i have recently been attempting to write a small text editor application, and the main problem i found was migrating notepad settings over to my application, the font for 10pt was stored as 100. obviously, i needed to divide by 10, but when i did this, the font came out so small it was unreadable. [...]
Set font size in Win32 API EDIT Window
Posted: 27th July 2010 by Darren in Blog, Software Development0
Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
Posted: 16th July 2010 by Maile Ohye in SEO, Syndicated, Web DevelopmentTags: sitemaps
Webmaster Level: AllWe know that some of you, or your clients or colleagues, may be new to online video publishing. To make it easier for everyone to understand video indexing and Video Sitemaps, we’ve created a video — narrated by Nelson Lee, Video…
Sitemaps: One file, many content types
Posted: 29th June 2010 by Jonathan Simon in SEO, Syndicated, Web DevelopmentWebmaster Level: AllHave you ever wanted to submit your various content types (video, images, etc.) in one Sitemap? Now you can! If your site contains videos, images, mobile URLs, code or geo information, you can now create—and submit—a Sitemap wit…
Webmaster Level: AllAs part of our efforts to make search results more useful to our users around the world, we’re announcing the international availability of rich snippets. If you’ve been following our blog posts, you already know that rich snip…
Init Google Gears with jQuery
Posted: 22nd April 2010 by Darren in Blog, Web Development, jQueryTags: gears, google, jquery, js, plugin
I took a look around the web for a jQuery plugin for google gears as i would like to initialise gears on user input, and not as the web page loads, but could not find one anywhere. So i have written the following plugin, based on googles own gears_init.js code which inits gears on page [...]
Webmaster Level: IntermediateThat is the question we hear often. Onward to the answers! Historically, it’s common for URLs with a trailing slash to indicate a directory, and those without a trailing slash to denote a file:http://example.com/foo/ (…
Webmaster Level: AllThe single best way to make Google aware of all your videos on your website is to create and maintain a Video Sitemap. Video Sitemaps provide Google with essential information about your videos, including the URLs for the pages wher…
Move Minimize, Maximize and Close window buttons back to the right on Ubuntu
Posted: 18th April 2010 by Darren in BlogTags: conf, config, ubuntu
As you know, the close, maximize and minimize buttons belong on the right hand side of the window title bar. For some reason in recent history, ubuntu decided to move them to the left hand side to be more inline with Mac OSX windows. Considering ubuntu is supposed to be an operating system aimed at [...]
PHP Installer for Web Apps
Posted: 15th April 2010 by Darren in PHP, Web DevelopmentTags: installer, php, slow ftp, small files, zip
We all know uploading things via ftp like Squirrel Mail or phpMyAdmin, or any application that has 100′s of small files takes a long time. This is mainly due to the overhead in the commands that have to be preformed to upload each file individually. The first thing we need to do is to package all of [...]
More data and charts in Top Search Queries
Posted: 14th April 2010 by Jonathan Simon in SEO, SyndicatedTags: analytics, data, google, SEO
Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve got good news for site owners who are frequent users of the Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools: we’re now providing more detailed data for each individual search query. We previously just reported the average posi…