The Blog Revisited - 9
This is the last part on “The Blog Revisited” before going ahead with regular posting. All posts that appeared June onwards (number was comparatively low) are covered here.
Google Webmaster Tools - A Tutorial describes all features of Google Webmasters tools.
WinAPI saw last two posts (I just can’t leave this subject… it always bounces back) WinAPI : More on Font Object & Which Hindi / Devnagari Unicode font is installed on the system?. The latter one describes application that enumerates all installed fonts to see if a particular script (here Devnagari/Hindi) is supported or not.
What if you published a post and then found that the url that wordpress generated is not appropriate. You can just change it follwing this article WordPress : Change Post URL after it’s Published
Pass Google Verification to use Analytics for your WordPress.com Blog was an experiment that though I succeeded in a little but all my expectations did not fulfill.
This blog is hosted at wordpress.com with two premium upgrades Custom CSS & Domain Mapping. Both of these functionalities can be obtained free at blogger.com. See a comparison between the two at WordPress.com Vs Blogger.com
Browser market has never been stable. First it was in Netscape’s hand which it later lost to Internet Explorer and now Firefox is fast emerging with Safari making debut in PC browser market. So if you are developing with a single browser in mind your page may fail to display properly in others. Read a bit on how to check cross browser compatibility of your design at CSS Design - Cross browser compatibility
Internet is full of information both valuable and junk. While you need to visit a site to see valuable information junk information find many readers though mail forwarding. Read Email forwarding - All Fun and No Responsibility ?
Tweaking registry series saw a lot of new posts as listed below.
- Tweaking Registry for Ctrl+Alt+Delete
- Tweaking Registry for Start Menu
- Tweaking Registry for Start Menu - XP & Vista
I am unaware of why people shy away from adopting Microsoft standards (sometimes Microsoft too is guilty). Conditional Comments in Internet Explorer is a feature that all browsers can adapt but unfortunately it never went ahead of Internet Explorer (just like MARQUEE tag).
WordPress.com saw a few enhansements. Read about them through below links
There were two posts on Indian languages. Bhomiyo.Com - Indic Transliteration on the Fly describes a service that transliterates between various Indian Scripts on the fly. Google came out with the standalone Hindi transliteration web application. This facility was earlier available with only Blogger.com. Read about it at Google Hindi Transliteration spreads out
Other Google stories were as below :
- Domain Name Change Side-effect - It’s Happening
- Google Toolbar PR Update
- Don’t Mess With Google : John Chow Experience
- Drive Slowly : Google Ahead
- Subscribe RSS feeds in Google Reader with ease in IE
- Competing With Google Search
O’Reilly is a site that left me wondering. Reason. While the complete pages are indexed by Google, none of those contents are on the html page that a visitor views. Further most of the indexed content is not available for a normal visitor. Seems like it has some partnership with Google. So then Who needs to take care of SEO when SE itself is following it. Read O’Reilly Safari - Who wants SEO?. O’Reilly Safari - Who needs to Update? is my grievance on not updating the pages related to free trial accounts which though seems to be still available, are denied only after browsing through a couple of pages.
The Digg Game is the post that I thought would be read lot but was not…
Below are a few other posts to read
