Archive for August, 2007

Good markup is search engine-friendly

Friday, August 31st, 2007

From xhtml.com

Only content free from formatting can be easily repurposed

The use of font element or inline CSS fuses content and formatting together. By turning off the CSS on your Web site, you can see if your content is free from formatting and if it can be easily repurposed in a different page layout, should you want to redesign your Web site in the future.

Content is king

Are visitors attracted to your Web because of its quality content or because of its pretty layout? By turning off the CSS on your Web site, you have the opportunity to see what you are really offering your visitors - quality content!

Search engine-friendly markup

Search engines are blind - they don’t see the pretty formatting on your site. By turning off the CSS on your Web site, you have the opportunity to see your Web site in a similar way to how search engines see it. Making sure your Web site works well with CSS turned off will make it easier for search engines to process your Web pages and will lead to a better search ranking.

Installing and Deploying JOALMixer

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Installing JOALMixer

To use the JOALMixer with a webstart application simply add the following line to your jnlp file:

<extension href="http://download.java.net/media/java3d/webstart/release/java3d-1.5.1-joal.jnlp"/>

This installs OpenAL, JOAL and the JOALMixer together with Java3D 1.5.1 which is everything needed to use the JOALMixer.

To use the JOALMixer with a desktop application you need to install OpenAL and JOAL (or bundle the jars and native libraries with your application), then put the JOALMixer.jar in the classpath of your application.

Launching Desktop App

To launch a desktop application using the mixer, use:

java -Dj3d.audiodevice="org.jdesktop.j3d.audioengines.joal.JOALMixer" yourApplication

and in your code use viewer.createAudioDevice();

OR

Initialize the JOALMixer directly in your code with:

PhysicalEnvironment pe = new PhysicalEnvironment();
JOALMixer joalMixer = new JOALMixer(pe);
joalMixer.initialize();
pe.setAudioDevice(joalMixer);
viewer.getView().setPhysicalEnvironment(pe);

Source

CSS Basic Box Model

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

CSS basic box model

CSS basic box model
W3C Working Draft 9 August 2007

This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-box-20070809

OpenAL SDK

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

OpenAL 1.1 Installer for Windows
Updated on 7/12/2007

The OpenAL Installer for Windows will install the OpenAL 1.1 libraries, enabling support for core OpenAL operations as well as extensions such as EAX and EFX. The installer supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

Services

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Hourly Rate

My Hourly rate is $75. Hours of work are may purchased one at a time when needed or in bulk. Hours may be used for any services and at any time services are needed.

Discounts are given for blocks of hours bought in advance. Savings increase with the number of hours purchased as described in the chart below. The hours may be used whenever you need.

Hours

Cost

Savings

1 $75 -
5 $356 5%
10
$690
8%
20 $1320 12%
50 $3188 15%
100 $5395 25%
250 $11,695 35%

Typical Services

Below are examples of services I offer for systems engineering.

Site Maintenance

Benefit
Increase Visitor Conversion - Visitor conversion is when a simple visit is “converted” into a lead. A visitor becomes a sales lead by entering information, requesting information, signing up for a newsletter. 

    Site maintenance consists of various elements.  Tools are used such as Google analytics and other statistical tracking software to understand how users use the website.  Tracking the website routinely I can perform services in the following disciplines.

    1. Site Performance - Tracking and Analysis - Routinely study the traffic of the site.
      • Search engine indexing rate
      • Search engine result quality
      • Search engine result ranking
    2. Site Quality - Adjust site such that it performs better, is upgraded with the most current software and has very low defects.
    3. Site Usability - Adjust site for optimal user experience

    Site Improvements

    Benefit
    Editor can easily update and add content to the website.

    The velocity of change and technology advancement means your site can always be improved. Fresh site content causes search engines to visit the site more frequently. Unfortunately a technology barrier exists which prohibits average users from entering content into their websites. I can help remove the barrier by …

    • Improving the website software until author can use it without technical assistance.
    • Site content advice and consulting and training.

    Technical Support and Computer Traing

    Benefit
    Increase user efficiency with technology. Systems maintained and fixed when needed.

    Remote access to the desktop is done in order to assist more quickly. Phone support is also an option.

    Summary

    If something isn’t on this list, most likely if its relating to computers I can help.

    Quickly Delete Cached Pages

    Monday, August 6th, 2007

    wp-cache thumbIf you’re using the wp-cache plugin for wordpress and you’re editing your website often and you have your cache turned on THEN you may want to make a quick link to blow away the pages in the cache. This is so you don’t have to go all the way into the admin pages wp-cache options blah, blah screen.

    [YOUR SITE]/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-cache/wp-cache.php&wp_delete_cache

    wp_delete_cache is the hidden page attribute that is submitted when you press the delete cache button.