I came across Search Engine Optimization for Dummies on Amazon today: After a quick tweet fuelled by my thoughts on the topic, I thought that I should perhaps elaborate on exactly what I meant.
I’m all for optimizing your website so that it is searchable; for example, from a development point of view you can do things like:

“prettify” URLs
create semantic page …

350 million users. That’s a lot of people, but is the quoted total number of Facebook users that was announced last Wednesday.
Although objected to by many, Facebook has undergone a set of significant changes across the site over the past year, perhaps the most prominent being the real-time news feed built from activity by users on your friends list, which …

There are no two ways about it: having something not dissimilar to this upholstered on your home page:

Looks tacky.
In a web dominated by the Google monolith, advertising on the web is something of a norm, and an easy way to make money from an otherwise free service, especially with the prevalence of the “give it away for free and make …

Opera is my long-time favourite and most commonly used web browser. I think that it’s a brilliant, well-designed piece of software, and certainly does it for me more than the other browsers out there, especially Internet Explorer. I’m not saying that it’s perfect, but it’s certainly the browser I use on a day-to-day basis. I have also seen Opera Software to …