What is Google Image Search?
Google has a dedicated version of its search engine called Image Search which helps find images. Claiming to be the most comprehensive image search facility on the web, it has billions of images from websites already within its index. When searching for images, you can tailor the search for various sizes and choose a specific type of image you’re looking for, such as a photo, clipart or head shot.
When clicking on a image, the image will load as a preview in one frame, whilst showing the website the image is from in a frame below. This gives you the option of visiting the website or enlarging the image to full size. Google Image Search is popular. It actually gets more traffic than Yahoo, Window Live Search and Ask Jeeves.
Why is Google Image Search Important To Me? As mentioned, Google Image Search gets more traffic than supposed major search engines in the UK, typically getting more visits than websites such as Amazon and MySpace (Source: Hitwise). This means Google Image Search is a potential source for traffic to your site, and although perhaps not as targeted as conventional search, implies that people are actively searching for what you offer.
How Google Image Search helps SEO
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Footer problem
I have a footer defined with the following CSS code and in a <div> tag of the proper id. :
Code:
#footer
{
color:#FFFFFF;
position:relative;
bottom: 1%;
left:20%;
right:20%;
}
Now the problem is that the content above sometimes goes longer than a page in length. At which point it hits said footer and they overlap. Anyway to help fix this? Example here: http://haylisten.com/comics/ It hits the picture.
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How To Use As Many Photos As You Like In Your eBay Listing WITHOUT Paying Additional Listing Fees
If you’ve listed products on eBay without a photo and successfully sold them – don’t be fooled into thinking you don’t need a photo. You would almost certainly have got more bidders, and therefore probably a higher selling price, with a photo.
If your eBay listing doesn’t have a photo and your competitor does, you will lose out. If you don’t have a photo, potential buyers will be sceptical or suspicious. They will think that you either don’t really have the item for sale or you have got something to hide, i.e. it’s not in very good condition. Without a photo, your listing will not look professional which will damage your business image.
Your listing MUST have a good quality digital photo of your item. If you are selling new products, the manufacturer or your supplier may have photos that you can use. But you must check that you are allowed to use them. Otherwise you could be prosecuted, or at least have your listing removed. Also, if you use the manufacturer’s photo, all your competitors may be using the same photo, so your listing won’t stand out.
Often, when people are just selling stuff from around the house, they will use any old snapshot of the item and you can see all sorts of domestic mess in the background. This is not good enough if you want to run a successful and profitable business on eBay. A good photo will increase the perceived value of your item and attract higher bids. A poor photo will cheapen your item.
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Help: Float is interfering with alignment properties in IE and FF, but not Sfri or GC
I've recently been coding a website to use as my portfolio/resume when I graduate from university at the end of this year.
Its working perfectly across all the browsers except for a small but important mis-alignment ocurring in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
- I have a navigation div above a header div
- Both are aligned to the center of the page using margin:0 auto auto auto;
- However they are different widths ( navigation div:960px; header div:968px; )
- They are held in a container div
The problem is that a 2px gap ocurs between the divs (vertically).
However this only happens in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Safari and Google Chrome are fine.
I have attempted to fix the problem by placing float:left; in the div attributes. This gets rid of the gap, but makes the navigation div mis-align in all browsers.
Any help or knowledge on this would be greatly appreciated.
- Kelsey-Lee :)
EDIT: I've solved it, simply removed the float whilst checking that everything in my code has a purpose and found that the gap has dissappeared without affecting anything else.
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Google index WTF....
So here is the problem...Google is doing some really odd indexing with my site.
My company did a content rewrite so that we can target some relevant keywords. It took a while for Google to actually index it (according to the cache date) and even took days to update the cache (e.g. last cache date was Jan 23, but it just showed up today).
I check the cache date to see if Google finally got our new content, which it had, but it apparently has skipped over one of my pages. (http://thewebsquad.com/01_about.php). it is not even indexed, but has almost 100 links point to the page. However, (this is where it gets odd) Google indexed the www version of the same page, but there are no links pointing to that page.
Any insights?
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Earn money at home - Affiliate program
Do you want to run your own BBW dating site? We would like to work with you setting up a BBW Dating Site.
We can set it up for you at no cost if you have strong interest in work-at-home business. You can pick the name for the dating site, and own the domain and brand. We take care of all the backend and engineering work.
You don't have to worry that no one exists at your dating site at the beginning. Your site will share millions of quality profiles with other sites we have already set up. Your users can immediately contact hundreds of thousands of other users once they register at your dating site.
You can earn money if you have users registering with or without becoming a payment member.
If you are interested, send me email to get more info. Please get my email address on my profile contact info part.
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Dedicated Hosting Comparison: a Review of 10 Dedicated Hosting Plans
When your site or application grows beyond what can be supported with shared or even VPS hosting, perhaps it’s time to look for a dedicated server. Countless companies provide dedicated hosting, and the features of their offerings can be difficult to untangle. In this week’s article, Khurram guides us through ten different entry-level plans and points out their pros and cons to help you make an informed decision.
2010-01-29T00:37:24+00:00
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Suggest me which is the best E-Learning software?
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Suggest me which is the best online E-learning software right now in the market.
Tell me the links also where I can see the demo and also provide the links to be downloading for free.
waiting you earliest reply.........
http://www.soniktechnologies.in
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which coding to learn
Hi guys. Im new here, so pardon my ignorance :)
My aim with this thread is to learn which skills i need to require in addition to what i already know in order to make a small, but professionally looking article site.
I have two sidebars, a middle "main page", on which i want the articles to be displayed. Is my assumption correct that i need to learn ASP(X?) in order to have the sitebars/header/footer/everything but the main page remain passive while the visitor browses through the articles via the sitebar. Put in other, perhaps more clear, words: I'd like to make it so only the middle div (the one showing the actual article) load as the visitors uses the article links.
Background: I know xhtml and css, can do enough with photoshop to handle the images and graphics.
Is ASP the correct language to learn in order to achieve what is described above?
Are there any specially adapted platforms for showing articles that i can implement on top of my xhtml?
THanks in advance guys :)
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Poll: When is an acceptable time to take a site down for planned maintenance?
Websites can go down at any time, and unplanned outages tend to happen at the worst possible times. But most professional Web teams try to make their planned outages as non-disruptive as possible. In fact, at many of the companies I've built websites for, even updating existing Web pages has to happen at off hours, especially if it's a major change. At one company I worked for, any change to the website that required the server to be stopped and restarted had to happen during our lowest traffic times. That was around 2am where I live. The idea was to minimize the impact. But another company I worked for has no problem taking parts of the website down for maintenance even during business hours. The overtime costs for developers working outside of business hours out-weighed the potential loss of revenue from taking the site down. What do you think? What times of the day is it okay to take a website or part of a website down for maintenance? If it depends, please explain in the comments.
Poll: When is an acceptable time to take a site down for planned maintenance? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 06:18:16.
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A GIF Animator, What Do You Use?
Admit it -- you do it too! Sometimes you just need to make an animated GIF. The question is: what do you use?
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Poll: Point-and-Shooter Vs. SLR
Do you use a 'point-and-shooter' (compact) camera or a SLR?
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Development Processes and Which Language?
"I'm in the process of designing a complete front end sales order to shipment solution for our business that will take the form of a web app."
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The possiblity of bad code
Hi All,
I have a website up that is an ecommerce site. The programmer I used to create the site was a great coder but not the best designer. I am now working with a web designer who is adding a fresh new design to the site but I'm not convinced of his coding abilities as there have been more than several mistakes (quite a lot actually) made that I have caught in my testing.
I am not skilled in coding whatsoever and unfortunately, I don't even have a basic understanding of it so please excuse the potential stupidity of the following query. My question is this.......If everything tests okay on the test site and all the functions are working properly, does that mean that the code is good and solid OR is there such a thing as coding in a way that it holds together only temporarily? I don't really understand the concept of why coding fails in the first place. Basically I'm wanting to know the answer to this question so that I can either relax when it's finally uploaded to my site (or not relax depending on the feedback I get here).
We're getting close to completion and I'm starting to freak about the upload. I'm petrified that there might be a potential of it messing up my site in any way :eek2:.
Thanks so much in advance.
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Help about the news.
Hello,
Can any buddy tell me,
What requirements do I have to meet in order to be included in Google News?
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The Six Degrees of Internet Marketing
The theory behind the Six Degrees of Separation is that all people on earth can be connected together in as little as six steps.
The concept was made fun in the 1990’s, with the creation of The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (oracleofbacon.org) – which is a website that documents how nearly all actors in Hollywood can be connected to Kevin Bacon through no more than six people. I played with the site earlier today and the Hollywood actors and actresses I tested all connected to Kevin Bacon in only two steps… That was interesting. Even Lucille Ball connected to Kevin Bacon in only two steps.
Now, I know what you might be thinking at this juncture… That sounds fun and interesting, but what does that have to do with Internet Marketing?
Great question.
Undertakers and Wedding Planners know something that most people do not realize. With a few exceptions like Michael Jackson and Billy Mayes, most people will only have up to 300 people attend their wake or wedding. As a result, the average undertaker and wedding planner will only bring 300 chairs to the festivities.
That’s neat… But what does this have to do with Internet Marketing?
Great question.
If you really have 300 friends and you can tell them about your business, and your 300 friends share your business message with their 300 friends, then in very short order, you will have communicated your business’ sales message to 90,000 people!
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1 Page, too much JQuery
Hello Everyone,
I'm so close and yet so far, I could really do with your help on this one! I have no knowledge of javascript and it's causing me a problem.
I want to combine 2 different stock javascript effects.
The first is the Horizontal Accordion
http://designreviver.com/tutorials/j...tal-accordion/
and the second is a coda slider
http://cssglobe.com/lab/easyslider1.7/01.html
But when I put both on the same page there is a small conflict. Here is the site I'm working on:
http://wibblywobblywebsite.com/help/
If you flip to the "BLOG" tab, you can see there is a "more" button. That's supposed to operate the coda slider within the blog tab. The idea here is that I can have many pages of text in just one tab, by clicking more. The problem is, just rolling over the "more" button activates the OTHER javascript effect and the accordion tab flips to the next one. Individually I have both these effects working, but putting them on the same page has broken them.
How do I separate the "more" button from activating the accordion swipe to the next tab?
I think this could be a really good design if I get it working so many thanks for any help!
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noob to web design, programming Q's
I am new to all of this but i am persuing the idea of designing sites freelance for other people/businesses, i am getting very good at html/css, and have only a basic understanding of 1 programming lang(pytohn).
i am about to learn php. but i need to know if theres a way i can develope locally on my pc? i am not going to be hosting these sites. i use windows. can i install a server and database on my pc just for learning php, and developing web sites??
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Wordpress and PHP Code in My Posts
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Overflow code
I'm designing a little update square that will scroll independent of the main site, but is there a way to make the scrollbar transparent? Or...something?
take a look, it looks funky
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