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Jill Whalen is a leading expert in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) and the head of High Rankings. Meet Jill Whalen. Q: Tell us a little about your background and training before you became the woman behind High Rankings. A: Since I started online in the early 90’s I didn’t have much background … Continue reading “Women in Tech: Jill Whalen”
by Web Teacher product Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank is from Sitepoint (2008). It’s a small book of little more than 100 pages. It’s mainly about various CSS display properties that create a table layout appearance. … Continue reading “Review: Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong!”
Is an iPod may be on your shopping list for this holiday season, or perhaps on the wish list you’re submitting to Santa? As part of my series on iPods, this article will tell you some things about iTunes. I’ll explain about setting up playlists, using the Jukebox, getting music from your CDs into iTunes, … Continue reading “Understanding iTunes and iPod”
Meet Addison Berry, a woman who traveled a roundabout path into tech and is now one of the most visible leaders in the open source content management world of Drupal. My thanks for Addi for agreeing to answer some questions and let us get to know her. Q: Let’s start off with Drupal. You work … Continue reading “Women in Tech: Addison Berry”
Everyone has heard of search engine optimization, right? But have you heard of findability? I hadn’t, until recently. The term “findability” seems to originate with Peter Morville, who published a book called Ambient Findability in 2002. Blogger DonnaM wrote about it in 2004 in Usability testing for findability. Jakob Neilsen wrote about it in 2006 … Continue reading “Findability: Is your blog as findable as possible?”
I’m still amused by Apple’s Mac vs. PC guy ads, especially the one where PC pokes his head up out of a pizza box and explains he wants to attract college students. Microsoft apparently decided it was time to try it’s own version of funny ads. Microsoft has teamed up Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld … Continue reading “Gates and Seinfeld Selling What Exactly?”
Have you ever added a new rule to your CSS stylesheet, but seen no change in the results on the page in the browser window? Maybe the new selector wasn’t specific enough to overrule and existing rule in your stylesheet. Here’s how to mathematically calculate the specific weight of your CSS selectors. The W3C uses … Continue reading “Tip: Calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors”