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Links and News for this Week

Published on November 13, 2008 at 2:46 pm by heri in: Web Development, Web Hosting, iWeb

Here are quick updates for iWeb and the iWeb blog:

• Apache and cPanel are now mirrored at mirror.iweb.com
• You can now subscribe to system updates by RSS or email (see the form on the status page)
• The readers polls for the blog have been closed. Thanks for the feedback! See results
• We’ve seen unique visitors traffic for the iWeb blog double for the past month. Thanks everyone!

Here also news about web development and web hosting that the blog’s readers should find interesting:

• Lessons Learned While Building an iPhone site, by the flickr development team. They advise coding a new javascript and css file, think about mobile usage, optimize. See also earlier article published on the iWeb blog about developing for Android
• McColo, a web hosting firm, was taken down in California yesterday morning, and traffic for email spam has reportedly decreased by 75%. If you have any questions, iWeb is a no-spam tolerance network.
• Google released yesterday a Search Engine Optimization starter guide [PDF]. It covers topics such as web page titles, URL structure, site navigation, content text and more. If you are launching a website, do get this document.
• How To Understand Your Audience: Data Collection & Analysis. This Dosh Dosh article shows how you can use tools like Google Analytics, Have a Mint or poll toolls like polldaddy or fluidSurveys to better understand your audience.
• For those who do user interfaces: A discussion about web application interfaces, Google’s Gmail vs Apple’s MobileMe. The author writes that GMail is better for users because links are easier to understand, and it uses standard web elements, while Apple uses customized and non-standard icons. What do you think? Is it better to have a text-only interface for a website or using icons and imagery is better? 

Also, if you have interesting links that might be interesting for other readers, please post them below.

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6 comments tags: android, apache, apple, blogging, cpanel, google, iphone, rss, spam  | 

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Comments

1. iWeb-Op
   November 13th, 2008 6:21 pm

   The Google Search Engine Starter Guide is very interesting. We will send customer asking questions to this document.

2. Michele
   November 13th, 2008 10:31 pm

   That SEO starter guide from Google is fantastic. I’ll be sharing that will all my clients. It’s reassuring to see what I’ve been trying to teach my clients come directly from the horse’s mouth too. :)

   Thanks for the link,
   Michele

3. iWeb-Heri
   November 13th, 2008 10:41 pm

   Looks like everyone is interested in the Google guide. I know there are many consulting firms which published SEO guides (such as seomoz) but indeeed, it’s better to get it right from google. I’ll read it carefully, hopefully a new post coming up.

   Thanks for the comments!

4. iWeb-Op
   November 13th, 2008 11:21 pm

   It seems like Google does not talk a lot about the importance of link building though. It is a good starting guide but once you are started it is probably good to go deeper into it with SEO related resources because Google does not tell everything :-)

5. Pedro Roman
   November 14th, 2008 12:35 pm

   Here my picks:

   Who are you:
   I am a web designer

   What kind of plan do you have at iWeb?
   I have the web hosting plan (well i have 2)

   What kind of articles do you wish to see at the iWeb blog?
   I want more posts about web marketing 11

   Regards,

6. iWeb Blog » Search Engine Optimization tips right from Google
   November 19th, 2008 4:36 pm

   [...] was a wide interest about the SEO guide released by Google early last week; so this is a follow-up post with more details for those interested in search [...]

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