One of the things that webmasters need to ensure is that third parties are not modifying code on one of their websites. Attacks that make this possible include code injection or brute force attacks to retrieve the ftp or database password of a website. The free software Websites Cop can monitor contents hosted on one [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I’m usually not reviewing commercial services for obvious reasons, but I’d like to make an exception today. I was looking for an A-B testing service that would allow me to test web page variations to find out which variation worked best for a site that I own. I first thought about using Google’s Web Optimizer [...]

Categories: Web Development

One of the things that you need to make sure as a webmaster is support for various screen resolutions. The rise of mobile browsing, especially on smartphones but also on low resolution devices like tablet and netbook PCs, has made this step even more important. A website that is not offering optimized contents for popular [...]

Categories: Online Services, Web Development

Investing money requires research, lots of research. That’s true for the stock market, website investments and other forms of investments. Once you have done your research, you can make an educated guess about the investment. What are the risks? What’s the worst case scenario? Which return can I expect when I calculate conservatively? Lets say [...]

Categories: Web Development

I’ve written a lot about tablets over the last few months and indeed I now own a Windows 7 tablet myself, the ExoPC Slate.  It didn’t take much use of this device to become disillusioned with the modern web as it stands today and I can’t help but wonder if the future of the web [...]

Categories: The Web, Web Development

Every Internet user knows Facebook right? Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft and Twitter are also fairly common. But have you ever heard of Jinni, Joongel or Jangle ? No? Then read on to find out what they, and 23 more sites have to offer. It is surprising that you cannot find a single site on the Internet [...]

Categories: The Web

Google is making a lot of changes lately which can partially be attributed to the rising criticism that search quality has taken the dive in recent years. The aim of the latest change that has been rolled out yesterday in the US is to move “more” quality sites to the top of the search results, [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

So called sitemaps are files that contain information about a website’s structure. It is usually not the only information but that should be enough as an explanation for now. Many content management systems, blog platforms and other dynamically generated website scripts come with options to automatically generate, and often submit sitemaps to the big search [...]

Categories: Software, Web Development, Windows

A part of a webmaster’s routine is the validation of markup languages on managed websites, to make sure that the websites are displayed correctly and uniformly in web browsers. An online tool that many webmasters use is W3C Validator, which can verify the markup of a single web page, and display errors that it encounters. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows