Written by
David Artiss. Published 3 years, 1 month ago. In categories
Web Development.
That’s my YSlow rating for the BMTG website.
It’s taken me a year but I’ve done it. The only thing missing – that elusive 9% – is a CDN. But I’m not going to have that so I now have the highest rating I can achieve.
Once this site is at its new host, I’ll start looking at the same thing (restrictions on the .htaccess file, amongst other things, prevents me at the moment).
To put this in perspective, Amazon.co.uk and Apple.com both have a score of 63%, Microsoft.com a score of 94% and PC Pro a score of 52%. Google, not surprisingly, scores 99%. What is surprising, though, is that Yahoo – the people who originated this scoring system – gets 82%.
Written by
David Artiss. Published 3 years, 4 months ago. In categories
Web Development.
Google provide some excellent tools for adding translation facilities to your website. They also provide browser tools so that you can quickly translate a page that you might be on.
With that in mind they’ve taken the appropriate step of adding facilities for web developers to override this.
For example, to stop translation on a section of your site add class="notranslate" to the appropriate tag, such as DIV or SPAN.
To prevent translation on an entire page, add the following to the <HEAD> section…
<meta name="google" value="notranslate">
Written by
David Artiss. Published 3 years, 4 months ago. Last modified 1 week, 3 days ago. In categories
Web Development.
Google have announced a new feature in their Webmaster Tools. In a nutshell it will display all pages that link to a missing page on your site – you have a chance to fix it or take advantage of it.
So, if a site was linking to an erroneously spelt page then you could create a redirect for this to the correct page – ensuring you still get the visitors to the appropriate page.
BMTG was okay (apart from a misspelling on my own blog, so I was able to correct that) as was Copy+. However, I can see the advantage of this tool and will be keeping an eye on it in future.
Considering how regularly new versions of Firefox now come along, that's quite some bug fix list in version 10! 
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