All it takes is a small .htc script and a little CSS tweak
January 24, 2008
Like GIFs and JPEGs, PNG images are ideal for web use. Like GIFs, the PNG is great for displaying small images with few colors, like logos and icons. Also, PNGs sport a few advantages over GIF images. Most notably, they support alpha transparency.
What is alpha-transparency? GIF files are only capable of displaying a pixel as either completely transparent or completely opaque: this is known as binary transparency. When an image contains alpha layers, however, parts of an image can be partially transparent. You can specify a level of transparency from 0 to 255.
What search engines show in their results
January 24, 2008
The meta “description” tag gives information about a web page. The first and the foremost reason is, that the content of meta “description” tag, usually called snippet, is the thing which most search engine extracts and shows up in search results. This is the place where chances of people visitng the page can be improved vastly. One has to be very creative and carefull to make sure that the descriptions are truly descriptive and not redundant. Redundant, in the sense, that the title of a page contains some lead text for the page, which usually comes as a link to the content in search results. The content of meta “description” tag should not be same as the text in the title. A potential visitor might be lost by not providing more and relevant information. This also means we are not using the meta information to its full potential.
