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Choose your titles wisely for better URLs

20 June 2009

To optimize your URL keywords, always use a hyphen (-) between words in your weblinks. Google recognizes hyphens as spaces, but not underscores. Slashes (/) are also treated as spaces, but they are not recommended for URLs. However, you can use slashes to separate keywords in your texts.

CSS Browser Compatibility Improvement Tip

6 June 2009

To avoid inconsistencies across different browsers, always use the following CSS code unless you specify a different value for padding and margin. Some browsers do not set these properties to zero by default. html { padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } body { padding: 0px; margin: 0px; }

CSS fail

11 May 2009

never use position:absolute; left:99px; its a handy little quick fix to position an element but it doesn’t ever work.