Not only am I an SEO, I’m fairly good at webdesign as well. With webdesign I mean the translation of a nice idea by someone else into completely valid templates, others are often better in creating nice looks for a site. I’ve started my own webdesign company on the side for this: AlthA Webdesign.
Next to webdesign, I do a lot of web development using PHP, mainly using the different API’s of the search engines and social media networks out there to create mash ups.
OS X 10.5 Leopard: Spaces combined with Parallels
OS X 10.5 has this awesome great new feature called Spaces, they’re multiple desktops on steroids. You can assign programs to open in a specific Space, swiftly switch between them and loads more cool stuff. Now, if you’re a developer and need to test your stuff in Windows, you can assign Parallels (in which you [...]
Big hunkin’ list of Mac Tools for SEO’s and Webdevelopers
I’ve been wanting to do this list for quite a while, but I finally put myself to doing it: a big list of all the web development and SEO tools I use on my Mac. It’s a page, I’ll keep updating it when I find new apps that are worth mentioning there. If you have [...]
Webdesign survey
It’s up again, the annual webdesign survey by A List Apart, I took it, and so should you! (If you don’t like surveys do it for the prizes…)
Implementing a sitewide search function
Those of you coming to this site more often might have noticed a small change in the search box. It’s now implemented sitewide, and I’ve built a sitewide search functions using the Yahoo! API. It was quite nescessary because I found that people were searching for “sortable.zip” on the blog, and they wouldn’t find anything [...]
The correct way of using conditional comments
Some people, like Jens Meiert, have argued that using conditional comments to fix layout bugs for IE is wrong. For those of you who don’t know what they are, check out my article on conditional comments. I on the other hand, think that it’s the only proper way of working around IE CSS bugs. If [...]
PHPSESSID in your URL? Learn to 301 redirect them with PHP
I’m doing some work on a site which has like 4,500 pages indexed with a PHPSESSID in the URL, causing some major duplicate content problems. I got the server admin to disable the PHPSESSID’s by adding the following to the vhost config: I also wanted Google to get a clean URL when it decided to [...]
FeedRoll
Today I finished up my work on FeedRoll, a site which offers a widget to show RSS feeds on your site. I’ve fixed several things on it, yet the most fun came today. There was a colorpicker on it before that only worked on Internet Explorer 5 and up, and nothing else… Now, those of [...]
Sortable table script updated to v1.5.5
I got an email from Mozilla’s director of product management Sherman Dickman today, that my sortable table script wasn’t sorting numbers above 1 million which have comma’s in them correctly (they do have a lot of Firefox downloads ;) ). The problem was caused by the fact that replace only replaced items once, where they [...]
As usual, Technorati walks ahead of the pack
They “invented” blogsearch, and did a LOT for the webdevelopment and blogging community. Now Technorati, it turns out, is working on the microformats search I asked for only two articles ago (it was there before that, I just didn’t know about it)… Check it out in Technorati’s Kitchen.
Googling for microformats
Imagine, you can type in a query like “joost de valk class:vcard” and Google comes up with my contact page, because that has a vcard class in it’s markup, the main class of the hCard microformat. This was suggested today on the uf-discuss mailing list, a mailing list I’ve been lurking on for quite a [...]
