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WHICH IMAGE FORMAT IS BETTER FOR OPTIMIZED WEBSITE?

2008-10-04T18:06:00.000-07:00

Unless you're bent on evoking that retro-fly ARCHIE or GOPHER feel, you're probably going to be using some images on your pages. Just follow a few simple guidelines as you generate your images, and your pages will download in record time.

To begin with, decide whether a given image ought to be a GIF, JPEG, or PNG. This may seem elementary, but it's a mistake that's still slowing down a good percentage of web pages out there.

GIF is the oldest and most compatible file format for pictures on the web perfectly suited for smaller graphics that need to look crisp and clean, but don't need more than 256 colors. GIFs can also be saved with one "transparent color," allowing them to have irregularly shaped borders. Simple company logos, icons, and navigation buttons are good examples of graphics that should be saved in GIF format.

Now, PNG is a lot like GIF - in fact, it was developed to be a patent-free alternative to GIF, created with the same sort of uses in mind. PNG builds on GIF's basic features, with improvements like more colors, fancy multilevel transparency (ideal for delicate drop-shadow effects), even gamma-correction, which ensures that colors look the same on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. Best of all, not only are PNGs just as good as GIFs in almost every way, but PNGs use better file compression so they're smaller files which load more quickly.

In short, PNG is an excellent substitute for GIF, built to handle the same types of graphics (logos, icons, irregularly-shaped items, et cetera) better and faster. There's just one BIG drawback:a tiny, tiny percentage of browsers won't display PNGs at all! And, because of this, hardly anybody uses PNGs yet.

So should you risk stepping up to PNG just to make your pages faster? Well, probably, "Yeah!"

Shajed Zaman

+8801553466670

Basic Search Engine Optimization Techniques

2008-09-03T02:31:00.001-07:00

Contents of the website

Many SEO experts suggest that web page contents are the most important factors in SEO. It is important to use keywords heavily on web page, since this will help the search engine determine the topic of page. (1)

Following steps can be taken to improve page contents:

Use your key phrases several times, and place them as close to the top of the page as possible.
Place your key phrases between Header Tags (H1, H2 or H3) in the first two paragraphs of your page.
Place your key phrases in bold type phase at least once
Repeat your key phrases often to increase your key phrase density. Repeating your key phrases between 5 to 10 times for every 100 words in your page is considered effective.

Since you have to repeat your key phrases often, you must be especially careful not to make your text sound awkward. Your visitors should be able to read your page fluently and effortlessly. Remember that ultimately it is your readers who will decide if your page is worth the time they spend on it. A pleasant experience will make them more likely to come back.

Web page Title

Every website does have some particular keywords. Including these keywords are very important in TITLE tag of the website. In search engine most of the people try to search some thing typing key parses in the search box.

Following steps can be taken to improve TITLE tags:

Descriptive title for your page: Your web page title is very important because it is what the search engines display as link text as the result of a search. The title must include your main key phrases, while at the same time it must describe your business very well and should entice readers to click on it.
Unless your business is big and well known (like Microsoft or Coca Cola) don't start your page title with the name of your company. Start your title with the words search engine users will most likely use (your key phrases)
Put your main key phrase at the beginning of your page title (key phrase prominence) and keep your key phrase together (keyword proximity).
Put your second key phrase somewhere else in the title.

Make the title short (8 words or less).

Web page Description tag

The Description Meta Tag is important, since some search engines use them to elaborate on the results link.

Following steps can be taken for description writing:

Include key phrases (main and secondary) in Description Meta Tag
Make description 'descriptive', concise and professional.
Make it short (25 words or less).
Description sound just like a collection of keywords.
Keep key phrases together.

Web page Design consideration

A web page design has to be specified and accessible for every browser and especially for search engines. Navigation of a website is more vital as well as design. Mainly any good search engine robots are tuned for text. So if we have identical and related text used specifically search engine crawl them well.

Some of the design techniques we should consider:

You must make your page easy to navigate by the search engines. Search engines heavily favor text over graphics and HTML over other editing formats.
Use text heavily, especially in your navigation bar. Avoid placing text in graphic format since the search engines won't be able to read it.
Avoid frames. Search engines have trouble following them, and they may index only the framed content page and not the navigation frame.
Avoid Flash and JavaScript: search engines don't follow either one. If you use flash, make an HTML version of your site available to your readers and the search engines. If you use a JavaScript navigation menu, include an alternate text menu at the bottom of the page, so it can be followed by the search engines.
Create a Site Map that includes all the pages in your site, and place a Site Map link close to the top of the homepage. When the search engine follows the site map link, it will find and index all the pages in your site!
If you use a left navigation bar, the search engine will read it before the body of your page. Make sure you include your most important keywords there, too.

Make sure that all your internal pages link to your homepage.

Link Exchange

A link
exchange (also known as a banner
exchange) is a confederation of websites that operates similarly to a web ring. Webmasters register their web sites with a central organization, that runs the exchange, and in turn receive from the exchange HTML code which they insert into their web pages. In contrast to a web ring, where the HTML code simply comprises simple circular ring navigation hyperlinks, in a link exchange the HTML code causes the display of banner advertisements, for the sites of other members of the exchange, on the member web sites, and webmasters have to create such banner advertisements for their own web sites.

The banners are downloaded from the exchange. A monitor on the exchange determines, from referral information supplied by web browsers, how many times a member web site has displayed the banner advertisements of other members, and credits that member with a number of displays of its banner on some other member's web site. Link exchanges usually operate on a 2:1 ratio, such that for every two times a member shows a second member's banner advertisement, that second member displays the first member's banner advertisement. This page impression: credits ratio is the exchange rate.

iWebService ITADMIN with web 2.0 interface

2008-08-11T15:30:00.001-07:00

Today I have uploaded my iwebservice projects code of ITADMIN module. The site is based on Ajax and web 2.0 like UI.

You can download the source code from project web service

I will update latest version soon… till then TC

Evan

+8801553466670

bdways@gmail.com

How to assign data source of drop down menu with dataset?

2008-08-11T09:12:00.001-07:00

Things we should know:

How to create one dataset
Some basic properties of Drop Down menu

Lets start

1. first create your dataset and place your drop down menu control on the page.
2. now lets go to the coding part...... in my example

/// i have created one object of table adapter named dep

AgroEGovTableAdapters.DepartmentTableAdapter dep = new AgroEGovTableAdapters.DepartmentTableAdapter();

///this is the page loading class where we should place the data source for the drop down

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){
if (!IsPostBack)
{
//// assign data source of drop down to dep. GetDepData() where getDepData() gets all the fields of department table

DropDownList1.DataSource = dep.GetDepData();

////// assign deta text value of drop down control to DepartmentName colum of datset table adapter

DropDownList1.DataTextField = "DepartmentName";

///// assign deta text value of drop down control to DepartmentID colum of datset table adapter

DropDownList1.DataValueField = "DepartmentID";

//// finaly you have to bing the data in drop down menu control
DropDownList1.DataBind();

}
}

That's it …… like this you can bind your drop down control values with your dataset adapter

Evan

+8801553466670

ITVISION

What is iWebService

2008-07-28T16:42:00.000-07:00

For my graduation thesis and project design i had chosen the topic named "Agro E Governance". I am currently working on it but somehow it is not related to government related things at all. we can rather call it a web service what can be used any where we want.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/iwebservice