Go to google.com, click on “Google in English”. Only after doing this will your cookie be saved. Google Chrome will respect the homepage setting, and should use whatever base URL for Google you get when you visit google.com. After doing the above change, restart the browser and wait ten seconds. At that point, the {google:baseURL} [...]
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What follows are the basic few steps I start with when analysing a site:
1/ Checking backlinks (also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links – basically they’re pages that link to your website/page)
Use a Google Advanced Search: for example http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_lq=google.com&btnG=Search
The basic idea here is to see what websites link to your website. [...]
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Unusual situation the other day. I got asked to add an Intranet page with a guide to explain how end users can check the version (or versions) of Java they have installed. I thought to myself there has to be a better and more efficient way of doing this, and making it easier for the [...]
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When creating a website for any company or organisation its important to adhere to as many generally accepted web standards as possible. Due to the huge amount of content on the Internet, and the range of it too, the market in Internet filtering software continues to grow. There’s no legal obligation to categorise a websites [...]
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Update 01/02/2010: In hindsight I should have just used JQuery to check that the page had been loaded, e.g:
$(document).ready(function(){
/* code you want to execute */
}
A couple of months ago I encountered an issue with one of the sites I was developing, www.howdenparkcentre.co.uk. The basic page template for the main content area for most [...]
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