All Entries in the "Educational" Category
What is a Favicon and why would I need it?
bismimg What Is a Favicon? A favicon (short for favorites icon and pronounced fav-eye-con), also known as a page icon, an urlicon, website icon, shortcut icon or bookmark icon is a 16×16 pixel square icon (image) associated with a particular website or webpage. You can see the Favicons nearly on all professionally developed websites. Favicon [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-II
bismimg Assalamu alaykum, This is the continuation of my previous post where I discussed Link Popularity as one of the new ways of ranking websites that Google introduced a few years ago. Google also introduced another idea which was called Page Rank where not all links were treated equal. For example, if I had 1 [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-I.
bismimg Assalamu alaykum, Today inshallah, I would like to talk about how search engines like Google and others decide how to rank sites. In other words, what happens inside the search engines that decide to rank one website higher than another. In early days, the main search engines such as Infoseek, Lycos, Excite etc. used [...]
What are the benefits of an accessible website?
bismimg Designing sites in accordance with Web accessibility principles is necessary in order to enable access to all users. If your website is less usable or built incorrectly, you will lose website visitors and may even be breaking the law! The Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 says it’s unlawful to exclude disabled people from the [...]
What is Web 2.0? – Part II
bismimg Assalamu alaykum! Today I want to talk about the characteristics of the Web 2.0, inshallah. As opposed to Web 1.0, with Web 2.0 websites users can do more than just retrieve information. Web 2.0 sites allow users to own some part of the content and exercise control over that content. A simple example is [...]
What is Web 2.0? – Part I
bismimg Assalamu alaykum. Everyone these days may have been stumbling upon the term called Web 2.0 for the past few years and undoubtedly not everyone knows what Web 2.0 means, I guess. Today’s post I dedicated to clarifying this term, inshallah. According to the Wikipedia, the term Web 2.0 describes the changing tendency in the [...]
