Internet Explorer 8 Beta Released
Internet Explorer 8 beta was release a few weeks ago and is intended to be used by web developers and designers to ensure that their web pages are compatible with the next release of the market leader in web browsers on Windows computer systems.
Internet explorer 8 intends improve on many of the faults of it’s predecessors, focusing more on increased security, web standards compliance and usability while adding new features to enhance the web browsing experience.
Internet Explorer 8 beta can be downloaded and evaluated from the off Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 page.
Feed Validator for Syndicated RSS and Atom Feeds
Feedvalidator.org is a website hosting a feed validator for syndicated RSS and Atom feeds. Recently there were some problems with the Caribwebdev.com RSS feed and this feed validator helped to diagnose the problem which turned out to be a outdated plug-in for the website.
The feed validator is written in the Python programming language, is open source and can be run from any web server that meets the requirements. Visit feedvalidator.org to diagnose and fix problems with any RSS or atom feed.
W3 Schools – vital resource for Web Professionals
W3school.com is a free online resource for tutorials related to web development, web programming, scripting and other web building topics. The information on w3schools.com is vital to any web developer looking for a free, easily accessible and professionally created resource.
Newcomers or Professionals
No matter what level of web development you are at or how many years you have been professional you will always find this website as a useful tool to acquire new information and skills or to practice or brush up on existing skills. If you are new to web designing or a student your learning experience will be helped by the streamline and step by step format of each lesson, complete with examples, tests and quizzes.
Nofollow Attribute
The “nofollow” attribute was created by Google in 2005 as a measure to control the large amounts of spam and “link plugging” that was overrunning sites such as blogs, guest books, forums and any other site that offered site visitors the opportunity to post any information or feedback directly to the website. Please note that “nofollow” is a non-standard HTML attribute value.
Google gained the support of it’s competitors and other two major search engines MSN and Yahoo who also had problems with the high volume of spam being indexed by their spiders. The nofollow attribute basically marks a link, telling search engines not to index the link or include it in any of it’s rankings and sometimes even search results.
Nofollow Attribute Example
<a href=”http://www.websitecom/info.html” rel=”nofollow”>text for link</a>
Regular Hyperlink Example
<a href=”http://www.websitecom/info.html”>text for link</a>
When to use the Tag
The Nofollow tag should be used anywhere on a page where site visitors have the ability to add links to to the page such as guest books and blog comments. The tag can also be used when linking to sites not supported or even to competitors as to not contribute to higher rankings of their website.
