Scott Yang's Playground

Adam Penenberg talks on Wired on how easy it is to manipulate search engine result by buying/selling links. But a big warning sign should have be written across the top – “Excessive SEO is playing with fire!” And yeah, PageRank manipulation is so 90′s, which does not work that well today. The best SEO is [...]

A Tidy based HTML validator for Firefox, so that you can validate the web pages you visit instantly, without falling back to w3c’s validation service. Very very neat. Now the question is, should I surf around and be a W3C standard nazi?

Boris Mann claimed that URLs are dead because no one remembers them and everyone is googling what they want anyway. Aargh! URLs are far from dead! It is still doing what it was designed to do – provides an universal unique identifier to any resource, whether it is on the web, FTP, Gopher or on [...]

Open Laszlo – a cool open source web application development platform that compiles the code into Flash to run on the client side. XML is everywhere, and client side can be coded in Javascript.

Lloyd Hannesson has revamped MovableStyle.com with a new style and separated style testing sites. Looks great. Well done! Maybe I’ll sit done to do some CSS hacks again soon.

Via ProBlogger, there lists 15 ways to make your blogsite or website more attractive. Nah. Don’t agree with all of them, and here’s my 16th – get rid of the bloody ads and that will make at least one customer happy.

Two essential Firefox extensions for web developers – LiveHTTPHeaders and Web Developer. One allows you to inspect HTTP headers, and another one gives you quick access to some interesting tools.

John Hicks discovered a way to apply styles to only IE for Windows and Mac, while Mozilla, Opera and Safari would silently ignore it. Exactly what I am looking for! It does not validate though.

What I have been working on recently is a re-construction of the FOCUS website, which I have explained here. I have been doing a bit of work on a new simpler FOCUS website using an existing content management software. Here is what I would like to achieve: Simple and clean interface. CSS driven, and avoid [...]

A list of sites with PageRank 10. It used to be the holy grail for the web developers and search engine optimisers, but these days there is just much muc more than PageRank.

Getting Google PageRank on your FireFox/Mozilla. Now there is just one less use of Internet Explorer, which was needed to run Google Toolbar before. 5/10 on this site, dropped from 6/10 last month due to last 5 day outage.

Pete Ottery from f2.com.au outlined the process of SMH redesign to be more web standard compliant. Nice stuff – from market research to actual XHTML and CSS.

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released with a new theme. Lots of bug fixes and enhancements, and overall it just feels smooth. Days of IE are indeed numbered.

Getting sick of CSS but cannot find a valid excuse? D. Keith Robinson will put that in dollar amount, showing how much less a web developer would earn if the site is layed out in CSS rather than HTML table. Yes. I am being sacarstic again.

Another Movable Type related entry. I have posted my plan to give away my little style sheet project, Movable Style. I am echoing it here as well, just in case someone is interested. Due to personal busyness, commitment to work/home/church, disappointment with MT3, etc, I have decided to stop working on Movable Style, a site [...]