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Do Your Search Engine Results Show You as the Author?
Google and other search engines are starting to use authorship information with the rel=author attribute to provide more information about the articles that are linked to. These fancier search results can include the author's photo, links to related articles by the same author, and more. Ultimately, results with this extended information are more memorable and more likely to get clicks. Learn how to tell Google who authored your articles.
Read the full article: Tell Google About Your Writing
More About Authorship and Microformats
Do Your Search Engine Results Show You as the Author? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 03:24:38. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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Backups are Critical
Last week was a challenging week for me. Last Sunday, I tried to turn on my computer, and, well, it didn't. I spent most of the morning that I had planned to use to get ahead during the week, trying to troubleshoot what was wrong. I finally gave up and called Apple support and proceeded to go through all those same steps again with Cristophor on the phone. His conclusion? The hard drive was dead. Luckily, I have Apple Care for that computer, so Cristophor set up an appointment with the local Apple store, and I took it in. There the Genius (I forget his name, sorry) hooked up a cable to the computer and after a few minutes confirmed that the hard drive was dead and the optical drive was failing. He took my computer and said they would be replacing the hard drive and optical drive over the next 1–3 days.
I didn't get the computer back until Thursday. Then I started the restore process from my Time Machine backup. Of course, what I didn't notice was that the backup I was using was from my first Time Machine drive, not my current one. When the machine restarted, it was restored back to July 2011. Oops! So Thursday night I started the restore process again, this time using the right backup!
Friday morning I got up and saw that there was an update to Lion, 10.7.3, so I ran that and then started doing some work, writing some articles, and so on. I noticed that there were some glitches, but nothing too bad, and I thought they would be cured by a restart. So when I was done working I shut down for the day, as usual.
Saturday I turned on the computer to check some mail, and noticed the glitches were worse. In fact, I couldn't open some of my critical programs like Solitaire :-) and more importantly, no web browsers would open, nor would Finder. After some research using my iPad I discovered that the update to Lion 10.7.3 was screwing up a lot of systems. It sounds like my situation was a bit more serious than most, because I couldn't even get Finder to work. And ultimately, I had to restore from my Time Machine backup a third time. This time I restored to right before I updated to 10.7.3.
Backups Saved Me
I was saved both by Time Machine, which was able to restore my system back to Friday morning, but also by my secondary backups of data on Dropbox. Time Machine brought my computer back to the living, and Dropbox made sure that all the work I'd done on Friday was not lost.
If you don't have both your personal machine and your website backed up on a regular basis, you will eventually live to regret that. I know. This week was challenging, as I had to do work on my iPad or not at all, but if I hadn't had backups I would have been starting from scratch. Before I had regular backups I once deleted my entire home directory on my web server. I much prefer this method. Restoring from backups takes time, but it's a lot faster and easier than trying to rebuild a site from memory. Backups are Critical originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 at 16:24:24. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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HTML Design Gallery - Dojo Bread
This site is very tasty looking. As with any food site, the focus needs to be on the food itself, and this site does a great job. I love how the site’s colors mimic the colors of the breads. Note: this site is built in XHTML Transitional, not HTML5.
Have you built an HTML5 site? Or do you know of one that does a great job with HTML5? Submit HTML5 site designs to be featured on this site. HTML Design Gallery - Dojo Bread originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 02:54:02. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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January in Review
In honor of the new year, I focused a lot on new technologies in January. Microdata, microformats, CSS3 and HTML5 all are gaining better and better support among browsers. And the many articles I published this month can help you get started learning these so you're ready when your customers are. Did you miss any of these new articles? Here's a recap:
Previously in January
...January in Review originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 14:16:17. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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It's Not Flashy, But It's Very Useful—The History API
Controlling the browser history is not something that many designers think about. It's boring and behind the scenes and when done right customers won't even know it's there. But when you build a dynamic web application, the History API is incredibly useful. It helps your readers bookmark specific states within an application, not just the front page. It also gives them clues as to where they are in the application. Learn about the HTML5 History API and how it can help your web applications.
Read the full article: What is the History API
Other HTML5 APIs
It's Not Flashy, But It's Very Useful—The History API originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 04:55:24. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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