There’s a reason why every single news article you read today, whether at the New York Times or on an individual blog, has one or more links to submit that article to a social media service – the publisher wants the massive traffic a Digg or a Reddit can deliver.
Where Websites Are Concerned, Less Is More
I chanced to find a most staggering item on Karen Blakeman’s Blog entitled UK Government to Close Down Web Sites.
UK to Shut Down Most Government Websites
The British government has announced that it will close at least 551 websites in order to streamline as part of a plan to revamp its online presence. The decision is outlined in the Transformational Government Annual Report 2006, which was released earlier this week.
Google Customer Feedback Form for Ranking WebSites
As I was doing my regular (track orders) reports I’ve clicked through a URL to see our company’s Order Thank you page (the one customers see when they hit SUBMIT at the end of their order process).
Localized Websites and the html Tag
For a website that supports multiple languages, it is important to tell the client what the selected language is.
Top 20 U.S. Websites
The results are in! The names of the top 20 U.S. domains have been released, and you might have guessed the winner.
Quality Niche Content Websites
Niche websites:
Success of Fast Loading Websites
I covered Marissa Mayer’s talk at the Web 2.0 Summit that focused on how Google has really learned the value of speed in their web applications. It seems as if there was much more said about this topic years back when everyone was on dialup modems.
Internet Now Serves 100 Million Websites
The World Wide Web was created as a mechanism for scientists to post text and images, and share them with colleagues. Keep that in mind the next time you visit sites with Flash navigation, embedded videos, sound clips that play when the site loads, and advertising on display.
Why AJAX Websites Taste Like Fast Food
If you have ever bought a hamburger and fries from an efficient fast-food outlet, you will easily understand the web development concept called ‘AJAX’ (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)…