Jan 22
Geplaatst in Internet, Skyrocket
I’m looking for a good hosting deal for some small to medium websites i’m developing. Anyone has some suggestions or needs some reffers? Just leave a comment.
Little update, minimum requirements are controlpanel with at least the same ease of use as Plesk which means: Crontabs, Databasemanager, Detailed DNS settings, mailsettings (autoreply, groups, …) and subdomains.
While writing the previous post I made a staggering discovery. Spreadfirefox.com, the premier site dedicated to promoting the o-so-popular alternative browser, doesn’t have a single link to the firefox homepage or a downloadlink for firefox on their homepage. They are there for marketing firefox though, they say it themselves.
As a small, non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation has very limited resources at its disposal to market Firefox to the world. SpreadFirefox was created to fill this void, and was founded on the same principles of community involvement that drive the development and testing of Firefox. We believe there is nothing that a large community of enthusiastic volunteers can’t accomplish, and this site exists to unite the community into one cohesive marketing force that even competitors with unlimited resources can’t compete with. For more information, see our original announcement.
Ok, I agree that the site is dedicated to people looking for marketing material for promoting the browser but still it’s a little silly they don’t offer a link to the product they are marketing. The site is run by several members of the core Firefox and mozilla team. Maybe they have a reason they didn’t link there but I can’t think of one really. Can you?
Firefox is on the road to becoming a serious threat for MSIE for the most popular browser. Recent studies by XiTi, a french buro for market research, show that Firefox now has over 20% average marketshare in Europe and 15% in the US. A good evolution i’d say, now lets only hope Microsoft gets their act together and offers a product which doesn’t cause us webdesigners hours of frustration. Cross your fingers.
Via http://www.spreadfirefox.com
Gord Collins wrote a nice and thorough article on SEO and the new Google pagerank algorithm. He explains how Google used to apply pagerank and how it changed overtime. Worth a million is the example he gives on the searchengine ranking of PHP.net and it’s relation to the Zend website. Stuffed with usefull tips this is a must read for any webdesigner outthere that doesn’t know alot about SEO yet. Worth your time!
Jan 15
Geplaatst in Applicaties, Internet
It was a little unclear at some point but the people behind SteunFirefox.nl have found a way to put the money they raised to good use. The initiative is a follow up from the pagesized Firefoxad in the New York Times and a big German newpaper. Rumours were that the dutch version of this initiative didn’t raise enough money to buy a pagewide ad in a dutch national newspaper. After the rumours were confirmed by the people behind this initiative the question rose what to do with the money they collected. Now they have agreed to put a pagesized ad in Sp!ts, a free newspaper with over 1.6 million daily readers in the netherlands. They still need €600 ($728) to get to the required amount of €10.000 ($12,135) for the advertisement. I’ve already paypalled some money, why don’t you help them raise the rest of the money and make the web a better place for all of us.
Via http://tweakers.net