Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Search Engine Optimization

One of the most important things to do with your web page especially if you are going to make profit from your web pages in any way is making it easy to find to all search engines, including the not too popular ones... But for the most part trying to trick search engines usually backfire, Don't jam as many words in as you can, especially repetitively, for one thing that is plain dirty, two it usually won't work. Though it is true that search engines pick partially because of matching the search words, it is made to be able to tell when you jam it all in to try to make the top of the list. Trust me... It will back fire on you if you use this common technique. Buying links and piece of crap user experience (too many ads, to hard to get around, etc.) will also get the search engines to intentionally ignore you. Trust me again, you would be stupid to try to win a super computer built for chess at it's own game, you would also be stupid to try to trick search engines at their own game... The people who program search engines intentionally find all these little tricks and make them backfire on you, they may be jerks in a way (when people try to trick their search engines), but they protect all the users out there trying to get a good experience, they do an amazing job at that. Instead try to have good content, performance, user experience, and are you more of your own site, or are you more of a reference to other sites?

Here is a link to an article with more information: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2259693/SEO-Basics-8-Essentials-When-Optimizing-Your-Site

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Plug Ins

Back when the world wide web just barely began, about the only things you could send or use was text, links, and pictures, but no one likes limitations most of the time, so people created plug-ins. Plug-ins are simply software like Adobe Flash Player, allowing you to do stuff, like chat rooms with multiple friends, even face to face, videos, games, more interactions. In fact your web browser doesn't interface with a plug-in nearly at all, in a sense it gives it a corner and steps aside a little bit, causing the plug-in to work with most browsers and create a risk for you browser security. This can create huge problems... really big problems especially if you are running plug-ins that aren't up to date. If you use and old plug-in, anyone out there can see what extra security they added in the last update, then make loop holes into your security through the missing security features in your plug-in. But the risk is lowering, some browsers even automatically update some for you, for example Google Chrome worked with Adobe Flash Player to allow Adobe Flash Player to automatically update itself while you run Google Chrome, but even as they are starting to find ways to updated themselves, it would definitely be a good idea, just to see if you are running the most updated versions.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Reason For Updating Your Browser

Ok... One thing to start out: Please Don't Take This Too Offensively, but if it applies to you I suggest you take this advice: UPDATE YOUR FREAKIN' BROWSER NOW!!! YOU ARE RUINING NOT JUST YOURS BUT EVERYONE'S LIFE INCLUDING ME, IF YOU AREN'T RUNNING THE MOST UPDATED VERSIONS YOU CAN GET!!!! Well Anyway, the point is you need to update your browser as often as you can... Using an old browser is one of the worst decisions you can make for your computer almost as bad as downloading a Trojan virus by accepting an obviously fake rogue anti-virus program (for more info and a quiz on rogues go to microsoft's website, it is actually pretty cool and interesting) but anyway having an old updated browser opens your security and passwords to all of those hackers and viruses out there... You often become a target of identity theft, malware, viruses, and even broken computers and hard drives, so really UPDATE IT OR DIE!!! (Just FYI the or die part is probably just to add emotion). Not updating it is an extremely easy thing to do, but usually updating it is too... If you don't update it, it not only effects your identity, computer, and security to everything on your computer or internet, but it also makes all of the web designers, programmers, and computer engineers lives ALOT harder... So go, stop reading this, make sure your browser is updated! GO!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

HTML5

HTML5 is an updated version of HTML allowing users to create and use sites with easily accessible or embedded videos on the web page, as well as allowing users to use web apps without needing an  internet connection or WiFi. HTML5 also allows dragging and dropping allowing, well, dragging and dropping, like when attaching files to emails, etc. Unfortunately in order to use these features you need to have a browser that can run HTML5 code... Luckily though, today most browsers we use are updated to the features of HTML5 and can be downloaded for free. Most people I know use Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Internet Safari, which are all updated to this standard and available to download for free. Even those who use other browsers are usually updated enough to access all these features that are now available to users by HTML5 code and the programs that read and run it. Learning HTML5 is an invaluable tool and useful skill to have and continue to learn throughout life.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Web Safe Colors

    Colors are simply the way our brain interprets electromagnetic radiation within the color spectrum. Computers trick our minds by making groups of 3 by 3 dots of green, blue, and red so close together that our minds will usually trick itself into believing it is seeing a canvas of color, not dots. Any color in the spectrum can be generated this way, by having 256 shades/variations for each color, you can generate anywhere within 16,777,216 different colors that then can display in groups of dots for your brain to see. By doing this you can see what you are doing on computers, and makes them usable and easy to change the colors you see or the text you see. Even this text is made of tiny dots arranged to show my ideas, but there are such things as web safe colors which can be used on the web. These are specialized colors that can be used on websites internationally, other colors only some can see, which can make big problems for web designers and anyone wanting to make a website. This is why you should always use web safe colors on your pages.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

HTML Javascript and CSS

   

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       When programming and using websites there are three codes/programs that are needed to make that page possible, without any of these, all websites would be useless or even inexistent. You see every website, every image, every video, every game, every download, every comment page, everyone's youtube pages (by the way subscribe to me at youtube.com/Sonorous Turtoise for all your gaming needs) relies on these three simple concepts.
        Html is THE BASIS FOR ALL WEBSITES, period.  HTML CREATES ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT!!! Okay, not quite but to all those people who spend all their time on their phone or computer scrolling up and down the screen due to boredom, or watching youtube videos no one would ever dream of wanting to watch, it is their life... so in a way it is true I guess. But without Html NO website would be possible.
        Secondly is Javascript. Javascript lets you connect and do commands in a split second, without this email, surveys, etc. wouldn't work, and games would have A LOT of trouble as well as videos. This allows the ability to take a quiz, test, or survey, then see your answers and scores within seconds, not years.
        Next is XHR which most people using the internet have never heard of, yet they use it every day! This allows stuff such as games, maps, and surveys without reloading the page.
        Without these your life would be meaningless (really). 

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

What Is The Internet...

The internet is something all of us use, often times on a daily basis, the internet connects most computers together into one small space where we can share data, video, games, communication, etc. The internet started as a simple project/experiment made by some researchers in 1974 calling it the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP for short) which connected a couple of computers in the same room allowing them to communicate according to the rules which the Internet Protocol Suite placed to help communicate. The Internet Protocol Suite made rules to which computers would communicate (like the rules of grammar) so computers and their users could communicate in various ways and understand. As this experiment started in one room it later spread to buildings and countries and later became the world wide web as we know it. When people use the internet it is extremely user friendly helping you find anything you want to know on it, yet most people don't think of the equipment used to make the internet usable and faster, such as fiber optic cables, but whether you think of the equipment or the communication of the world wide web, the internet is as big part of life now as we are.