A fantastic guide to Search Engine Optimization for Web Designers, providing good rules to follow when designing and building websites, including advice page titles, content, links and how search engines work.

One good example of bad Title Tag use would be the default WordPress theme. In case you didn’t know, the title tag of the default WordPress theme isnt that useful: Site Name > Blog Archive > Post Title. Why isnt this…

Design is concerned with seeking visual solutions to problems, and planning how to correctly arrange elements. An artist has the same search for the best way to express an idea. Although there may be no rules in art, here are a set of 27 guidelines to help in the creation of some visually successful work.

12. Emphasis We are constantly barraged with images from advertisements, TV, books, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. We take the abundance for granted and this makes the designer/artists job that much more difficult to get the attention of…

Earlier this this year, we commented on the infamous Steve Jobs quote “…the fact is people don't read anymore,” arguing that, people do read, they just prefer to do it online. However, in this transition from page to screen, a question has risen: are people really reading online content or just scanning page? Apparently, it's the latter.

I typically scan all my unread subject lines throughout the day. If something looks interesting, I start reading - if it looks like I can get the gist of it in a couple of minutes or less, I go ahead and read (or skim it now). If it…

Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys.

I don’t my ISP does anything. But back here in India the speeds are very slow anyway. Currently the max plan they have is for 2 mbps unlimited. 8Mbps costs a lot and have to pay for additional bandwidth.

Dying?

Nobody knows how committed Facebook is to improving the platform or the role applications are meant to play in the overall Facebook ecosystem. Signals like the reduced level of direct participation in the developer community, increasingly…

Thousands of discarded computers from western Europe and the US arrive in the ports of west Africa every day, ending up in massive toxic dumps where children burn and pull them apart to extract metals for cash.
“Ghana is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for waste from Europe and the US,” according to Mike Anane…

Six years ago the EU produced the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive, which introduced new curbs and restrictions on the movement of e-waste. The directive, which came into effect in Britain in January last…

Google has just begun supporting Unicode 5.1, less than one month after it was released. It’s now available in search, so people speaking languages such as Malayalam can now search for words containing the new characters in Unicode 5.1. Web pages can use a variety of different character encodings, like ASCII, Latin-1, or Windows 1252, or Unicode.

You can see a long-term decline in pages encoded in ASCII (unaccented letters A through Z). More recently, there's been a significant drop in the use of encodings covering only Western European letters (ASCII and a few accented…

Workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones — and unhappy with Windows — are demanding Macs at the office. And bosses are saying yes more often than ever before. Is business ready? Is Apple?

What's less obvious is that the enthusiasm is starting to spill over into the corporate market. It's a people's revolution, of sorts, with workers increasingly pressing their employers to let them use Macs in the office. In a survey of…

Time Warner Inc's AOL unit, RealNetworks and Yahoo Inc could stand to pay up to $100 million in royalties owed to thousands of songwriters and publishers, after a federal judge established a formula for determining the payments.

The decision by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York sets a formula for potential license fees on songs played by the three online services from July 1, 2002 through December 31, 2009, the trade group said.

Lam threw open the door to his room and plugged his SLR into his MacBook Pro, with photos of scoops shots of CES. While he waited for the photos to upload, he logged on to Engadget to keep tabs on his nemesis. And that’s when he saw it.
Photos.
Of the same 150-inch television.
Posted 15 min earlier.

And like a couple of rival hometown newspapers, Engadget and Gizmodo have seen their competition develop into a full-blown feud, complete with charges of malfeasance and sabotage. Engadget rarely links to Gizmodo, and often it's to…

Some obvious, and some not so obvious, hints to keep your email in check.

Many of us are obliged to join up to mailing lists for social or work or family reasons, even though most of the messages are irrelevant to us — for example, a list for planning an annual event in which you play some small part. Resigning…

Keep your sites off of the search giant’s hit list. Google is one of the Internet’s darlings, universally loved by just about everyone. Everyone, that is, but webmasters who’ve had their domain networks wiped from Google’s results.

At some point, the mysterious workers behind http://eval.google.com are going to visit your site. Here's how to be ready for them.

Morgan Stanleys Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports - the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet (Yahoo apparently read it).

Live.com is not a social website (assuming they are referring to the search engine Live.com). But MySpace (obviously) is. The slide in question that you pulled the key takeaways from (#8) is highlighting sites which moved…

Learn all the htaccess tricks you will ever need.

Another effective way to block an entire range of IP addresses involves truncating digits until the desired range is represented. As an IP address is read from left to right, its value represents an increasingly specific address. For example, a…