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How to use the W3C Geolocation API

Introduction Imagine visiting a city for the first time. You're hungry, but don't know where the nearest restaurants are and which of them are any good. Wouldn't it be nice if some app could detect your location and provide you with a list of restaurants closest to you, along with reviews and ratings for each one? And this is not the only consideration — could it detect your location accurately, keeping in mind your privacy as well? This is where the W3C Geolocation API comes in, suppo...

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results. And this is where small time-savers become handy. Be it a handy checklist, batch inst...

jQuery iPhone UI – A Library That Mimics iPhone Interface

Few days ago, the jQuery team announced that they are working on jQuery Mobile which will probably become quickly popular on creating mobile web apps. for the fans of the library. On the other hand, there are already ready-to-use solutions like the pretty-complete jQuery iPhone UI (check the "Mobile Development" category for others). It is a jQuery library which emulates the iPhone interface that is handy for creating iPhone web applications. The library includes widgets like menu, ...

提高Google Adsense广告相关度的技巧

Google AdSense广告通常会针对用户网页的内容自动显示广告，但AdSense可能并不清楚你网页上的哪些部门的内容更重要，如果用户通过手动添加一些 HTML代码的方式，突出或忽略网页中的某些部分，这在一定程度上可以引导AdSense抓取工具重点分析网页的某些部分或忽略某些部分，以提高广告的相 关度。 比如，用户想要强调网页上某部分，那么可以在这部门的前后增加下面两段HTML代码。 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> 将需要强调的部分放在这两段代码中间即可。 如果用户想要忽略掉从某处开始的信息，可以在那个位置前增加下面的HTML代码。 <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> 经过这些处理后，AdSense广告的相关度就会得到一定的提高。 不过，如果用户页面的内容不足，那么有可能会因为没有广告内容而显示公益广告。

Google’s SEO Starter Guide is now available to download

Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. Available in 40 languages! http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html

Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery

Last November, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo united to support sitemaps, a standardized method of submitting web pages through feeds to the search engines. Today, the three are now joined by Ask.com in supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will automatically locate your sitemaps file if the location is listed in a robots.txt file. Announcements are up from Google and Ask now Yahoo and Microsoft. Information on how to c...