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Technical Terms and Abbreviations Explained – FTP
FTP mean File Transfer Protocol and is an open standard TCP/IP protocol for transferring files from one computer to another. FTP is a popular file transfer method although users should be aware that FTP is not the safest of file transfer methods and data send may be vulnerable to interception.
Any computer system, regardless of operating system can use FTP and although not completely safe is simple method of transferring data reliably and efficiently over networks.
Visualscope Studios
Visualscope Studios is a top notch web design and development firm specializes in advanced web development, website design, e-commerce and search engine optimization. The Seattle web design company has many years of experience under its belt and its capable web professionals will help you to maximize the potential of your website by giving and attractive and optimized web presence, which might be the edge you need over your competitors.
Visualscope’s comprehensive list of web design articles coverage topics such as search engine optimization, business and web development just to name a few goes a far way in helping web savvy site owners to get the most of their websites. Although based in Seattle Visualscope’s services are available globally so be sure to visit their webpage to view previous projects and get even more information on how this web development studio can help you.
Firefox 3 Beta 1 Released
The first beta release of the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox 3 web browser is available with a slew of new features, updates and fixes. Please note that release is only for testing purposes and there may be many bugs that have yet to be worked out. Also note that current Firefox extensions may not function with the Firefox 3 beta release. Download and evaluate the latest beta version of the popular open source browser in your native language at the Firefox website and be sure to read the official beta release notes.
Release Notes Excerpt
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues. Gecko 1.9 includes some major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.
IZEA’s “RealRank” to be Alternative to Google’s “PageRank”
It’s only been a few weeks since the big pagerank branded stick of Google slapped around thousands of websites who were known to or suspected of selling text links on their webpages without using No Follow. A few days however some of the ranks went back to their regular numbers while others stayed hit and this left many website owners puzzled. Over the past few days however the pagerank issue is once again in the air as it seems that many websites are finding not reduced ranks like a few weeks ago but the loss of their pagerank all together. It’s been pointed out that link selling is again the major culprit with special emphasis on blogs who offer sponsored posts or reviews.
Graphical Representation of PageRank
These bloggers are crying foul as many believe that they are fee to do whatever they want with their own websites as long as these paid posts are disclosed and made clear to be what they are.
In comes RealRank
The parent company, IZEA, of one of the biggest paid post firms, PayPerPost, is busy highlighting the flaws in Google’s PageRank rankings while busy developing their own ranking system called RealRank.
The problem with Google PageRank is that it is both self serving and irrelevant to actual traffic and influence. The arbitrary and unpredictable nature of this ranking system has left both bloggers and advertisers longing for accurate statistical data since long before PayPerPost.
Instead the some what monopolistic nature of Google’s ranking and algorithm RealRank proposes a ranking system more up to date and more useful to websites, primarily blogs. This system ranks websites by traffic and inbound links and is expected to be rolled out in a matter of days.
Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta Invitation
We at Caribwebdev.com have been invited to take part in the Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta. So far their have been a few hiccups with the service, but we are now able to access it and will be looking at it’s features over the next few days using caribwebdev.com and other websites in the Heat Ray Media group of websites.
So look out for our first impressions review in a few days.
Extend the Functionality of Flash
Flashloaded.com is a website dedicated to creating and providing cost effective add-ons or components for the Adobe Flash platform. Flash components add new functionality and features to Adobe Flash and helps web developers to add features to their websites with little or no coding or other intensive work necessary. Flashloaded.com is a retailer of various Flash components in many categories such as 3d, sounds and video, menus, navigation, charts and more.
Using ready made components is very advantageous and web developers can save time and money by using a streamlined product from a third party such as Flash Loaded instead of trying to develop the component themselves. Flash Loaded specializes in Flash components so you can rest assured that they are competent in their business and have thousands of satisfied customers.
designersPoll by Flashloaded.com
An example of one of the useful components created by Flash Loaded is 3DPieChart. 3DPieChart helps users to create professional, interactive 3 dimensional charts in little or no time. These charts are perfect for online presentations and projects. Another example of a very useful and easy to use component created by Flash Loaded is designersPoll. This component helps to create simple, clean and stylish web polls to collect feedback from website visitors, it collects and stores data using an XML file instead of a database and prevents multiply votes by a single user by using browser cookies.
These and many more Flash components are available on Flashloaded.com.
Yahoo Search Builder - customizable search engine
Google may be the leader in the search engine market, but Yahoo Search is still a important search industry player and internet powerhouse. Yahoo Search Builder is a powerful, easy to use tool provided by Yahoo which enables anyone (primarily web professionals) to create customizable search engine experience for any website. All that is needed is a yahoo email address and in literally minutes anyone start using Yahoo’s search technology on their own website to search the entire web, within a specified website and much more.
Simple Steps
- Navigate the Yahoo Search Builder homepage
- Log in with your Yahoo id
- Define your search engine by choosing a name and search type
- Design search box by choosing the width, colours and encoding
- Customize and brand your search box with your logo, fix it to match the colours of your website among other options
- Test created search box and add the generated code to your web page.
Graphical Representation of Steps
Create multiple engines for multiple websites and view statistics independently with this very useful tool provided by Yahoo. Please read through the Yahoo Search Builder help files if you have any problems with these steps or ask your questions in a comment.
