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Flash content now spidered by Google
It looks like the battle against sites built on All Flash technology may have lost some ground. One easy way to steer development away from “flashy” sites with things flying in and out everywhere has been that Flash sites “can’t be indexed by search engines”.
Google killed this argument last week when it announced that this is a shortcoming of the past.
from Google Webmaster Central Blog:
“Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.”
To me, Flash site development still tends toward tiny unreadable text and annoyingly long page transitions. I like Flash, in it’s place - there are things that html still cannot do that flash can ( even with the help of ajax)… But do we really need more All Flash sites? […]
Download the new Nine Inch Nails for free
I am glad to see some bands are thinking out of the box. NIN and a few other bands have decided to let fans download their music for free. Big Head Todd did it back in December - but they just gave away the MP3s. Nine Inch Nails let’s you download their new album in 6 different flavors…
- high-quality MP3s (87 mb)
- FLAC lossless (259 mb)
- FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb)
- M4A apple lossless (263 mb)
- high definition WAVE 24/96 (1.5 gb)
All you have to to is give em your email address to send you the link. 100% free and legal tunes, “all files are 100% DRM-free.” What are you waiting for, download the free NIN album now. Oh, and have your torrent client ready. Most of the downloads (except the MP3s) are by torrent.
PHP - Pagination With PEAR and MySQL
We’ve all come across pagination, from using google to browsing amazon you’ll have seen pagination before. It’s the numbered pages at the bottom of a given page to paginate the results into multiple pages.
Okay so the usual way of paginating mysql result sets within php involves code that looks something like this:
$total_pages = ceil($total_records / $products_per_page);
for($i = 1; $i < = $total_pages; $i++){
echo "” . $i . “”;
}
if($_GET['page'] >= 1){
$current_page = $_GET['page'];
} else {
$current_page = 1;
}
$offset = ($current_page - 1) * $products_per_page;
$sql = “SELECT * FROM table_name “;
$sql .= “LIMIT ” . $offset . “,” . $products_per_page;
While this is fine for quick hack job scripts. We as programmers have access to a solid framework in the name of PEAR. Within PEAR a package called Pager can help us enormously.
Paginating with PEAR […]
Can designers now ignore what a site looks like in IE6?
Can someone explain to me why a designer thinks that he can just ignore what a website looks like in Internet Explorer? Hey - if you want to boycott IE on your personal site, more power to you. But the reality is that IE6 exists and it doesn’t support PNGs and a bunch of other stuff that would be helpful.
It has always been a challenge to design for multiple browsers, especially if you have let go of evil table layouts. With the addition of IE7, we have some additional challenges. But the reality is that IE6 will be around for a while. Can we expect all of our clients and their site’s viewers to upgrade or buy a mac or switch to Firefox? I think not - I still have clients use AOL and still have no idea that there is a web outside of AOL.
Seriously - how can a site that looks like this in IE6 end up on cssmania…
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BBPress theme Crystal : updated
There has been alot of interest in the BBPress theme, Crystal - so I went ahead and improved-slash-updated it for the current version of BBPress, “Desmond” version 0.8. I fixed the issues with cross-browser compatibility and the code now validates. And no more bugs (that I can see).
You can view the demo here and download the updated code here.
google-hosted gmail for your domain
I have been testing the new gmail “google apps for your domain” service for some months now with great results. Although, when I first switched over, the service was down for a day or so and I panicked. Mail was being returned to senders and I thought I had made a big mistake. I temporarily went back to my normal mail server, but the amount of spam the filters were not catching was too much to bear. So, I went back to hosted gmail and haven’t had a problem since. I tried to keep my domain’s mail server as a backup server, but then all of my client’s email (on the same server) defaulted to server - so I bit the bullet and deleted the backup mail server settings. […]
IE7 standalone runs alongside IE6
I have been dreading the thought of “upgrading” to Internet Explorer 7 for the simple fact that I need to know what my CSS design looks like in IE6 too?!
I have been using my laptop with IE7 installed to fix the mess in some of my websites, but it didn’t seem like a long-term solution.
I remembered a while back hearing about a way to install multiple versions of Internet Explorer at once, but I figured it would be too much to ask for this to be possible with version 7. But, it is possible! […]
essential photoshop tool you may not have noticed
The shadow/highlight tool adjusts shadows and highlights in photos better and easier than any other tool. Still using “Levels” and “Brightness/Contrast” to adjust images? Check out this tool in action. […]
Unobtrusive iFrame with JQuery
I couldn’t find a great way to do an iframe in an xhtml site and stil maintain accessibility - until I came across malsup’s media plugins. They basically create a link to the swf, mp3, or quicktime and replace the link with the content via a custom class on the href tag.
So, I figured, what a great way to do an iframe, too. Something like […]
To err is human
hi all-
My name is Warren Cardinal. I am a web developer in Austin Texas.
err… I just bought the site 33rockers.com from Karthik (he is 17, btw - for those of you who asked). […]