Google announced this week that the speed of a page is now being considered as part of how they rank pages on a web site. This has some people happy, others scrambling. There are a couple of things which need to be considered with this news. Google uses over 200 factors to "grade" a site, determining where it should be placed in the search engine rankings. Adding 1 additional factor, unless it is a large factor should have little effect on the search results. "All things being equal I … [Read more...]
posted on January 28, 2010 by
Today is Data Privacy Day
I don't know about you, but I'm always a bit paranoid with how much information is out there about me. Whether it comes from Credit Card receipts, or data stored on other people's servers. Whether it is your information, or your customer's, you should always mindful of how personal information is being used. This is the idea behind Data Privacy Day (http://dataprivacyday2010.org/). Personal identifiable information (PII) while necessary to have in many businesses needs to be handled with … [Read more...]
posted on November 9, 2009 by
Happy Birthday Firefox!
Firefox turns five today. For some, they remember what the Web was like in 2004 - Internet Explorer 6 was the dominant browser, and had not been updates in 3 years, web technology was stagnating because of it. Now, browsers are faster, and doing more - new standards are coming out (HTML5, CSS3, AJAX libraries, and more) - and while the techno-babble means little to many, it also means everything. It means websites that can do more, and do it faster. It has also heralded other browsers … [Read more...]