
Ajax and Search Engines
The Google Webmaster blog has a post today about how to develop search engine friendly sites, even though they use Ajax. One of the things that the post reinforces is that we still live in a world where crawlers have problems with Ajax and Javascript. They do include a nugget on the optimum way to [...]
MySpace Joins OpenSocial
MySpace is adding some serious clout to Google’s freshly launched OpenSocial. The popular social networking site has signed on to be a part of Google’s APIs for creating social applications on the Web. In a press conference Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, "The broader story is the Web has moved to the next state. We [...]
Google Makes Brand Advertiser Push
Google has launched a new format for AdWords advertisers: Gadget Ads. Gadget Ads are an interactive ad unit that will appear on sites in the AdSense content network. Gadget ads can include things like data feeds, images, or video and can be developed using Flash, HTML or a combination of the two. They support both [...]
Go Go Google Gadget Ads
A new interactive ad format has entered the world of widgets with Google’s release of Gadget Ads, touted as ‘Websites within Websites’.AdWords has a new toy for its advertising clients. They are called Google Gadget Ads, and have been in testing in a limited beta form for several big-name brands. Google said its Gadget Ads [...]
Neat CSS Trick
When adding CSS style to pages, I usually do it using the regular css attributes (class and id), or I just add a style to a regular html element.Now there’s another way to add styles that basically lets you add styles based on any html tag attribute.For example, in the a or Anchor tag below, [...]
Google Maps can now be integrated using HTML
Google announced today that they have simplified the method for integrating Google Maps on to your web site. The new method allows Google Maps to be integrated using simple HTML. As a result, integrating Google Maps no longer requires a knowledge of Java Script, and you no longer need an API key to do it. [...]
Google Teaches Robots Tool About Sitemaps
The robots.txt analysis tool at Google Webmaster Central received some much-needed updating, and should be more effective for webmasters today.Google followed up webmaster feedback about the need to upgrade the Webmaster Central robots.txt analysis tool with a new version. The latest update makes the tool capable of recognizing sitemap declarations and relative URLs. The Webmaster [...]
Windows Live Takes A SkyDrive
The product formerly known as Windows Live Folders has been renamed and opened up to people in the US, UK, and India.Microsoft’s Windows Live-branded online file storage service received a new moniker as the beta opened up to a broader audience. SkyDrive allows people to store files and share them with friends or the public. [...]
Fred Thompson’s Webmaster Doesn’t Know Dmoz
The potential Presidential candidate’s campaign doesn’t know why a Google listing for his official website has a description they didn’t write. We know what happened.A Knoxville TV station reported the confusion at the Thompson camp over what Google has to say about the candidate’s I’m With Fred site: Type the phrase “Friends of Fred Thompson” [...]
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