The Web Authority

Click our post title to go the a great site called Add This. I haven’t implemented the code yet, but will most likely this weekend, but now you can add automatic social bookmarking links to your website with a one click addition. Super simple and super easy.

On top of that Add This will even track the use of your book marks and your popularity. Great for a free service. If you are not sure what social bookmarking is, it is the new Web 2.0 buzz or simply a way for readers to interact and share your website with others using Digg, Yahoo, Google and Del.icio.us. So if you want to provide great ways to spread your news virally, social bookmarking is a must.

If you don’t monitor Matts Cutts blog, you should. He is the mouthpiece to our industry from Google. Here are his current words of wisdom:

If I were wondering why I didn’t show up in Google, I would review our webmaster
guidelines and read the information listed under Don’t
load pages with irrelevant keywords. As always, webmasters are free to do
what they want on their own sites, but Google reserves the right to do what we
think is best to maintain the relevance of our search results, and that includes
taking action on keyword stuffing.

When you read Matt’s full post you may get a laugh, but legitimate sites are using these techniques too. I just found a lawyer site that I do e-newsletters for that has white on white text on the home page stuffed with keywords.

You know some of these techniques used to be mainstream in our industry years ago to get placement, but now Google has gotten smart – very smart. If you use these techniques now, really you may be banned from Google as this one was. Then you’ll be hiring me to remediate your website and to contact Google and to get you back online. Services of that nature are expensive the best scenario is to simply not use them and to remove them if you are using them with a sense of urgency.

Don’t you hate these kind of problems? Here’s the scoop. If you have Firefox installed plus IE 7 have Vista and Outlook 2007, you may have run into this. All the sudden you can not click links in your emails and you get a message saying that there is some security policy on your computer that has disallowed and see your Network Administrator.

Okay that’s me and I don’t know what to do. Thanks to Tech Net, here’s the solution. When you install Firefox, something happens to your Microsoft system.

Go to the start menu and then select program defaults. Set IE up as your default browser. Close IE, close Outlook and voila, links are again clickable in email. I have just spent hours looking for the solution from Outlook settings to IE security settings. So you get the fruit of my labor. If this doesn’t solve your problem click the link in my post title and look at the registry key repairs that you may want to do as well, but for me this totally fixed my system.

Don’t do it! You’ll really regret it. In fact just today I bought GoLive 9 as an upgrade to GoLive CS2 as I have just moved to Windows Vista. I have already deactivated my software unloaded it and called Adobe to get a full credit.

I really like Adobe GoLive CS2. In GoLive 9, the first warning that you will be disappointed is the software icon. Toocky at best. Not sure who made that one, but I could have even done better. Usually an upgrade is an improvement over the previous version, but not in this case. Adobe did away with the preview view so to see your finished page you have layout view, source code view and PDF view? What’s that all about. What web designer cares what their page looks like as a PDF??? You have to open a new button to click live rendering to see your page as a browser would.

But wait it gets worse. I love in GoLive CS2 the point and shoot to add an image or link, and the ability to add hspace and vspace as well. Where is this in GoLive 9?? They have totally done away with drag and drop icons in layout view. This is totally crippling. To add an image now you click file, place, and then browse on your computer and add an image from In Design. Good grief, I don’t have In Design so I do not want tools except web designer tools. Also the code that GoLive 9 adds now is crap. When you transport your file to the Web, the images are broken as they are all smart images with references to folders that do not exist on your server. Jeesh, I could not uninstall it fast enough.

Looks like Adobe is forcing us diehard GoLive users into Dreamweaver in the long run. In the meantime, mark off GoLive 9 from your wish list and be glad that you have GoLive CS2. Hopefully that will be my work horse for a while.