The Google team recently took some time to address a common question. How can I improve my search engine rankings? To wit they created several small, concise guides about search engine optimization for you to download. These guides are easy to understand, and include lots of images for us visual-minded folks. I suggest downloading and reading them over when you have a chance. Many of the techniques are already known, but the explanations and visuals about how and why they improve your search results help greatly.
November - 24 - 2008
November - 18 - 2008
The Problem
I’ve enounterd the need for this on several projects and thought it might help. In this case, I didn’t want the featured slider to appear on every page, as it was located in the header. You too, may want to display page-specific headers based on certain conditions. Well, it’s not that hard with the “if” and “else” statements. Get ready to learn some very basic PHP!
November - 5 - 2008
I recently came across a few interesting sites that offer tips and tricks on how to tweak Firefox; if you’re like me and want your nine tabs of data-heavy websites to run at hyper speed, check out these links. Most notable were the speed tweaks, which I can say increased this things effectiveness. Having used it for a few days, I can tell it helps speed things up, plus it’s interesting to know about these kinds of things.
How to turbocharge Firefox
21 Firefox hacks and tweaks
Speed up Firefox
Bonus speed hacks
I figured I’d post up the best speed improvement hacks for Firefox right here, since that’s what you want, right?
To switch Firefox from a six banger to a v8, type “about:config” in your address bar and hit return. Then modify these lines as shown:
network.http.max-connections 30 to 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8
network.http.pipelining false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
