Tag Archives: Flash

How to Make Your Site Load Faster

You might not think it is necessary to have your website load fast. You might think that as long as you have pertinent content available to your targeted user and it’s SEO optimized, your site will pop up on the first few ranking pages of search engines.

This is not true anymore. Google has enhanced its web crawling spiders to not only harvest information about a particular website’s content, but also about loading speed of the pages on that site. This means that even if you have the most relevant product or information matching a user’s query, if your site doesn’t load fast enough, it might not be ranked highly on the search results pages (SERPs)  by Google. Site speed might stop you from getting the visibility you deserve or need to grow your business and remain profitable.

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HTML5 Development

HTML5 development is an ongoing effort of a consortium of many software developers and other interested industry groups to update and revise Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which is the core language at the heart of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on HTML5 in 2004 which is being edited by Ian Hickson of Google, Inc and David Hyatt of Apple. The HTML5 specification standard is in various draft states at at W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) which began working with the WHATWG draft of HTML5 in 2007.

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Interactive Web Design and SEO

Interactive Web Design and SEO must be compatible to work together; otherwise they are mutually exclusive.  The best known incompatibility is the use of Flash programming to design a website.  Unknowing website owners hire website designers who are not aware or are not concerned with the ultimate objective of almost any commercial website … to make money for the owner.  So the best looking website won’t have any business success online if the website is unreadable by the search engines; this renders the website and the online business invisible or as I like to say in “online nuclear winter.”  The basic fact is that Flash cannot be read by any of the major search engines.  So if your descriptive text, navigation, headers and footers are created within a Flash website, Google will never read it.

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SEO Friendly Website Design

SEO Friendly Website DesignYou may not realize it, but some of the advanced design techniques that you use for your website, such as Flash, or heavy use of frames may actually be hurting your SEO rankings. When designing a website, it is important to make informed decisions about each design element in order to optimize the site for search engine rankings. By learning which tools can negatively impact your rankings, as well as which are designed to improve them, your website will have a better chance at ranking high with the major search engines.

First, there are some design elements that should be avoided:

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What happened to Microsoft Silverlight?

About a year ago there was talk about a Flash/Ajax eliminator. Microsoft was unveiling a new competing plug-in that would blow Flash, Ajax, JavaScript, and CSS apparently all out of the water. It was based on the .Net technology, and at the same time was cross browser AND cross operating system compatible.
 
1 year later, I don't see a lot of talk about it in the tech world, in fact I remember disregarding it completely when it was announce, and I believe most Flash and JavaScript Developers did. Interesting enough, People at the Y Combinator, which invest in web 2.0 and other emerging companies, don’t even take in consideration if Microsoft is already in the field when funding a company. They consider seeing if Google is in the field they are trying to get into, and ways t avoid them now. Google has all the power of a multi-billion dollar company, but a lot of the nimbleness and energy of a startup.

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