CALENDARS and coffee table books filled with pictures of cute, cuddly kitties and sad-eyed puppies have been around for decades. So what explains the success of Cute Overload, a new page-a-day desk calendar that recently shot to the top of its category on Amazon.com and, more remarkably, to the upper ranks of the site’s overall best-sellers list?
We have outgrown our original system, which was designed as a lightweight user-friendly Content Management System evolved into the lighweight Scalable Dynamic Community Content Management System. Hence is the change in it's name to better represent the system: Pi-Project. Effective: system 5.1.1 and higher.
"An information retrieval system will tend not to be used when it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it."*
Calvin Mooers
*Remarks by Calvin N. Mooers during a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Documentation Institute, october 24, 1959.
Version 5.1.1 includes changes to the User Interface in administrative mode both for registered users and the administrator.
- Registered users will be able to edit or delete only their entries.
- Only superadmin of the site will be able to see the e-mail address associated the user that posted an entry. This feature will enable the superadmin to withhold posting privileges from the rogue users. Visitors to the site, on the other hand, will not be able to see the e-mail address associated with the user's entry, which protects the privacy of the user.
Most knowledgeable webmasters find the idea of moving the site from one platform to another, from one domain to another, or both as a rather scary process. The reasons are rather simple.
First of all, setting up Redirect 301 or other blanket redirect from one domain to another is hardly going to work for all visitors. Run a simple Google search on the terms link:yoursite.com and see how many external pages are linked to your site. Well, you have to contact all of them and ask them to change the old link.
Second, open Google Webmaster account and see how many pages from your site are indexed in the Google Search Engine. Yes, you have to set up an individual redirect 301 for each one of those pages. Same goes for images. Those redirects can easily run into thousands individual redirects for a dynamic site.
If you still feel that you absolutely positively must move your site to a new platform and have a few hundred of hours of disposable manpower to do so properly, read a few recommendations from Google. Making a site is a rather simple process in comparison with retaining the precious Search Engine presence and ranking.
In business, time is money. Nearly half of all home users have narrowband connections and they won't wait for anything: they just click away, which means lost sales or readership.
Web site optimization (WSO) is the process of reducing website size and complexity to maximize website performance. Website optimization can also include search engine optimization, pay per click optimization, and conversion rate optimization (getting more traffic and sales).
Use this fabulous tool to analyze your Web Site Optimization performance.
And keep in mind that performance of your site is far more important than fancy flash graphics, widgets, pull down menus and third-party Java script files, which not only make parts of your site's content invisible to Google but also mean visual clutter, poor user interface, slow connection times, and ultimately, lost sales.
Without much thought nor hesitation I would recommend to everybody to block IPs in the range of 222.208.0.0 - 222.215.255.255, and 125.64.0.0 - 125.71.255.255 which belongs to CHINANET Sichuan province network — the homebase of some of the world's most dedicated and prolific spammers. They actually enter it manually.
No wonder unemployment is so low in China.
The function of Google's Friend Connect social widget service was intended to let web sites owners to add a snippet of code to their site for users to register, receive invitations, post messages and reviews. However, the Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever found out after testing Friends Connect that the data can be redistributed by other developers without the knowledge of the users, which is against the very strict company privacy rules.
"Just as we've been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand, we've had to suspend Friend Connect's access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance," Cheever wrote in his web log.
While banning Google's Friends Connect widget, Facebook is about to launch their own Connect service. Both companies are trailing behind the My Space's Data Availability service.
While it might be of little concern to the average users, it shows that their personal data is in high demand.
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