If you have ever studied search engine optimization, then you’ll know that most educators place tremendous importance on performing good keyword research. After all, it’s true that we need to optimize our pages for the best phrases, or we will never realize our true traffic potential. It’s all about trying to attract the ideal audience of searchers to our Web site, right? Is that not what most of people do? They build a Web site offering their business services, then they say to themselves “How do I get traffic to my site?” For many Web site owners, their source of traffic is an after-thought.
Exploring Data Islands and Web Services
Please note – Data Islands are exclusive to Internet Explorer!
This month we start a two part series on Data Islands. Part 1 explores how we can use Data Islands to embed XML and XSLT into a browser, and manipulate that data using DHTML. Part 2 will illustrate Data Islands and Data Binding, and how to update data from the browser with Web Services and XMLHTTP.