Facebook Privacy Settings GRAPH APP Myth
I just saw this post on Facebook which if you follow it's recommendations actually steps your friends through removing themselves from seeing your posts and comments. I don't know if it's on snopes.com yet, but I'm sure it'll be there soon.The statement goes like this (i added highlights to show the flags that should make you suspicious of the content).HEADS UP!!! FACEBOOK HAS CHANGED THEIR PRIVACY SETTINGS ONCE MORE!!! DUE TO THE NEW “GRAPH APP” ANYONE ON FACEBOOK (INCLUDING OTHER...
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Close the browser using javascript from classic asp
Before I get into this subject, I use to Google my searches for anything asp with a -.net in order to keep out the asp.net groups, but that doesn't appear to work as well anymore. Now the keyword I use is classic asp.One of my recent problems has been to close out a window that I opened after the user updated some data on. Some explanation... I have a data entry page that pulls up the next record automatically when the user presses the submit button. I supply the data in a window and the user...
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Bing Webmaster tools
Just got a new email today from the webmaster team at Bing:Dear Bing Webmaster User,As of June 7th, the Bing Webmaster Tools site that you know has changed.Bing has been investing in building its Webmaster Tools for a while now and we have recently launched a revised webmaster experience that offers expansion in tools, data coverage and content. The site redesign makes it easier for you to find content, tools and data to help meet your needs. Our new features include expanded functionality, and...
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Follow up on Web Master tools
I set up my site on 3 major search engine Web Master Tools sites: Google, Bing and Yahoo. I was surprised to see that Yahoo was submitting my sitemap information to Microsoft. Apparently, they are collaborating. I placed my information on those search engines back in 2009. Yahoo and Bing have not checked or re indexed the sitemap since I set it up originally. So much for submitting a sitemap.Google has been checking the sitemap. They have a page that shows the errors in the site crawl and the...
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Blog modification
I didn't like the form for making a comment to display on the page unless the reader wanted to leave a comment. It made the page look way too busy and I'm of the opinion that not everyone is going to leave a comment. So, I decided to hide it and leave a link the user could click to get the comment form to display.I'm know you can hide information on a page using CSS styles and then use javascript to change the style characteristic to show the hidden information. For example the CSS style to hide...
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The Bing Experince
Well I feel foolish. I wrote this based on my frustrations from a couple of weeks ago. I decided after writing this that I'd go back and see how Bing was doing and they crawled my site yesterday. Perhaps their servers took a Christmas and New Year's break. Who knows. But on their forums, Site indexing is the subject with the most posts.Even though my site wasn't being indexed and the control panel summary profile wasn't showing that I was being indexed, the tab that showed sites that pointed to...
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Web master tools
Implemented Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster tools (The experience with Bing was less than satisfactory).
surrealcms
Implemented surrealcms on this web site and applying it to other web sites I designed.