Archive for the 'Website Optimization' Category

AutoMapIt Sitemap Creation Service is Released

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

AutoMapIt is a unique service that automatically spiders your site and creates 4 sitemap formats before FTP’ing them to your server.

Sitemaps are good for you!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

With all of the hullabaloo over Googles latest update, one thing has become apparent to many webmasters… Don’t put all of your chickens in one egg. Or something like that..
People have spent a lot of time and effort strictly to please Google. Although they do account for roughly 80% of search traffic, the remaining 20% […]

Rewriting URLs using htaccess - the basics

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

There are a few standard tricks I like to perform using the htaccess file on Apache servers. Rewriting URLs is a bit trickier to do than most things with htaccess, but if you can find every ugly URL in your script and change it to a ‘dynamically clean’ format, then you have a good […]

Link Checking is always good - Xenu helps

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Link checking has always been the kind of thing that I know should happen and often strive to do regularly (hmm, been a while since I’ve checked my own links, now that I think of it). Having a website with broken links is like having the space shuttle with odd white clouds leaking from the […]

htaccess tools

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Comptrio is hot on producing a suite of htaccess tools. I will be releasing (after testing) an htaccess security script to help you secure your website using the htaccess file including some user-management. Web Scripting security is great for managing user accounts and keeping track of who is on which page to customize their experience, […]

Sitemap formats

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

There are many sitemap formats that all have ways to help your site get spidered by various means…Google, HTML, OPML, and Yahoo offer different ways for you to map out your site and get noticed.

Speed optimization for Flash movies (sort of)

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

An excellent means of increasing ‘perceived’ load times is to use source ordering. This method places the flash code at the bottom of the HTML document, then sets itin place on the page using CSS.

htaccess Rewrite and indirect linking

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

URL’s can be rewritten to mimic files or directories. While directory rewrites may seem

Optimize your website by ordering your source code

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Source ordering is the practice of placing the most relevant page code at the top of your HTML file and using CSS to lay it out according to where you visually want to see the code.