Websites

Alexa Website Traffic Tracking Service- Is it completely Reliable?

Posted in IT, Tools, Websites on February 14th, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

AlexaAlexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and it is a popular option to estimate rankings of website traffic. The service is mainly used for the US websites. There is a lack of other sources that offers similar credibility, which makes Alexa’s data acts as a good reference for the search engine optimization companies and the webmasters.

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Comparing Silverlight, HTML5 and Flash

Posted in Programming languages, Software, Websites on January 20th, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Contemporary websites are a whole lot different than they used to be a few years back. Modern websites predominantly deal with heaps of media content. Besides, with the advent of compulsory integrated features such as built in ads, flash and rich multimedia content means designing a website can be a fairly tricky job even for a seasoned web developer. What makes the job even more demanding is aspect of space constraints. Developing a webpage extravagantly can have disastrous effects especially from a financial point of view. Content needs to be delivered in a precise and compact manner as on average a web surfer just spends a few seconds over a single website.

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Selection of TOP 5 Python Books in 2010

Posted in Programming languages, Tutorials, Websites on January 14th, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Python LogoPython is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python aims to combine “remarkable power with very clear syntax”, and its standard library is large and comprehensive. Its use of indentation for block delimiters is unique among popular programming languages. (wikipedia.org)

Here is a selection of TOP 5 Python Books in 2010:

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Book Review: The Essential Guide To HTML5

Posted in Programming languages, Tutorials, Websites on December 30th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

HTML5Game development for the web now gets a new meaning on Jeanine Meyer latest creation “The Essential Guide to HTML5”. The book deals with plethora of fresh possibilities for apps and game enlargement on the web. Besides, the book shows you games that can be interacted and created completely within HTML. Therefore users don’t need to download those extra plug-ins and even developers for that matter don’t need to learn fresh languages and codes.

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Facebook or Google: A fight of numbers

Posted in IT, Websites on September 16th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Facebook or GoogleA recent research survey showed that Facebook might well win over Google, not when it comes to the number of users, but when it comes to the total time users spend on the website. comScore concluded that at least for US users, Facebook grabbed the top position for the month of August.

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Build your own web gallery

Posted in Websites on August 8th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Web GalleryIf you are an artist you probably know how hard it is to get recognition.

Fortunately for you, though, the Internet is a very powerful tool that will help you promote your services and show off your works!

 But how can that be done?

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Bing vs. Google

Posted in Websites on August 7th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Bing vs GoogleEven before Bing was formally launched on June 3rd 2009, so much had already been written about it. It was supposedly Microsoft Corporation’s answer to Google, therefore some referred to Bing as “Google Killer”. The hype over Bing made some people, especially those who have been using Google as their top search engine of choice, wonder if it could really dethrone Google.

Almost everybody knows what Google is. Launched in September 27th 1998, Google is considered to be the most dominant search engine with a market share of 65.6% in the United States alone.

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Youtube-It’s reach and how it works?

Posted in Websites on July 28th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

youtubeIn early 2007, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley, who were then working at PayPal, began to work on an idea that would help people share videos, as a result of the struggle they themselves faced while sharing videos with each other.
They called it Youtube, a site which was to become incredibly popular for uploading and viewing videos.

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