However over the past 10 years the term “SEO” has been aimed at the wrong target, and thus spawned the “SEO Guy” Job, I’ll explain what I mean.

These “SEO Gurus” are the guys who hack the page to get the poor search engines to list the content top and not for the benefit of the users, So 7 times out of 10 the content is probably not even relavent! This I have always seen this method of SEO “hacking” as wrong and Google too now agree’s.

Infact Google wants the users to be the targets of the terms and content and not the search engines algorithm. This in my opinion is where it should have always been aimed its just alot of people have been so caught up with the play of the “SEO” buzz word that they’ve missed the point entirely!

To anyone that knows me personally my theory has always been if you can’t write some good informative content, then your site won’t rank as well as you need it to, but if you do write good content and you include the correct tags for this content and it’s correctly coded from day one, you won’t ever need to buy SEO services from anyone EVER, as it will ranks correctly for the content you have hosted!

Now Google has released a video with the way in which they are now looking for genuine content and exactly as I have described above they’ve backed up everything I’ve been saying for the last serveral years. God bless Google!

Anyway have a watch I’ve embedded the video below. Enjoy

Editors Note: My intentions of this post is not to offend anyone who is in the SEO, or Marketing Profession as this is just an opinion that I’ve had for well over 6 years now. However if you do feel you need to comment to air your views and/or defence (and I always love to hear other peoples opinions), then please do so in the comments below.

Thanks, Dan Cunningham

I took it upon myself (with some advice from a few friends) to actually write some new code and create this archive. At the top of this page you will see a “Resources” link. Inside that page is an archive of everything I’ve tweeted with a preview of the site I found it upon. If you click the URL or the Preview then you will go directly through to the original resource. So for those who follow me on Twitter, you can just visit that page from now on rather than having to favourite every tweet.

How it works…

It’s really self explainatry, but basically I make tweets to other design and development resources that I find and read daily online.

I Tweet said resource:-

After the tweet has been made, My site instantly creates the page of the URL I tweeted, giving you a preview of the said resource origin page.

Then just click the link or the preview shot of the resource site and you’ll get the original resource.

I hope that helps everyone!

“Can You Feature My Resource?”

Sure, If you’ve created something cool, possibly unique or even free, Let let me know! I always love to see new things so I’ll definately take a look. If it meets the critera I’ll tweet it and feature it in the resources archive too.

So drop me a message either on twitter or via the contact link in the header of this page.

Regards,
Dan.

Until i did a bit of looking around in the settings…

Firefox 4, The new look…

So Firefox 4 looks like this…

As you can see, New orange button in the top left, Which may i add is annoying, as this is where all the options are for the browser e.g Tools, Bookmarks etc…
The tabs bar is now abovethe address bar, which is also highly annoying as Im so used to that being below the address bar.

Firefox 3, The target look.

The Firefox 3 browser looks more like this (see below) and thats the look and feel that Im aiming for with Firefox 4.

How to Make Firefox 4 look like Firefox 3

So… Lets look at making it look like Firefox 3!

Launch Firefox 4 and install the Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4 add-on.

Of course a restart will be required to complete the process… (as always with new plugins!)

Next, Right-click an empty area to the right of a tab and click on Customize.

In the Customize Toolbar screen click on Restore Default Set

Right-click an area to the right of a tab again and check Menu Bar.

That gets rid of the Firefox Menu button and replaces it with the Menu Bar like in Firefox 3, Now we’re cooking on gas!

Click on View >> Toolbars and check the Add-on Bar.

Go back to View >> Toolbars then turn off Tabs on Top.

Another thing you might need to do is go back into Customize Toolbar and move the Home icon from the right side of the screen to the left.

And That’s all there is to it! Now you have Firefox 4 with all it’s under the hood benefits, but it looks like Firefox 3 which may be more familiar for you.
What do you think? Do you like the new layout of Firefox 4 or would you rather have it look like Firefox 3? Leave me a comment below and let us all know!

This is a common error that occurs when some element on a secure web page (one that is loaded with https:// in the address bar) is not being loaded from a secure source. This usually occurs with images, frames, iframes, Flash, and JavaScripts. There are a few ways to fix it:
1. Change all URLs to https

Just open up the offending web page and search for http://. Change the references on all images, iframes, Flash, and Javascripts to https://. For example.

<img src="https://www.domain.com/image.gif" alt="" />

This may not work if you are loading an image from another site that does not have SSL set up. Also, with this method you’ll be loading SSL images even when the client is loading from a non-secure page. This will add extra processing load on the server and client. This is definitely not recommended for a high volume site.
2. Change all links to // or make them relative

Rather than changing all the links to https://, change them to just //

<img src="//www.domain.com/image.gif" alt="" />

Alternatively, if the images or scripts are located on the same domain, you can access them relatively, rather than absolutely:

<img src="image.gif" alt="" />

Using this method, the browser will know that it must load the image securely if the web page is being loaded securely but it will also load the image normally if the page is not being accessed securely. The image will still need to be available on the other server securely. This is likely the best method of getting rid of the pesky “Do you want to display the nonsecure items?” warnings.
3. Change the browser settings

It is best to change the code of the page that is giving the error, but if you don’t have access to change the code, you can always tell your personal web browser not to display that message. To do so follow these steps for Internet Explorer:

1. Go to Tools, Internet Options.
2. Select the “Security” Tab and then click on the “Custom Level” button.
3. Scroll down until you see the option: “Display mixed content”. Select “Enable”.
4. Click Ok. Then you will get a “Security Warning” pop-up. Click Yes.

One common reason that this warning shows up is using normal Google Analytics code on a secure page. It is a simple fix to enable Google Analytics on a page using SSL.

If you use the unsecure Google Analytics code on one of your secure web pages your web browser will warn that there is some page content that is not secure. This problem can be easily solved by slightly changing the code used to load Google Analytics.

Instead of:
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
Use:
<script src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>

If you still get the "page contains secure and nonsecure items" after changing that code you should check for other page elements that are using http instead of https.

Google’s information about using SSL with Google Analytics is also available.

Update: Google has now updated the Google Analytics code to use ga.js instead of the urchin.js file. In the process, they have implemented code that will automatically detect whether http or https needs to be used. The new code will also enable new features so it is recommended that you upgrade. This will solve the SSL problem so you won’t need to worry about the solution above. The upgrade instructions can be found here.

In an announcement earlier today, the Google (Google)-owned online video service stated that an HTML5-compatible player was the #1 request of its users. HTML5 is the upcoming new standard for the markup language behind most web pages, one that supports video, audio, drag-and-drop, canvas drawing, and many other new features and APIs.

Since HTML5 supports video embeds, YouTube has rolled out a version of its player that runs just on it. No browser plugins (e.g. Flash) are required to watch videos that support HTML5.

There are limitations, though. It doesn’t work with videos that have advertising, captions, or annotations. It also only works with HTML5-compatible browsers, meaning Chrome or Safari or Chrome Frame for IE if you so choose not to use a third party browser due to its looks/navigational differences.

You can take a look at a demo of the new HTML5 player here. As you can probably tell, it could use some more work, but YouTube promises to improve the interface over time.

We think this is a step in the right direction. While we don’t think Google should just switch over to HTML5 (Flash just allows for more functionality), we do think user should have the option. This is great to see a big website moving up in the support for new browsers and newly impressed code. I hope this means that someday the guys over at http://www.w3.org do make a HTML string that denied the use of Internet Explorer 6 though! *kneels & prays*

Source: mashable.com

I moan a hell of alot at work about the annoying browser that is known as Internet Explorer 6, I hate it with a passion!

Reasons:
- It’s outdated (was introduced in 2001!)
- It incapability to handle PNG transparencies!
- It’s very slow at rendering PNG Hacks
- It’s very unstable especially with Javascript.
- It’s rubbish with alot of the common CSS values and functions.

This list goes on and on… So im not going to point any of the more obvious things like the fact that its very hackable via ActiveX, and various other back door loops.

Anyways to further this rant, i’ve added the “Bring down IE6″ logo to the bottom left of my page.
You can read the full article on the .NET website here.

If you wish to join this following, then follow the link and add the CSS and THE BDIE6 Logo to your own site!

/end of rant! (for now, at least!)

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.

The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say. Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it.

New source: bbc.co.uk

This goes without saying, Everyone should use and support Firefox, In my honest opinion its far quicker and more user friendly!

Since using the sIFR Method to replace the text headings on my site, I’ve become a victim of incompatibility issues with new versions of flash.
sIFR 2.0 – version(2.0.5) failed to detect the Flash 10 player, and therefore falls back to normal HTML text.

This had previously been resolved in sIFR 2.0.6, however an issue remained with Safari. There is a second Flash version detection, which had not been fixed, and resulted in transparency support being disabled for Safari browsers with Flash 10 installed.

If you are upgrading from sIFR 2.0.4 or older, you must upgrade the sifr.js JavaScript file and re-export your sIFR Flash movies using the sifr.fla file from sIFR 2.0.7.

If you are upgrading from sIFR 2.0.5 or 2.0.6, you must upgrade the sifr.js JavaScript file.

Download sIFR 2.0.7.
sIFR Wiki.
Support forum.

Detailed Description

sIFR 2 uses the same Flash detection that was originally used in its precursor, IFR, back in 2004. Unfortunately this detection script only expected single digit Flash versions, so it fails to detect Flash 10. This has been fixed in sIFR 2.0.6. However, I missed a second Flash version detection, which was used to check for transparency support in Safari browsers. Back in the day, Safari did not support transparency with Flash 6, so an explicit check for Flash 7 was added. The second version detection failed to detect Flash 10, disabling transparency support under Safari.

Thanks to Giancarlo Gomez for originally pointing out the problem with the Flash detection, and Marco Della Pina for pointing out the Safari problem.

Source: NevemberBorn.net

Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

Link: Official Download Day Page
View: Time Zones of the official download time

Not only is it slow, Firefox sometimes hangs for no reason, consumes a large amount of memory and CPU usage can climb to 90% or more when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously.

You have uninstalled most of the extensions and toolbars, deleted all the cookies and internet temporary files, cleared up the file download queue and disabled the background check for software updates – but none of this has helped you speed-up Firefox.

Solution: This is a common problem especially if you have been running Firefox for some time – I don’t know why Firefox slows down but here’s a small trick to rejuvenate the aged copy of Firefox without doing a fresh install.

Step 1: Start Firefox and export your bookmarks as a file on your hard-drive (we’ll need them later).

Step 2: Type firefox.exe – P in the Run box of Windows. (see screenshot)

Step 3: Click the Create Profile button without making any modifications to your existing profile (which is normally called “default”)

Now when you Start Firefox in the new profile, you are very likely to be impressed with the speed. You can import the bookmarks that you saved in Step 1. If you have made any changes to the Firefox Dictionary, copy the persdict.dat word list file from the old profile folder to the new one.

Yes, there won’t be any old Firefox add-ons in the new profile but the browser will be extremely quick and won’t hog the CPU – just the way you want Firefox to run on your computer.

And if you ever need to revert to the old profile, just type Firefox -P again and click the old profile. Nothing is lost.