TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Are you trying to keep your website compliant with current web standards and free of validation errors? Validation helps ensure that your website will work properly on the widest range of web browsers. Often times, validation errors don’t do any harm to your site, however, it’s usually best to be as standard compliant as possible. Plus, all the big companies try to validate their page.... 

Do you own a website or blog? How fast does it load? Do you think that your site’s speed may be affecting the number of visitors you get? It just might. You may have been aware that Google has recently announced that a site’s performance will now be calculated into the Page Rank formula in a new Webmaster Tools blog post. Google Webmaster Tools features Site Performance information, which... 

Rollovers are a useful visual effect indicating that something is clickable. In the early days of HTML and web design, the only way to create rollover buttons was through Javascript, which relied on scripts being enabled along with adding a lot of extra code and slowing the entire page down. It’s now possible to use CSS to create the same effect, but more efficient and will work even if Javascript... 

Google offers Google Webmaster Tools for webmasters to submit their site to Google as well as get detailed indexing and keyword information. A similar service is also offered by Yahoo! and Bing. These services allow providing a sitemap(s). Why are Sitemaps Important? Sitemaps help tell search engines, such as Google, what pages exist in your site and is especially useful for those they might not find... 

What are meta keywords? Basically, they are a website meta tag that shows the keywords of a page. <meta name="keywords" content="farewell,meta,keywords" /> Meta keywords can often lead unsuspecting users to spam sites because there isn’t anything stopping webmasters from using fake keywords to draw users to their site. Slowly over time, search engines have been taking... 

Do you own a website or blog that you want many people to find? SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization,” helps your website be visible in search engines, for the purpose of bringing relevant traffic. If your site has poor SEO, search engines might not know what to categorize your site under and you may receive traffic from users that aren’t interested, which will in turn increase...