MattMaan » Uncategorized http://mattmaan.com on culture, computers, internet, wordpress, art, music, politics Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:45:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc WordPress MU at Wordcamp NY http://mattmaan.com/wordpress-mu-at-wordcamp-ny/ http://mattmaan.com/wordpress-mu-at-wordcamp-ny/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:54:10 +0000 mattmaan http://mattmaan.com/?p=211 Cool slide shows of WPMu in action:

http://wpmututorials.com/elsewhere/our-slides-from-wordcamp-new-york

Can’t wait for the video.

]]> http://mattmaan.com/wordpress-mu-at-wordcamp-ny/feed/ 0 Ten things to consider when building a web page for SEO heaven http://mattmaan.com/ten-things-to-consider-when-building-a-web-page-for-seo-heaven/ http://mattmaan.com/ten-things-to-consider-when-building-a-web-page-for-seo-heaven/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:45:36 +0000 mattmaan http://mattmaan.com/?p=192 1. Choose the correct DOC TYPE. Pages will not validate with an incorrect DOC TYPE and your page may even cause browsers to flip out for no obvious reason.
2. Create a unique META description and title tag for each page that will reflect the real content of that page. Slow down and read the copy. Duplicate description tags may indicate to a search bot that the page may contain duplicate content.
3. Fill in the alt tag that accompanies any image. Again, validate,… the page will not validate without alt tags filled. It will also add much needed bot-readable keyword text to the raw code.
4. Give the filename for the page a unique name. Reflect the nature of the page’s content in the url.
5. More content! The more text on a page, the happier a search bot is and will spend more time there reading.
6. Avoid Flash, but if you must, keep it to a minimum and make sure it is not the most dominate part of your page. Yeah, the bots say the can read flash documents now, but there isn’t any evidence of that claim or of their accuracy if they actually do.
7. Try your best not to use tables. Seperate the design from the content as much as possible. This isn’t as important to search bots as many designers would lead you to believe, but let’s get with the times.
8. Add keywords to the keyword META tag. Just for old-time’s sake. It can’t hurt.
9. Turn off all of the CSS on the page and examine it. That is the way a search bot sees it. Does it make sense? Is it readable?
10. Finally, be relevant. Update often. Consider using WordPress. The era of instant search is coming,… or maybe it’s already here.

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Basecamp by 37Signals.com makes project management easier.

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]]> http://mattmaan.com/77-ways-to-learn-faster-deeper-and-better/feed/ 0 The ultimate Man List – 100 things every man should know http://mattmaan.com/the-ultimate-man-list-100-things-every-man-should-know/ http://mattmaan.com/the-ultimate-man-list-100-things-every-man-should-know/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:28 +0000 mattmaan http://mattmaan.com/?p=82 My grandfather was a collector of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines in the 1950′s and 1960′s so I had a lot of fun checking out the list. How many of these skills do you know?

ultimate man list

]]> http://mattmaan.com/the-ultimate-man-list-100-things-every-man-should-know/feed/ 0 We have to stop designing websites with Firefox?! http://mattmaan.com/we-have-to-stop-designing-websites-with-firefox/ http://mattmaan.com/we-have-to-stop-designing-websites-with-firefox/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:08:28 +0000 mattmaan http://mattmaan.com/?p=64 I’ve had enough. I’m a Mac Apple dude to the hilt, but we can’t make a living just designing with FF. I have (shamlessly) tried to extend my old-school table designs in order to speed the completion of designs for clients for too long,… so now with the long awaited death DEATH! of ie6 I cannot continue on that path.Firefox (wallpaper)

Trouble is… ie7 is a trainwreck worthy of its own unbreakable headstone.IE7_final_587x203_F.jpg

Seriously, what are the microsoft programmers thinking? Haven’t they’ve had the official specs for css2 for a while now? Why is a simple list menu such a freaking time sucker in this era to get right in ie7?

Don’t get me wrong, I think I will be the first person on the face of the earth to (damn I’m gonna regret this one) admit to the free world that I really really like windows vista.

Grand Canyon #2

OK let it fly.

The reason I say that is it is true, and I’m not rattled. JUST TRY IT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

I worked as a mac consultant for a good while and I love them yes, but it is just a machine. Macs are just as vulnerable to failure and destructive behavior as any machine. Working as a mac repairman taught me that!

My beef in this post is all about ie7. I’ll love vista as long as it works for me on my little $423.00 laptop, but untill ie7, or ie8 9 or 10 actually includes the long published css2 or css1 specs in their code, I have a serious problem with MS and their approach to programming for the web. Get it together already!

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http://www.google.com/chrome

Extra-long article on the abc news site to boot!

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