Mark Newton
SmarterStats produces the reports you need to help monitor your web site’s position on the search engines Once your web site is up and running the work doesn’t stop there of course. It is important to monitor the traffic to your web site and for this a lot of people use Google Analytics, which is […]
Can I make a small plea to the search engines? Is there a way of displaying the creation date for a web page? This way we could see which were the most up to date articles which when looking for programming tips are most likely to be the most useful. I for one would love […]
SEO Toolkit analysis your web site like a search engine would and reports any issues it finds All these extensions are worth taking a look at http://www.iis.net/expand but one that is not really an IIS extension but a very useful tool nonetheless and that is the ‘Search Engine Optimization Toolkit’ (http://www.iis.net/expand/SEOToolkit) . This free tool will trawl […]
One particular client site has been occupying a significant part of my time recently. This site was built and launched just before Christmas and the client was obviously keen for Google to index the site as soon as possible. Now whilst Google may have its faults, it is one of the few search engines that […]
Once the correct file extensions are entered it produces perfect XML or HTML Site maps One way to make sure search engines index your site correctly is to provide a sitemap for them to use to find the pages. A site map in this context is not something that the visitor to your web site […]
One of the great things about having the opportunity to write for a magazine like PcPro is the chance to meet some of the movers and shakers of our industry, and sometimes get a glimpse of the possible future of computing. Sometimes these glimpses are in the form of a sixty foot multi colour PowerPoint […]
After building a web site and making it live the next very important stage is the monitoring of the number of visitors to the site. It is important to set this up before you start promoting the web site, otherwise how are you going to tell whether that expensive advertising campaign or the cheap email […]
Recently there have been some interesting developments within the Microsoft application development arena. Followers of this area will know that previously Microsoft has put a lot of work into XAML which is their solution for rich application interfaces and in direct competition with Flash. Like Flash, XAML required a proprietary player called Silverlight; however no […]
VERDICT: An excellent read. A history of the World Wide Web by the man who invented it. PRICE: £12.99 SUPPLIER: Amazon UK INTERNET: www.amazon.co.uk AVAILABILITY: Now ISBN: 0752820907 Tim Berners-Lee is one of those names that will go down in history alongside such names as Marconi, Frank Whittle and, Edison. It was Tim Berners-Lee who not only […]
As I was writing this article, Microsoft announced Windows 8.1 and Phone 8.1 at ‘Build 2014’ their developers conference, and along with this there has been a major update to Visual Studio 2013, this update ( http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/aspnet-and-web-tools-20132-preview-for-visual-studio-2013-release-notes ) is called ‘Update 2’ and is also available on the free Visual Studio Express version. The main improvements that […]