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August 17, 2011HTML5: A Cowpath on a Cliff
Speakers:
Karl Dubost, Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
Karl has a very thick accent, and honestly I’m horrible with accents so we’ll see how well I do with this session. I’ll do my best folks!
The main language of the web is HTML and up until recently it’s been mainly HTML4. HTML4 was/is DOM, CSS and JavaScript. We then moved to XHTML 1.0. It was supposed to be a pure language, the ‘promise land’…but it fell slightly short. Yet, something interesting that came out of XHTML is that people started to care about the semantics of the language. They realized that by using some of the elements they got benefits in the browsers and search engines.
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August 7, 2009
SEO Advice in Your CMS!
What if SEO was never an afterthought? What if search engine optimization best practices could be easily considered as site content is created through a CMS? Now they can be, through an exciting new partnership between SEO-friendly CMS Pixelsilk and Bruce Clay, Inc.’s SEOToolSet diagnostic tools. [Warning: Shameless excitement below.] “The real problem that SEO [...]
February 24, 2009
Hold on to Your Hard Hats: Blog Renovation Zone
Pat & Me at SES SJ Search Bash. Photo by the lovely Kate Morris. Patrick Sexton is a wildly passionate, remarkably generous and insanely crafty SEO. This morning he gave me some sound advice on how to make the BC blog better. I’m still blushing over the obvious effort and care he took to do [...]
August 21, 2008
How to Speak Geek: Working Collaboratively with Your IT Department to Get Stuff Done
Ah, the internal battle of IT and marketing. How do you get the IT folks to actually implement your brilliant vision? I have no idea but our panelists Matt Bailey (SiteLogic), Greg Boser (3 Dog Media), Sage Lewis (SageRock) and Chris “Silver” Smith (Netconcepts) think they do. Greg and Sage are last minute additions and [...]
August 8, 2008
The Evolution of Twitter Profiles
Editor’s Note: Before she wrote this entry, Rhea asked if it was okay to use images. I said we love them. Clearly one should watch what they say around Rhea. This is our last guest blog, folks! Enjoy! –Susan I hate the Bruce Clay blog. Seriously, it’s boring (not the writing, I love Susan and [...]
August 6, 2008
CMS is Not a Four Letter Word
Editor’s Note: Our second blogger today is Megan Slick. Megan and Smart Solutions would like to get your thoughts on CMS. The Content Management System (CMS) was born out of needs. These needs included: Non-technical website owners having the ability to update their sites in a friendly WYSIWYG Scalability for medium sites to grow into [...]
August 4, 2008
An Insider’s Look at the REAL Search Engine Marketing Play Book
Editor’s Note: With Lisa away, we’re kicking off a week of guest stars. Up first is thoughts from everyone’s favorite usability guru, Kim Krause Berg of Cre8pc.com/UsabilityEffect.com. –Susan Since my High School never won a football game, it wasn’t until I went with a boyfriend to a big game between Lehigh and Lafayette Universities that [...]
July 9, 2008
Bruce’s Guide to Appropriate Use of Flash
There has been a lot of controversy over our post about Flash not being the SEO solution that a great many people hoped. Our statements, along with many other intelligent voices, claim that Flash is not off the hook yet as a search engine-unfriendly technology. What I find amazing is that so many designers just [...]
July 1, 2008
Don’t Build Your Web Site In Flash
I’d like you to do me a favor. Please disregard everything you may have read this morning on Search Engine Land, Matt Cutts’ blog and even on the Official Google Blog. Flash is still evil; please don’t use it to design your entire Web site. No, really. Don’t. I think it’s great that Adobe is [...]
June 4, 2008
Diagnosing Web Site Architecture Issues
Back from lunch. Carrot cake is delicious and Vanessa Fox is now moderating the Developer’s track with speakers David Golightly (Zillow), Jonathan Hochman (Hochman Consultants) and Chris Silver Smith (Netconcepts). Vanessa says we’re going to talk through the kinds of things they look for when they’re going through sites and trying to locate issues. There [...]
