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Winter Joins Sitening as Software Developer

Collin Winter has joined Sitening as software developer. Winter’s areas of expertise include Python, perl and other, more esoteric programming languages. He is experienced in XML, CSS and XHTML, relational and object-oriented databases, Apache and MySQL. “Collin is a great addition to our development team,” … Read More

How To Make Good Looking Forms Using CSS

Last year, Jon wrote about the benefits of designing for the web using standards based CSS techniques (i.e. no tables). He did a great job at discussing the benefits so there’s no need for me to rehash them here. However, one line in particular caught … Read More

SERP Tracker Adds RSS Feeds

Updated July, 2012 by @RavenJeremy – Raven Tools now offers SERP Tracking with Data from Authority Labs as part of our SEO tools. I’ve removed the links that reference outdated tools in this post.   Tracking search engine results pages (SERPs) just got a little … Read More

Sitening As Seen Through the HTML DOM Visualizer

Boredom and intrigue led me to the Websites as graphs tool. Here’s a graph of the Raven home page. What do the colors mean? blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV tag violet: for … Read More

Getting Real With Databases in PHP

It’s no secret that I don’t like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web apps running on Rails, but the … Read More

Ruby on Rails with OS X Tiger

I’ll admit there are already 12 million documents out there claiming to explain this, but for one reason or another I couldn’t get any of them to work as written. Ruby on Rails is undergoing rapid development, and OS X is not sitting still either. … Read More

The New Face of Online News in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 23, 2006 ” Sitening launched a redesigned NashvillePost.com. The new website is focused on search engine optimization and marketing strategy. NashvillePost.com’s previous site charged a subscription fee to access all articles. The new site allows visitors to purchase individual articles or subscriptions … Read More

The Internet Will End on April 11

At least that’s what Microsoft would have you believe. Tuesday, during a conference call with industry leaders, Microsoft announced its plans to ship an update to Internet Explorer which will change the way the browser handles embedded content — specifically, plugins like Flash, Windows Media, … Read More

Create a Modal Dialog Using CSS and Javascript

Back in my early programming days, before I switched over to web development, I spent most of my time writing software for Windows. I look back on that time with fond memories. 8-bit icons, OLE2, and no silly Start menus. With the recent Web 2.0 … Read More

How to Pick the Best Layout Width for a Website

Every website has a core audience. That audience may consist of a group of users that are all technically savvy, or literally all users who access the Internet at any given time. This discrepancy places a burden on all web designers to create an interactive … Read More