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16.7.08
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15.7.08
Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1
Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1: "Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1
By Jared M. Spool
Originally published: Jul 09, 2008
When creating a search results page, it's unfortunately too easy to produce an ineffective design. We know this because, in the course of our research, we've studied hundreds of search results pages. Many of the pages we've studied hurt the user's experience purely because of their design.
A slew of problems occur when users encounter an ineffective search results page: Users can't identify what is relevant to their search. Many of the links are irrelevant to them. They find it hard to tell the differences between the various results, making the choice difficult. These problems force users to click into each result, often ending with them abandoning the search altogether.
The good news is we've seen many effective search results pages. This means there's hope. It also means we can start to look for patterns that separate the effective designs from their less effective counterparts.
Good Design Doesn't Just Happen
In our research, every time we found a site where the search results were doing what they should, we also found a team that had worked really hard to make it that way.
Those teams all have something in common. They've experimented thoroughly, trying out dozens of designs"
By Jared M. Spool
Originally published: Jul 09, 2008
When creating a search results page, it's unfortunately too easy to produce an ineffective design. We know this because, in the course of our research, we've studied hundreds of search results pages. Many of the pages we've studied hurt the user's experience purely because of their design.
A slew of problems occur when users encounter an ineffective search results page: Users can't identify what is relevant to their search. Many of the links are irrelevant to them. They find it hard to tell the differences between the various results, making the choice difficult. These problems force users to click into each result, often ending with them abandoning the search altogether.
The good news is we've seen many effective search results pages. This means there's hope. It also means we can start to look for patterns that separate the effective designs from their less effective counterparts.
Good Design Doesn't Just Happen
In our research, every time we found a site where the search results were doing what they should, we also found a team that had worked really hard to make it that way.
Those teams all have something in common. They've experimented thoroughly, trying out dozens of designs"
14.7.08
SEO and importance of 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Explains why you need to set your sites up to send 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable headers when your site is down .. i.e., being developed, php issue, etc.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
13.7.08
Top RDF namespaces
Top RDF namespaces: "Top RDF namespaces
Tim Finin, 1:00pm 23 September 2007
James Simmons posted about PTSW’s namespaces page, which has a complete list of the 388 namespaces they have seen with frequencies of use. We reported on the Swoogle’s list of the 100 most common RDF namespaces last year. There are some interesting differences. I’ve put the top 20 from each list side by side.
It’s interesting to note that there are only eight namespaces that are common to both lists — these are in black. The ones that are unique to a single list are in red.
PTSW Swoogle
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
http://blogs.yandex.ru/schema/foaf/ http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos# http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns# http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
http://rdfs.org/sioc/types# http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/
http://www.geonames.org/ontology# http://webns.net/mvcb/
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#
http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/ http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/
http://smw.ontoware.org/2005/smw# http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-… http://w"
Tim Finin, 1:00pm 23 September 2007
James Simmons posted about PTSW’s namespaces page, which has a complete list of the 388 namespaces they have seen with frequencies of use. We reported on the Swoogle’s list of the 100 most common RDF namespaces last year. There are some interesting differences. I’ve put the top 20 from each list side by side.
It’s interesting to note that there are only eight namespaces that are common to both lists — these are in black. The ones that are unique to a single list are in red.
PTSW Swoogle
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
http://blogs.yandex.ru/schema/foaf/ http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos# http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns# http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
http://rdfs.org/sioc/types# http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/
http://www.geonames.org/ontology# http://webns.net/mvcb/
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#
http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/ http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/
http://smw.ontoware.org/2005/smw# http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-… http://w"
12.7.08
Links to Windows Issues and Tweaks
While I do think that programmers, artists, engineers, etc should be compensated for their work, I do not think that the compensation always needs to be money. I think that an operating system (OS), which is critical to any system, should not have a price tag associated with it. It should be a communal effort and have it's own rewards.
That in mind, we live in a real world and there exist certain operating systems in our world that have built a business on charging people money. Hey, it is a market economy and if people are willing to pay, let them. However, they may not know there is an alternative.
Below are some links that can help you better configure your chosen OS or fix issues with it.
Modifying your Windows XP Boot logo
Changin the winxp logon screen
64bit - x64 - TweakVI for Windows Vista - 32 and 64bit
Encrypted WordPress Site Backups
backups contain all your sensitive information, its smart to encrypt any sql backups.. and while we’re at it, also encrypt any site backups.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
6.7.08
Adding Print Capability to your Site with CSS X
Adding Print Capability to your Site with CSS
Jul 01, 08
Its really nice to be able to print out a webpage you are reading using your browsers built-in print feature. Using CSS you can easily transform your site into a print-friendly site.
Today I received an email from a visitor to my site requesting that I add a way to print site articles on AskApache
Finally, you have so much great stuff that I need to print it take it offline so I can consume it. However, your theme prints just awful with huge empty spaces between paragraphs and especially with some of your example code, i.e. see “Redirect All Feeds to Feedburner’s MyBrand”. Not sure if you care but it would really be great for those of us who print if you could clean it up for nicer printing to fully print your examples and to get rid of the excessive whitespace.
4.7.08
AskApache Web Development
AskApache Web Development: "Encrypted WordPress Site Backups_
Bash Shell Script for Encrypted WordPress BackupsEnter your DOMAIN_ROOT and the location of your wp-config.php, and this script finds all the mysql settings by parsing the wp-config.php file, creates GPG encrypted backups, and saves your settings for future quickness."
Bash Shell Script for Encrypted WordPress BackupsEnter your DOMAIN_ROOT and the location of your wp-config.php, and this script finds all the mysql settings by parsing the wp-config.php file, creates GPG encrypted backups, and saves your settings for future quickness."
2.7.08
Fsockopen Power Plays
Fsockopen Power Plays: "Fsockopen Examples
fsockopen warningNote the warning sign, fsockopen is dangerous in the sense that you can crash your server, perform a DOS against your own server or other site, use up all your servers available sockets and fd descriptors, use up your bandwidth, etc.. Shouldn’t be a problem unless you are being malicious or careless.
Here are some BOSS fsockopen functions I hacked together yesterday for use in my AskApache Crazy Cache WordPress Plugin. I’ve used code and ideas from 100’s of authors, projects, and docs to try to make this the very best I can.
Intro
This is a working example employing as many of the best-practices, tips, and tricks for using fsockopen on remote streams that I could find."
fsockopen warningNote the warning sign, fsockopen is dangerous in the sense that you can crash your server, perform a DOS against your own server or other site, use up all your servers available sockets and fd descriptors, use up your bandwidth, etc.. Shouldn’t be a problem unless you are being malicious or careless.
Here are some BOSS fsockopen functions I hacked together yesterday for use in my AskApache Crazy Cache WordPress Plugin. I’ve used code and ideas from 100’s of authors, projects, and docs to try to make this the very best I can.
Intro
This is a working example employing as many of the best-practices, tips, and tricks for using fsockopen on remote streams that I could find."
Fsockopen Power Plays
Examples and discussions of the best-practices, tips, and tricks for using fsockopen in php that I could find
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
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