Just Search Labs Just Search Research and Development

There are many reasons why a switch in web host might be necessary at some stage during a website’s life.   Maybe your site has grown since you applied SEO techniques to it and the allotted bandwidth is no longer enough. Perhaps you want to use new software which is not supported by your current host. If you have just started your online presence with a free website it might be that you want to run on an independent domain. Whatever the reason, at some stage you will need to move to a different host. How do you go about it? Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Pumpkin Longshanks
Programmer, Research and Development

No Wordpress is not a CMS. It was never intended to be either. It is the best free blogging platform out there but that’s where it stops.

Now there is no reason why we shouldn’t do it if want to. The web is a nice place to play around and if you feel confident with wordpress you can always give it a go.

The page / boxes architecture

Cool name isn’t it? The difficult thing with every CMS is to keep the user away from any code. In wordpress’s editor you can write everything in the html part and us divs and other html tags. But think from a client point of view. They don’t know about html or if they think they do you better not look at their code… Read the rest of this entry »

Benoit Gilloz
Programmer, Research and Development

A neat little addition that allows users to filter Google image searches by colour has been announced on the Google Operating System Blog.

To enable this you just need to add the parameter imgcolor to the URL and give it a colour as an option. There are currently 12 colours available, which are black, blue, brown, grey, green, orange, pink, purple, red, teal, white and yellow. So to search for red things just put this at the end of your Google image search URL.
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Philip Norton
Lead Developer, Research and Development

One of the ways to improve your rankings is to simply have more content. The more you write, the greater the chance of it being picked out for long-tail searches. PDF documents are particularly useful in this respect because they are something that many businesses already have in the form of specifications, newsletters, white papers and brouchers. Any source of information can be used, provided it does not create duplicate content, to add to the amount of content a website. In addition they look great and can be locked.  While PDF documents do not tend to rank as well as HTML pages there are some ways in which you can optimize them to rank better. Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Pumpkin Longshanks
Programmer, Research and Development