Well maybe Google's 404 Error Page Widget isn't that new, but I'm getting on in years and my journey across cyberspace isn't quite as swift as it once was. But it interested me anyway, because I know how pissed off 404 Error Pages make me.
Especially when they just pop up and hang their shouting blahhhhhh at you!
Of course the 404 Error Page Widget can be found in Google's Webmaster Tools.
This new "Enhance 404 Pages" allows you to embed a widget into your error page which will provide your user with suggestions and search functionality. That way your website visitor is less likely to leave your website, and more likely to continue browsing your website to find what they are looking for.
According to Expand Marketing, where I found out about this, this feature is experimental at this stage and will most evolve and develop as Google gets suggestions and comments. Get more information about the tool on Google Webmaster Blog
August 22, 2008
July 17, 2008
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
by Brian Clark
1. Write.
2. Write more.
3. Write even more.
4. Write even more than that.
5. Write when you don’t want to.
6. Write when you do.
Read more about 10 Steps to becoming a better writer and other copywriting tips for online success at Copyblogger
1. Write.
2. Write more.
3. Write even more.
4. Write even more than that.
5. Write when you don’t want to.
6. Write when you do.
Read more about 10 Steps to becoming a better writer and other copywriting tips for online success at Copyblogger
July 15, 2008
The end of journalism: Associated Press *encourages* bias
AP has decided that "fair and balanced" reporting is out. The new head of the Washington bureau encourages reporters to write in first person and make personal analyses of the story rather than just reporting the facts.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
July 8, 2008
Rock Star Website Review: Madonna.com
As Inviting as a Candy Shop. Spend more time than 4 Minutes.Whether Candy Shop or 4 Minutes is your favorite, Madonna.com has been transformed into a Sticky & Sweet theme park with the bold look and feel of her Hard Candy Album.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
July 4, 2008
Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
When I saw this blogpost I knew I had to have it, I didn't just want to read Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes, I wanted to own it, because I am one who has made one of the mistakes, and my clients make URl Design Mistakes over and over again.
Sure it is important how your URL is designed, "A bad URL means your website or page won’t be found, clicked, visited and linked or submitted to social media. Without proper URLs most of your other great web design, usability and SEO measures get wasted."
For most of us the question is simply "How well can I be Googled?"
I work with Joomla and I know that some of the PHP stuff isn't pretty - but hey, you win some you lose some.
Anyway, Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes is certainly worth reading - and thinking about!
Sure it is important how your URL is designed, "A bad URL means your website or page won’t be found, clicked, visited and linked or submitted to social media. Without proper URLs most of your other great web design, usability and SEO measures get wasted."
For most of us the question is simply "How well can I be Googled?"
I work with Joomla and I know that some of the PHP stuff isn't pretty - but hey, you win some you lose some.
Anyway, Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes is certainly worth reading - and thinking about!
June 18, 2008
Amazon Bans South African Post Office
If you're like me and you regularly have books sent over from Amazon.com, forget it, because Amazon has blacklisted the SA Post Office.
According to SAPA, rampant theft by Post Office workers has infuriated internet retailing giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to South Africa by post, Business Day has reported.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now pay for a private courier service adding about R420 to the price of a DVD.
No one from the Post Office would comment.
No other African country's postal service had been blacklisted by Amazon, Business Day said.
When I read this, I first checked the date to see if it wasn't April 1. I mean I know that theft is bad from the Post Office, but the fact that Amazon.com would blacklist the Post Office is terrible, how am I going to get my new Kindle?
According to SAPA, rampant theft by Post Office workers has infuriated internet retailing giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to South Africa by post, Business Day has reported.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now pay for a private courier service adding about R420 to the price of a DVD.
No one from the Post Office would comment.
No other African country's postal service had been blacklisted by Amazon, Business Day said.
When I read this, I first checked the date to see if it wasn't April 1. I mean I know that theft is bad from the Post Office, but the fact that Amazon.com would blacklist the Post Office is terrible, how am I going to get my new Kindle?
June 17, 2008
Times Online Offers 20 Million Articles for Free
Times Online has rolled out an elaborate digital newspaper archive stretching back more than 200 years. The archive includes more than 20 miliion articles from every edition of the Times, bar a small number of damaged issues, from 1785 to 1985.
It includes the Thunderer's coverage of events such as the Battle of Waterloo, the first convicts arriving at Botany Bay and the execution of Marie Antoinette, the sinking of the Titanic. Other issues cover the 1851 Great Exhibition, the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 and Amelia Earhart's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932.
The archive also includes letters to the editor, photographs and adverts, with each page presented as it was printed in the paper on a parchment-coloured screen. Anne Spackman, the editor-in-chief of Times Online, said that the Times wanted the project to set the gold standard for an online newspaper archive for 'arguably the most famous newspaper in the world'. The archive is currently free, and Spackman says no decision will be taken about whether it will remain free or require a subscription until it has generated a solid user base.
Pages are scanned using 'optical character recognition technology', which means articles can be tagged and searched more easily. More than 150 topic pages, such as 'war and revolution', are designed to make content easier to search.
For me, the interesting articles are the coverage of Crime in the UK over the years - Jack the Ripper, the Moors Murders, the Kray Twins, the Great Train Robbery and then from the USA, the Gang Feuds in Chicago and the arrest of Al Capone.
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