This is post #4 in "The Black Hat Series" – a series of blog posts aimed at educating website owners about the promise and pitfalls of Black Hat SEO strategies and techniques. The last post in this series described Search Engine Guidelines – where they are, and why they are important. This post looks at [...]
Adapting to New Technology (AJAX)
As everyone knows, technology is always changing and advancing at a rapid rate that makes it difficult to keep up with. The web is no exception to this as I found recently. Last year I had a break from web programming to work in another field and in the meantime a technology called AJAX up [...]
One image CSS menus
If you are a frequent world wide web surfer, you might have noticed menus on some websites where the hover state of a navigation item takes a second to load. This is probably because the menu is image based and the inactive and hover states are created by two separate images. This means that the [...]
Call me crazy….
There’s that something about a ringing phone. For me – I have a few reactions: I smile, and rush to pick it up because I can see the number and it’s someone I’ve been dying to speak with I cringe, wondering if I have the energy for a conversation that I assume is coming I [...]
Adobe AIR
Nearly everyday I see something new on the web that is innovative and pushing the boundaries. Whether it be a funky web design, a powerful graphic, or something more technical, it is apparent that the users experience on the web is forever changing. Not that we didn't all know that, but with the rapid adoption [...]
