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admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:15:13 +0000

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Indexing Flash Webpages

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:01:18 +0000

It’s all over the net. Google has announced that it indexes Flash. With some limitations, but something is one thing: With some limitations, but something is something

* Google does not run according to types of Javascript, so if your flash is loaded by Javascript, it will not be indexed. Google does not run according to types of Javascript, so if your flash is loaded by Javascript, it will not be indexed. Have to be reported are those that do not run javascripts. Have to be reported are those that do not run javascripts.
* Items that loads a flash, are taken as parts of the flash. The items that load a flash, are taken as parts of the flash. That is, if a load or an external swf xml, Google will take them as different elements. That is, if a load or an external swf xml, Google will take them as different elements. As done with the frames, for example. As done with the frames, for example.
* There is a problem with languages bidirecionales (which is written from right to left) and by the time they are not indexable. There is a problem with bidirecionales languages (which is written from right to left) and by the time they are not indexable.

So what index? So what index?

* Textual elements. Textual elements. None of pictures, videos, and assume that neither text layout. None of pictures, videos, and assume that neither text layout.
* You can follow links inside of a flash. You can follow links inside of a flash. So I’m not clear is whether these links are just a text field with HTML links or buttons also applies to menus. So I’m not clear is whether these links are just a text field with HTML links or buttons also applies to menus.

There is an interview with Google Software Engineers which are explained in depth the issue. There is an interview with Google Software Engineers which explain in depth the issue.

Flash and search engine indexes, in a somewhat special, but something is something. Flash and search engine indexes, in a somewhat special, but something is something. I recognize the need for this tool index. I recognize the need for this tool index. There are numerous applications for which flash is a powerful tool and it was necessary that this index also started. There are numerous applications for which flash is a powerful tool and it was necessary that this index also started.

I suppose that will now be able to index and follow the links at the bottom of YouTube videos, read news widgets, comments on animated photo galleries, etc … But despite the efforts of positioning and accessibility at Adobe, I still think not support a complete website. I suppose that will now be able to index and follow the links at the bottom of YouTube videos, read news widgets, comments on animated photo galleries, etc … But despite the efforts of positioning and accessibility at Adobe, I still think not support a complete website.

Good or bad web design?

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:18:20 +0000

There are many factors when assessing whether a website is good or evil. Certainly the first impression on the Internet is crucial, but then when we started to navigate or find what I was looking for, often all you get is more frustration.

We can detect the quality of a website, answering these questions:

1. Does your GOAL? - Each site requires a clear framework to survive the tremendous competition that exists. A website should have a goal, teach, sell, distracted … and perform it once defined. The purpose of a website should be to achieve the greatest possible communication with your prospects.
If you enter a website to see a hotel, the first thing I see, besides the price, the rooms are, with good pictures, I want to see the services we have and the location, how much distance is the beach? …. This sure is going to capture my interest, and if they also have a good payment system with a user-friendly platform, the result will be very good. If on the contrary, I have a house with a slow loading site, with pictures of poor quality, with nobody to answer mail, but that if, full of advertising people (who get free reeds), etc. . What will you be there to flee quickly.

2. IS YOUR WEB SITE LIGHT? - One of the problems that we find is that there is established a good architecture for the design of the site and all contents are needed, however, are not well displayed, apelmazados too, too much noise or external distract the attention of the user (too much advertising, or too many outstanding strident buttons, …)
Any website should be clear enough to communicate with its user, either to convey information, to communicate two-way with him, to show a product … And most of the time (if not always), clarity is achieved with simplicity.

3. IS YOUR WEB Usable? - To make your website successful, any user, or at least the target that is addressed, must learn to use it without any doubt. The usability needs of a site, depending on the nature of it, for example, a travel website, you must have a very good search engine (or more), in which we can easily find the trip that we are looking for, with a result search ordered by preference, be it price or proximity to the beach. A blog should have a good documentation of his post, and then be able to find the clouds of tags, categories. The users are very impatient, and if it takes a while to find what you’re looking for, prefer to go elsewhere soon expected. Usability is time and loyalty.

4. IS ACCESS? - Accessibility is fundamental if we are to achieve our goals. Our website is to be able to see well in any browser, if you who are designing the website that tells you if you’re in the explorer is not in firefox, or sailing around the world explorer, or a thousand other things that occasions I have heard, run!, get yourself a real designer. The code also has to have either their labels, the blind for example, navigate to programs that read the tags of an image. If you do not put the alt tag, in addition to positioning convictions lose accessibility. We cannot force the user to use a particular browser, resolution or plugin for your web browsing.

5. Who is? - The user must be the beacon of the design and development of a website, however, often do not have it in mind until we see that we do not get the views we had estimated. It is often designed for one or according to guidelines of us who work in charge, thinking of himself and not the end user. We must study the user to upload content that interest you, if we focus on the interests of the owner, you will not achieve our goals.

6. WATERWAY IS YOUR SITE? - Navigation affects the usability and accessibility. A web can not have a guide to be used, it must be intuitive, we must always know where we stand as forward or back to what we see. A clear menu navigation, some well-defined links in design and in the text that identifies them. The design should not come at the expense of shipping.
When we develop a web site, we know which pages are most important to us and which are secondary. The user need not enter the home from our site, so you probably do not see these important pages, so it must be referring to them with links.
We must always be in the worst, which is intuitive for the designer, you may not be so for most users, that is also highly recommended, in addition to patterns, see our non-expert users with diagrams and check that they are able to navigate.

7. THE LOOK OF YOUR WEB - As I said at the beginning of this post, it is very important, an attractive web captures interest. And it is very important to see a design professional. This is a point that unfortunately is not taken into account, as it mistakenly thinking websites are responsible only in price and not on who makes you …
We have to watch the trends, innovation, the image that we in the web is the showcase of our business, we can not afford to show an old image or disordered. A website should be redesigned every two or three years. If the content is good, it is not expensive, it is an investment that produces benefits. The design must be aesthetically consistent with the message and purpose of the site.

Changes in Adobe After Effects

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:54:21 +0000

Adobe has released a minor update to its application for video post production and visual effects to version 9.0.1.

After Effects CS4 Mocha 9.0.1 includes improvements, thus allowing to read files properly QuickTime, and other improvements related workflows Dynamic Link. It also fixes a problem where the application could stop the rendering process when you turn off the display due to adjustments made in the Energy Saver or Screen Saver feature of the system.

It also fixes a problem where After Effects might give the impression of having been hung for several minutes “reading material markers XMP” with files that include a highly nested structure of metadata. Additionally, it has solved another problem where the problems might seem desynchronized with MediaCore play option is selected when “Write to XMP IDs on Import Files.

10 Good design practices

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:37:21 +0000

1. Bad programming search
in the design of a search engine, we must take into account the typographical errors you may commit the user, allowing plural, scripts, and other variants of search terms. Furthermore, the search result is usually based on the number of times the word appears, rather than the importance of the document that contains it.
You prefer to use the search engine to find content, and more, if the usability of the site is bad.
2. PDF documents
nothing worse than finding navigation in a PDF, since it breaks the entire flow. Besides slowing down, most of the time the document does not match the size of the browser user. Let therefore this type of file to where the user has to download a file and read it later.
3. Change the color of visited links
this point in my view is controversial. Jakob Nielsen argues quite rightly that not change the color of visited links is detrimental to the usability and navigability difficult for the user, as it is easy to err and return to pages already visited to be pressed by mistake to the same link.
I agree with that assessment, although no longer just for those occasions when it is a huge list of links, but for a missed connection or a couple of options on a page I do not think is necessary.
4. The walls of text
an endless block of text without proper interlined, and without points apart, causing a rejection of the user. The appearance is very dense it will be difficult to digest. We must use titles, subheadings, separate the ideas of paragraphs, making it generally appealing to the user. I would add more, it would be advisable inlcuso, we could read the document in disorder. This is achieved by separating the ideas and very descriptive titles and subtitles.
5. Font Size
is important that you feel comfortable while reading a text. A source is too small or too large hurts reading. Ideally, you can modify to suit the consumer, with css and relative values rather than absolute.
6. Page titles with low visibility
The page title is very important, because the search result of any search engine will be the title that appears in the list, and it is very important that is sufficiently descriptive and attractive to the user’s choice against others.
The titles are also used as input in the browser favorites, so it is very important that are descriptive of the contents of the page that you represent.
For the home is recommended to start with the company name followed by the description, do not use items at the beginning or phrases such as “welcome to ….”.
It also serves as the title of the page to name the browser window we have open, so a user with multiple windows open, welcomes us to identify with a glance, it is also important to get maximum information on the first words.
7. Selective attention
anything that looks like an ad is rejected in the way of finding information that a user performs. I disagree that you can not design something that looks like an ad, what is needed is that the design is sufficiently integrated into the style sheet in our website, so the user will recognize as the information itself web product and not as external.
I had to devise creative Muchoviaje.com many other portals such as Terra, msn, wanadoo …. and I can assure you that the best results was provided by the creativities that matched the style of web hosting, but with a difference.
8. Consistency
this is one of the most frequent errors today. When the navigation is consistent and “flat”, ie smooth, any design that departs from that line, draw the attention of a powerful user. A consistent and smooth navigation that leads the user to feel comfortable and confident, always knows how to tackle a new page because it comes from another of the same architecture. Insecurity in navigation caused by the departure of the user of the website, and of course ends with loyalty.
9. Pop
a pop-up makes the user is left without one of their main means of navigation, the back button. Step is a hyperlink from one page to another, and that is what we expect when we click. The user has the rejection of pop-ups, so it is advisable to indicate that this link will open in a new window, to avoid surprises.
10. Do not give the user what is currently seeking
another common mistake is to try to fool the user. We must assume that if a product is not of interest to a user does not have to sell at any price. In many instances the cost is hidden, or they give you one since then has nothing to do with the final release, not to mention when we entered we found a page on a search result and when we got all we are related our interests are the same keywords entered into the browser and other content entirely different.

H1 tags and Optimization

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:44:06 +0000

In this post we will see one of the most common SEO mistakes committed by millions of websites and then we will try to explain why a page in front of another in a search result.

If you enter “welcome” in google, you will see more than 60,000,000 results, really incredible, “the reason is that all these pages are welcome

with a …. .
Here we see the importance of knowing what are the labels.

Label not only serves to make the text larger, so this is the css, which indicates the label is the first level within a hierarchy, from the headlines. Google knows that if a text is that text in an h1 is the most representative of that page, the largest holder, and then so will the h2, h3, … if any.

The h1 tag is quite ugly in itself, perhaps too large, we usually do is put some style through the css. Change color, font type designated, and we modify the text size, but so soon?. Some people commented that it is better to let their real size, which can affect positioning andalusia. I do not entirely agree with this assertion, if we see Google as a web page, we will see that what is read the label and not the H1 associated css to that label. I’ve been looking online to find any studies on it, but I have not found anything serious.

I particularly use one H1 per page, the less I try to use h2 better and if possible related h1.

As to get into the text that h1 must be borne in mind what we want to position.

Let’s consider the example of “Windows Vista” (this example I told a client that wanted to buy Windows Vista because I wanted to take legal and consulting company in google I took the surprise). We are talking about the all-powerful Microsoft, we see how important it is to know what we want to position and how to take into account all the possible search options.
If you typed in google “Windows Vista”, we get as it seems logical, positioned at the top page of microsoft. But what happens when the user types in “buy Windows Vista? Some keywords that are completely logical to do what he wants.

The result is the following, the two occupy the top two websites completely on the mark, with headlines such as! 10 reasons not to buy windows vista “… or” I’m not stupid. ” The fact is that someone who wants to buy Windows Vista and do a search in google, the first thing you will read are comments totally contrary and that will make you think if you’re doing the right thing.

Now let’s analyze why a website is better positioned than the other in this result (Buy Windows Vista):

FIRST POSITION: blog kriptopolis.org

1. url: http://www.kriptopolis.org/comprar-vista-yo-no-soy-tonto
2. title: Buy Windows Vista? I’m not stupid! | Kriptopolis
3. h1: Buy Windows Vista? I’m not stupid!
4. paragraph: enter the keywords “windows vista” followed without bold or link
5. This is a blog and all comments have a title in a h3 url that includes the keywords, such as: Windows Vista
6. PageRank = 0
7. Joined: October 2006
8. External links pointing to it: 0

SECOND POSITION: blog desguate.com

1. url: http://desdeguate.com/blog/2007/02/21/10-razones-para-no-comprar-windows-vista/
2. title:>> 10 Reasons not to buy Windows Vista>> DesdeGuate.com
3. h1: no reference to these keywords
4. h2: 10 Reasons not to buy Windows Vista
5. paragraph: 10 reasons not to switch to Windows Vista
6. PageRank = 2
7. Joined: February 2007
8. External links pointing to it: 3

Let’s analyze why the first blog is best positioned:

1. url - The keywords are not complete, lack of them.
2. title - now the same as the second.
3. h1 - has placed the 3 keywords.
4. h2 - Not listed.
5. paragraph - the second worst
6. PageRank - the second worst
7. Oldest
8. External links - the second worst

In conclusion, the first blog will be better positioned than the second, for his h1 a page and for being older. All this is supported, of course, that the other labels have also done a good job. We must also comment that this blog has all the headlines with his comments h3 a url that contains the keywords.

Design practices for the web

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:53:13 +0000

Designing a website is very important because it is the letter of your business that will fall into the hands of thousands of potential customers. They will judge your business and decide whether or not it is interesting just for the design of your website, whether or not your products are interesting. Knowing this, how can companies continue to spend money without your site?

When you enter a website that is the value that a user does:

FIRST IMPRESSION: This time I have to say that if the first impression matters, and much!. The opinion is formed in seconds, making a positive impression is crucial because users are very quick to get out of a site that has not immediately impressed.
Besides the design, good well-chosen photographs can help to attract attention.

Charging time: The connections have improved a lot lately, but that did not remove sites that are still too heavy or overworked connections. If a site takes to load the user is, as simple as that. It is advisable that a site does not exceed 100kb, we know that is often difficult, but it is better to know the information distributed on several pages that have a light heavy with all the information. Moreover it will always be a more usable web extructurada well.

EASE OF READING OF CONTENTS: Sources sufficiently readable size, good contrast between background and font color, a division of text into paragraphs by ideas, etc … We have to make pleasant reading, highlighting the important ideas in headlines and subheads, using either the bold and not make paragraphs too long. It is very important to select the words of a headline or a caption, and a caption.
The architecture of the page itself is very important, the number of columns, the distribution of information, knowledge about what to emphasize how important secondary ….

NAVIGATION: Once you have successfully captured the attention of the user, we have to make it easy to browse our website, with a menu visible and intuitive, making it always know where you are, very careful with the pages which are not dead you leave. An added tip is to put internal links within the text of the page.
Never know where a user is going to come, so we have to think that any of the web page can be home at that time, so we can not afford to break browsing on any page, it can be the gateway many users.
A good navigation will help to increase the number of pages to view our website.

TITLE HELP: There are several elements that may be helpful to the user, for example, put a descriptive title of the page when the user makes the target page to favorites, within two months when you can immediately see the inside of their favorites. Also, when browsing in various browsers, the page title is what you see in the window minimized, it is also important to put the important words at the top of the title.