Building Websites

This Wikizine covers building/maintaining websites from a slightly more technical level. This includes Content Management Systems (CMS), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, XHTML and other internet technologies. Techniques for increasing traffic to a website are also of interest.

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A Skeptic's View of Technorati and Zimbio

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From: hdrlab.org.nz

Since signing up to both Technorati and Zimbio yesterday , my skepticism has not decreased regarding how helpful these sites are likely to be for promoting new blogs. Both operate in very different manners, but neither appears to give much space for new blogs. Let us have a look at both sites, what they offer, and what the issues are. Technorati This site is the closest to a combined directory and seach-engine that I have seen so far. Users can sign up an submit their blogs. Each blog has a ranking and "authority" value. The authority value is based upon interest/links from other users. ... Read Full Story

Did a Mac User Just Subscribe?

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From: hdrlab.org.nz

Looking through the log generated by the web-server, I noticed that a user agent called Apple-PubSub has been accessing blog/rss/, which is the RSS feed for this blog. Apple-PubSub is the name of Mac OS-X's built in RSS reader. If you are the Mac user (or one of the Mac users?) that subscribed, welcome; if you are not, welcome too. This is an example of the wealth of information available in the logs. Whilst this may sound a little scary to some, there really is nothing to worry about. There is nothing sinister going on; nor is it a case of big-brother watching. In ... Read Full Story

The Mind-Blowing Blogosphere

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From: hdrlab.org.nz

Given the millions upon millions of blogs in existence, and the thousands of new ones starting every day, some sort of directory or search-engine for blogs would make sense. Unfortunately, it appears that all too many people agree. A quick search for blog directory or blog search engine brings a mind-blowing number of hits. There is as big an overdose of blog directories and search-engines as there are blogs. This is probably fueled by reports that some people have made money off their blogs; the smell of money to be made bringing in plenty of entrepreneurs. For someone simply looking to let others know ... Read Full Story

Google Analytics Misses Things

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From: hdrlab.org.nz

I have suspected that Google Analytics hides things it doesn't understand for a few weeks now. Whilst I am not certain about that, it definitely misses some things, and gets others wrong. Let us examine what it misses first. Some old browsers register only the first page visited, and the rest are not counted. This results in Google Analytics marking their visits as "bounces," when these visitors did, in fact, view multiple pages. For example, Mozilla 4 and lower appear to cause this. Other browsers do not even register at all, resulting in uncounted visits. These details were obtained by comparing the results from ... Read Full Story

Why use XHTML at all?

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From: hdrlab.org.nz

I decided to add a Google Adsense bar discretely at the bottom of the page, and once again, I had trouble with Firefox. Internet Explorer displayed the page just fine, but Firefox added the new advertisement below the existing ads at the top of the page. This is the second time that I have had trouble with XHTML and Firefox. The first issue was due to Firefox not supporting the Document.write() Javascript method. I solved this by using Weston Ruter's Javascript code that replicated the missing method when needed. Unfortunately, Weston Ruter's script does not support a special case in which two Document.write() calls ... Read Full Story

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