How to Know the Traffic of a Website
What is Alexa?
Alexa is a search engine that records visits to each site from its toolbar, which must be installed on the Internet browser. The statistics shown are updated every week.
Using Search Status, we know the position of a site on the Web by moving the mouse on the blue bar, it displays a numerical value that is the rank of the site on the Web. For more details, you go on the site of Alexa, click on “Traffic Ranking” at the top of the screen, you enter a domain name and click on “Get details.”
Alexa is also at the origin of archives.org that stores all websites over time, and it was bought by Amazon in 1999. 
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10 excellent books for learning web design
So, you wanna be a web designer? In addition to the long hours, low pay, and diminished social status, you’ll find yourself competing against the likes of “My cousin’s neighbor’s 8th grade daughter is good with computers. Maybe she could do my website?” scenario. She probably would do it. For a Jonas Brothers sticker book. Anyway, as I’m sure you are well aware, you can find tons of resources for learning right here on the interwebs. But let’s harken back to a simpler time. Back when learning materials were printed on pressed wood pulp. So throw off those Hush Puppies, kick back in the Barcalounger, grab a Yoo-Hoo and let’s dive right in to the best books for learning web design (varying degrees of experience levels of course): Read more »
Poll Results: How Do You Email?
I drew the chart above with the <canvas> element. So if you can’t see it, I guess that means your browser doesn’t support it. I didn’t do anything fancy at all, just some rectangles, this is literally my first time trying it. The bars represent the different “ways you can email” described in the opening post.
The runaway winner was Pure Cloud, with 53% of people that exclusively use an online mail service, through a browser, like GMail or Yahoo or Hotmail or whatever else. In second place, Localized Cloud, with 21% of people who use an online mail service, but pipe it through a local mail program. 18% said Pure Local, meaning they use a local mail program as well as run their own mail servers on their own domain names. Finally, only 8% said they used a Clouded Local setup, where they run their own domains and mail servers, but use an online mail service to interact with it.
AJAX Instant Edit
AJAX & CSS Flickr-like Editing Fields
AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding – AJAX Auto Completer
Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we’ve used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces and functionalities, which used to be the privelege of professional desktop-applications. AJAX makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. And it’s the first step towards rich internet applications of the future.
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML isn’t a new programming language, as it is often mistakingly called. Basically, AJAX is a set of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, put together and used together for the same purpose – to improve the user-server-interaction.
Best CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actually, it is.
Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites
Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read
Peachpit Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0-321-59193-3 | 263 pages | PDF | 8.3 Mb
WordPress has done its part to help spread the allure of blogging by making it very easy to start a blog—and to update that blog after it’s up and running. WordPress isn’t the only blogging tool in town. Lots of popular tools are out there, including Movable Type, Tumblr, Habari, and Blogger. Given all these choices, why should you use WordPress?
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Windows 7: Up and Running: A quick, hands-on introduction
Wei-Meng Lee, “Windows 7: Up and Running: A quick, hands-on introduction”
O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 2009 | ISBN: 0596804040 | 202 pages | PDF | 8,8 MB
This compact book offers the quickest path for Windows users to get started with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. You get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of Windows 7’s features and built-in applications.
Web Traffic Surges Ahead in 2009 as Commercial Websites Adopt New Strategies
Last month we teamed up with Enquiro Search Solutions to produce an article on some of the trends we have noticed on the web. The article also includes some of the strategies you can use to ensure that your business is able to stay successful during these troubled times. Below is the article published on February 12, 2009.
Sharing Newsletter Statistics
Each time one of our clients uses SwiftSend to release an email marketing message, SwiftSend generates a robust report. I thought it would be interesting to share some of our statistics.
