No more recent referrers
I disabled the recent referrers section in the sidebar tonight. Part of how your browser works, is it sends the URI or the page you are on to the page you go to next, that's called a referrer. I store that information, and then when people visit the site, I was displaying the last ten referrers that came from other web sites.
The Problem
Just like any other computer technology, it's fairly simple to fake data, and convince your browser to either not send referrer information, or to send false information. It's even possible to automate the process, so that a computer sends false referrer information to a site.
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- 2006-02-08
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The new site is live
Repeat visitors will probably notice that I've replaced the old site.
I had begun pondering the transformation some time ago, and this the fruit of that thought process.
I'll be crawling around the site all day making sure everything is working as expected and updating old links that will have broken now that the old site has moved. If you see anything that doesn't work, please let me know about it. Thanks.
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- 2005-08-15
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Google Page Rank
I've known that Google keeps a Page Rank for every site that it indexes, and I've also known that it changes constantly. Truthfully, I've never really paid much attention to it. I just search for a few key words and see how close to the top the sites I'm interested in are. I've decided to spend a little more time watching Page Rank, and this article marks the beginning of my education in SEO.
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- 2005-10-22
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Fancy urls
It seems that fancy urls are all the rage these days, and for good reason. They're human-readable, and they're search engine friendly so there's really no good reason not to use them.
I was on a quest to use them when I redesigned this site, and I wanted to automate it as much as possible. Most systems require a "slug" to be kept in the database for use in the page's url. I thought that I didn't need that, I can parse the titles and go from there. And I did, and all was well with my site.
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- 2005-08-28
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Accessibility
Among the goals I had set for myself in web site restructuring is to make this site very accessible. My last site was accessible, but there was a lot that I didn't implement until now.
This site contains a variety of accessibility enhancements enumerated below:
- The navigation on each page is located at the bottom of the mark up. There is no need for a skip navigation link because navigation is last.
- There is a skip to
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- 2005-08-11
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