Sam Ruby, secretary for the IETF working group that's creating the Atom protocol specification, has scheduled all open proposals for the format for discussion or for closure. With fifteen proposals scheduled for discussion and three for closure, it's a much bigger batch than usual. Is it too much all at once, or are we really...
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When was the last time you made a design adjustment to every page of your website? When was the last time you wanted to make a design adjustment to every page of your site? If the two dates aren't the same, I'm guessing that you're not making optimum use of website templates. Today, I'll discuss...
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When starting out with CSS, you may be tempted to assign a class or two to every item on your page. Today's tip will help you to accomplish the same amount of styling without overly littering your HTML with classes. The trick is to use descendant selectors.

Let's say, for example, most of your page...
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You've learned HTML. You've built your website. It looks just fine. Why should you bother to learn CSS? Why should you overhaul your existing site to use CSS? More to the point, why should you spend time that you could be using doing other important things learning and implementing CSS? Is it really worth it?...
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The Atom Syntax mailing list seems ripe for another skirmish in the Holy War of technology that's being fought in the name of RDF. Disciples of the Way of the Religious Resource Description Framework are raising their voices and denouncing heathen claims to extensibility without RDF. Unbelievers are sounding their retorts that XML is plenty...
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I've just posted a keyword density analyzer on my site. Use it to check whether your webpages repeat the keywords you want to optimize for the proper number of times. Don't repeat them often enough, and the search engines won't know what your page it about. Repeat them too often, and search engines will discount...
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I've just posted a new SEO article on how to increase your PageRank by creating more web pages. It covers a few dos and don'ts to help you maximize the benefit you get from adding new webpages to your site.

"There's a big difference between 'mostly almost ready' and 'all almost ready'." -- Paraphrased from the Princess Bride

After a bit more thought and discussion, I've found there are a few more things I'd like to see in Atom before we call it 1.0. Nothing major, but a few loose ends that we can hopefully...
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Is Atom 1.0 almost ready for prime time? Tim Bray seems to think so. Today, he posted a proposal to the Atom wiki suggesting that we incorporate one more proposal (for a category element), clean up the draft, and submit it. I must admit, I was surprised to see someone make the suggestion, and even...
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In response to my article on using RSS for SEO, the question has arisen of whether outbound links from a web page really reduce its PageRank. The answer? Yes and no.

Without going into too much detail, Google doesn't take PageRank away from one page and give it to another, so the answer is no....
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