Blocked pages can still appear in Google. Before you step on your soapbox to rant about Google’s violation of robots.txt and the company’s abusive control of the web, take a little while to understand how and why it happens.
via Why Pages Disallowed in robots.txt Still Appear in Google.
Freelance designers are faced with the challenge of constantly finding new work and converting inquiries into paying clients. There are plenty of different ways that you can market your services, but sometimes the most effective ways involve passive marketing.
In this article we will be looking at ten different ways you can passively market your services [...]
We all know that Macs aren’t the most affordable computers on the market. Purchasing one can take a big chunk out of a web designer’s budget and leave little to purchase software. Thankfully, there are alternatives to the expensive software that we need to do our job. Here are 14 Mac applications that will have [...]
The CSS Awards website is like a regular CSS gallery on steroids. It’s not only a showcase of some of the most kick ass web designs around, it also gives a break down of each site and what they rate the sites in forms of design, creativity, usability and content. Today we’re going to feature [...]
Free high-quality Wordpress themes are getting harder to find these past few months, primarily due to two main reasons, a lot of new platforms are being developed and introduced lately and many theme designers these days would rather sell premium themes than develope free ones. But inspite of the free Wordpress theme deficit, we were [...]
WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner. Unlike WordPress 2.8, which Mark Jaquith describes as the Snow Leopard of WordPress since most of the basis of the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was complete rewrites and optimization of the infrastructure that ran WordPress instead of providing lots of new features in the same way Apple’s new OS [...]
If you use Wordpress as a CMS for your clients’ websites, you’ve probably faced that issue: regular people find Wordpress hard to use. Yes, it is quite user-friendly, but apparently not enough for people who double-click on links when browsing or worst, enter their website’s url in Google to get there. To make it easier [...]
Speed is a relative term. Someone surfing the Web on a high-speed Internet connection might think the interaction is fast, but it’s probably not as speedy as, say, flipping through pages in a magazine.
Google NASDAQ: GOOG, which has long said it’s made speed a top requirement in the design of all its services, thinks it [...]
The underlying language used to build web pages is being substantially re-written for the first time in a decade.
The W3C, the web’s primary standards body, is revising HTML with an eye on improving the performance and capabilities of rich, browser-based applications. One of the great promises of HTML 5, the emerging standard, is that content [...]
At the Google I/O Developer’s conference today, the message has been clear: programming for the Web is the way to go. Sure, native apps are still important but the future is on the Web.
To drive home that point, consider the popularity – as well as the limitations – of netbooks. The miniature notebook computers have [...]
So, do you care if you should use Internet Explorer 8? If you have always used Internet Explorer and don’t really care about running a different browser then install IE8 – it will be a good improvement. If, however, you are running a lot of Web applications such as Google Apps or Yahoo Mail then [...]
It’s not the only free-spirited font installed by default on most computers, but it’s almost certainly the most widely, and often inappropriately, used. If you had your way, would Comic Sans ever see the light of day?
via Lifehacker – Should Comic Sans Be “Banned”? – Fonts.