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Should I still design for the 800×600 screen resolution?

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

It’s a tough choice: should we ditch 800×600 screen resolution users? By designing your website width a width of more than 780 pixels (800 pixels screen width minus the browser scrollbar), you are not really ditching these users. However, you are going to make their browsing experience less convenient, since they will have to scroll […]

What is Web 2.0

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Perhaps you wonder what is this web 2.0 thing you keep hearing about.
Web 2.0 is more of a concept than a set of standards, an overall improvement of the website. It involves using AJAX, web services, RSS feeds, compliant XHTML, CSS and similar technologies which you can find on websites such as Technorati and Digg.
Also, […]

Google Video Ads

Monday, March 13th, 2006

It didn’t suprise me when the first video ads by Google started to show. Burst! Media and other companies also announced video ads, and Google coudn’t miss this chance. Currently the video ads can be rarely seen, but Google will probably starting displaying them to all publishers using AdSense, soon.

Redirecting from http:// to www

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

The title is not entirely correct. What I’m showing you here is how to return a 301 (Permanently moved) response to the browser and the search engines, when they access your website via http://websitename.com instead of http://www.websitename.com or www.websitename.com.
The major advantage for this is that you will transfer the Google PageRank from the http:// URL […]

New Live.com shows the power of Ajax

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Live.com was updated recently. There’s a new interface, new features and improved search engine: Windows Live Search, which is supposed to replace MSN Search.
What’s amazing is the overall user experience which Microsoft managed to achieve using Ajax on Live.com.