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Archive for February, 2008

Metrics to gauge a site’s worth

Topic: Software| No Comments »

The first is Google’s “PageRank”, which is a number from 1-10 that is displayed in Google’s browser toolbar. My photography site, The Lens Flare, bounces between a 4-5 on the homepage. PageRank is a measure of links across the web that point to a particular webpage (assuming that the person didn’t add “rel=nofollow” to […]

Xcart 4.1 and CDSEO module creates bugs in the Review module

Topic: Programming, Web Design| 3 Comments »

Xcart is a fairly popular e-commerce shopping cart program, and one of the add-on modules that you can buy from a third party company is called CDSEO. This rewrites all of the links to be SEF using a folder-style syntax instead of the regular ?variable=value syntax.
However, it causes some problems with X-Cart. One […]

Making CSS layouts work in the 3 main browsers: IE6, IE7, and Firefox 2

Topic: Web Design, Web Design 101| No Comments »

I recently redesigned my photography website, The Lens Flare. I had Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 installed, and thus wrote the site to make it work with those browsers. Once I had it working on those 2 browsers, I tried it on IE6 and the template was horribly screwed up. Here, I’ll […]

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