Key Google search teammates Matt Cutts, Ben Gomes, and Amit Singhal have worked together for over a decade in what was described as the “cool kids’ office” in Steven Levy’s book, In the Plex. Alongside countless other Googlers, they have dedicated themselves to make search more relevant, accurate, and personal.
A very good explanation of how algorithm search changes are made and implemented. Read More
How Google algorithm changes implemented
CSS :nth-child(n) selector example
The :nth-child(n) selector matches elements on the basis of their positions within a parent element’s list of child elements. The :nth-child accepts an argument, N, which can be a keyword, a number, or a number expression of the form an+b.
It is not supported in Internet Explorer 8 (or older) at all. Supporting browsers: Read More
The short history of HTML5
In 1998, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) decided they would not continue to evolve HTML and froze the standard at HTML 4.01. W3C instead moved forward with XML and the XHTML standard. This new standard, based on XML, required self-closing tags and syntax rule like quoting attributes to name a few.
The XHTML was transitional, meaning you could still get away with using HTML 4.01. The hope was that this would give designers and developers the time to move to the strict XHMTL standard. With this in place W3C began work on XHTML 2.0, which would completely change the language and was not backwards compatible. The consortium thought this new standard was more logical and better designed and in the long run it would be worth the challenges of changing the syntax. Read More
Sticky Posts per Category
Using WordPress as a CMS, I needed the sticky posts to display on the top of the page per category and then display the rest of the post (in the category) in alphabetical order by title.
I ended up running 2 loops, 1 for sticky post and 1 without. I created a category.php file and I’m using the follow queries:
QR codes
You may have seen one of these QR Codes in the pages of your favorite magazine, promotional mailer or just around town. The codes are increasing popularly has customers are more reliant on mobile smart phones for information on the go.
What are QR codes?
A QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional (matrix) barcodes. QR is the abbreviation for Quick Response, as the creator intended; the code allows its contents to be decoded at very high speed. The QR Code was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. Read More






