Category: UsefulLinks

Page Rank Tool for the Google Toolbar-Free Crowd

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If you don’t use the Google Toolbar, but would like to know your site’s PageRank value, here’s a tool that will do the trick. PageRank Lookup – SEO Tools – Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization. PageRank reflects both your website’s popularity, but also the “worthiness” of the sites that link to your site. A high-quality site linking to your site can increase your PageRank value.

I picked up this tool from a tip on Entrepreneur’s Journey which has this good article about PageRank as well as all sorts of SEO information.

Image Placement, not image replacement

Thierry Image Placement I’ve never had a lot to say about Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) techniques because they all had one sort or other of accessibility problem. Various image replacement techniques are enormously popular, however, and are the trick that makes CSS Zen Garden work so well. But this article from TJK Design seems to offer ways of using images in place of text that resolve all the problems associated with the various techniques.

Spend a few bucks, save lots of time

Two articles by Sheri German at Community MX explain their collections of CSS snippets for Dreamweaver. CSS tutorials – Introducing the CMX CSS Snippet Collection – Part One – Intermediate tutorials for CSS and Part Two. Not only do they provide the snippets to install in Dreamweaver, but they also provide tutorials that explain what each snippet does and when it is needed.

Electronic reference library

Safari Books Online is the home of Safari® Tech Books Online, a service that offers IT professionals instant access to the full text of hundreds of leading technology books right at their desktops. When you subscribe to the Safari service you can access the latest titles from the world’s foremost IT publishers. The Safari Tech Books Online service offers the latest titles from Addison Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, O’Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR and many more.

Accessibility advance for people with tremors

IBM News – Adapter lets mouse trap hand tremor movement. “IBM researchers have invented a computer mouse adapter that eliminates cursor movement caused by hand tremors. Similar to the way camera image stabilizing systems work, the new adapter filters out the shaking movements of the hand. It is designed to work with any PC and operating system.”

Sybex sponsors Digital Photo Contest

Sybex Photo Gallery explains how to win $1,000 from Sybex.

Send your best 3 digital photos to www.sybex.com between now and 4/1/05 for a chance to win up to $1,000 and publication in a Sybex book. The judge will be Tim Grey, author of Color Confidence (read my review here) and Photo Finish from Sybex.

1st Prize: $1,000 and publication in a Sybex book

2nd Prize: $500 and publication in a Sybex book
3rd Prize: The Digital Photographer’s Library (retail: $99.95), with books by Mikkel Aaland, Peter K. Burian, and Tim Grey.