The Google Robot or Googlebot Needs New Batteries

Google has yet to come out with its own robot but it’s Googlebot is constantly scouring the Internet for relevant content in webpages. The Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

When you sit with a group of search engine optimizers, they’ll be talking about how they try to control the Googlebot to help websites be on top of the Google rankings. But I personally think Google is going to have to change the robot’s batteries. In other words, to tweak it a little bit more rather than to just find relevant keywords.

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When Your Website Structure (Information Architecture) is Flawed?

Part of any website strategy is to plan your web site architecture also known as website information architecture. In short, the information architecture is a blueprint of your information or a website sitemap.

It’s always easy hearing about it and this is deemed one of the easiest because it’s just organization of information in your website itself. However, I have found many who are ignorant of organizing their content in a manner only made sense to them and not the user.

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Out of the Box CSS Layout

A List Apart author Alan Pearce recently shared his development work to solve one of the most common problems in CSS layout. Some of us web standards designers would remember this being called the “holy grail”.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Alan has finally found the grail and it uses little to no hacks whatsoever to successfully achieve equal height column bliss.

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RSS Not End-User Friendly

If you’re a blogger or Internet-savvy user, you might have heard of RSS or better known as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. Site summary does give a clue on its own but coupling that with the word Rich in front, it’s a whole new jargon in the IT world.

So what exactly is Rich Site Summary about? Well, if you ask any technical person or blogger, they might mention more jargon like XML and how it’s a technology used to pull headlines and other content on the Internet.

In layman, RSS is the ability to access or keep track of vast amounts of content easily.

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List of Malaysia E-Commerce Payment Methods

During consultation with clients who aim to setup an online business in particular an online store, one of the most common questions is how do I collect payment and how do customers make payment?

The one and only method recognized by many clients because of its common use is via credit card. They don’t know how it works but they’ve heard from friends or relatives when shopping online, they would pay by just entering their credit card details. Alas online shopping in Malaysia is slightly difficult due to lack of exposure and insecurity of even the shop owner let alone the customer.

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