No matter how much time, effort and money you invest into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques, other factors also come into play when Google and other search engines calculate your page ranking.

If you are wondering if blogging is for you and your business, if you are unsure of the costs and benefits of starting a blog, then keep reading!

Most importantly (and Nik, our General Manager and SEO expert is going to hate me for this), I have to say that it is the relevance of the content of your website that leads to more traffic and visitiors. Creating a blog, and keeping it current and active, accomplishes these tasks and much more for your business.

First stop, let’s learn in a nutshell how search engines work. (more…)

It seems Google has never faced such fierce competition before. CUIL, a brand new Search Engine application launched yesterday, comes with everything Google’s search engine has, plus a new, sleek, ‘web 2.0’ look. Just yesterday, on its launch day it indexed approximately 121,617,892,992 web sites.

Let’s face it, we all love Google, and Google has done a lot more than just the most efficient, popular search engine out there. Regardless, there seems to be a common trend around the web. We have seen it before between Apple™ and Microsoft™, between Facebook™ and MySpace™.

Not to mention the huge development of open source software, frameworks, libraries and even operating systems that become more and more stable every day.

“Either invent something new, or build on something that already exists” —easier said than done.

Check out this new search engine at: cuil.com

Now, having said that, CUIL’s features are not the most appropiate for every search. Category listings can be extremely useful, but sometimes we want to see the results of a search as quickly as possible. In other words, we can safely say that CUIL will never be ‘better’ than Google, but at least, CUIL might become more appropiate in some circumstances.

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In my humble opinion, this is one of the most useful javascript snippets web developers will eventually have to use and reuse. Specially knowing that absolute positioned elements ‘don’t have a heigtht’, and thus they don’t expand their containers or correctly position subsequent elements bellow them. In my original article Expanding Divs (The Basics). I explain the general logic of the code that forms the function that follows. Based on that, I figured there has to be faster way to accomplish this. So I converted the code in the previous article into a set of functions. (more…)

After reading some of the good literature about JavaScript, I am definitively certain that I still have a lot to learn on the subject. However, I am sure peers, beginner programmers, and colleagues alike would appreciate having this article and expand on it (no pun intended). (more…)