Archive for the 'Web Design' Category
March 19th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Google, Page Rank, SEO
Posted in Google, Web Design
Since I started my new job I have been so much involved in discovering new technologies that I quite forgot to post any significant and regular update to this website. Google’s ranking algorithm did not pardon this move: my page rank fall from 7 to 4 !!!
With a page rank of 7 I had [...]
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July 3rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: tips, Web Design, web development
Posted in Marketing, Usability, Web Design
After nearly ten years creating web sites and web applications I have learned some lessons. Below are some points I chatted about with friends wondering about going into web development or web design and who asked me for some advice…
1) Be organized
Like any project, you need to be prepared before starting coding or designing anything. For [...]
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July 1st, 2008 at 9:38 am by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Adobe, Google, Searchability, SEO, SWF, Yahoo
Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex, Marketing, Point of View, Web Design
I’ve just read via the AXNA that Adobe, Google and Yahoo! worked together to allow SWF searchability. My first thought was ‘finally they made it’ :)
But while reading the FAQ I’ve been a little disappointed by how this indexation seems to happen:
[...]The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file similarly [...]
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June 26th, 2008 at 10:51 am by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: automated marketing, clickstream analysis, cognitive styles, dynamic programming, Internet marketing, website design
Posted in Intelligence, Web Design
Really interesting article from Technology Review about a Paper written by John Hauser, Glen L. Urban, Guilherme Liberali and Michael Braun.
It is about finding the user’s cognitive style (“a person’s preferred way of gathering, processing, and evaluating information”) by analyzing their pattern of click. In around 10 clicks the system can figure out whether a [...]
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May 27th, 2008 at 11:55 am by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Adobe, beta, CS4, Dreamweaver CS4
Posted in Adobe, Web Design
I had the hand on Dreamweaver CS4 for more than one month now, I’ll share with you what really helped me in my everyday life. To shorten, for people afraid of my English: if you didn’t make the move to DW CS3 du to the lack of improvement you will be happy with DW CS4!
It [...]
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Google, Keynotes, Spam, Video
Posted in Marketing, Web Design
Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team has published on his blog his session at Web 2.0 Expo:
You can access all the video from the expo on Blip.tv
It is interesting to note that Google have no problem with SEO and that the politic again (web) spammer is to make them lose time, effort and [...]
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May 7th, 2008 at 10:48 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Ajax, Flash, Flex, SEO, SWF, Usability
Posted in Marketing, Point of View, RIA, Usability, Web Design
Shari Thurow, the Founder and SEO Director of Omni Marketing Interactive wrote a very interesting answer in led-digest.com about the solution I blogged a while ago: ‘Holy Grail: SEO Model for Flash and Flex Content‘.
Here are a few quotes of her, with my answer below:
[...]as long as you are giving search engines one version of [...]
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May 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Digg, RDFa, Semantic, SWF, XSLT
Posted in Flash, Flex, Intelligence, RIA, Web Design
Recently Digg made an official adoption of RDFa (a set of extensions to XHTML being proposed by the W3C). While watching a tutorial about RDFa (below video) I asked myself how it could be possible to do it for Flash/ Flex document.
In fact bringing RDFa to a SWF itself is not possible, as I [...]
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April 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Tags: Flash, Flex, SEO, SWF, XML, XSLT
Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Flex, Marketing, RIA, Web Design
The discussion about SEO (search engines optimization) and SWF content(from Flash or Flex) has been long and turbulent.
Fortunately this discussion is coming to an end as now a proven solution exists. I made yesterday a presentation about it at the Adobe User Group of Geneva.
Here is the solution I prefer: using XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) [...]
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March 28th, 2008 at 11:44 am by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Flash, Flex, RIA, Web Design
During our next event at the Adobe User Group of Geneva I will make an introduction to SEO strategies and the best practice to extend them to SWF powered content. This presentation could also be named SEO for Rich Internet Application. As it is just an introduction I’ll try to make it in 30 minutes [...]
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