Tag: webpages
Reflections on how Google rankings shape website content
I have now been running macintoshhowto.com for 10 years. Here is a graph of visitors over the last 10 years: You will notice that there are some turning points on the curve. Most of these changes correspond to Google changing their Page Rank algorithms. For example macintoshhowto.com was slowly and steadily growing in popularity until…
How to test your website for different browsers
There are web applications that will allow you to preview what your website will look like on different browsers. You type in your website (e.g. macintoshhowto.com) and the site shows you what your website will look like in almost any browser you can think of. One such website is http://browsershots.org It’s free to use, but there is…
How to get your website to appear in a google search
Web pages generally  do not automatically appear on search engine results pages. To make your site appear in google and other search engines you need to manually add your site. This is called submitting your site to a search engine. You don’t have to pay to do this – it’s free. Read on to find…
How to write a simple blog
A blog is like an online diary or journal, where you type entries and people can read them. A blog site is designed to be easily updated regularly. There are various ways to set up a blog, here are a few, I have listen them in order of simplicity…
How to upload iweb sites without a .mac account
iweb normally publishes your website to your .mac account on the Apple server, here’s how to upload it manually to your own server.