1. Show Desktop
If you have lots of windows open on your computer and you want quick access to your desktop—or a super-quick way to hide your work—hit the following keys.

PC: Window key (see right) + D
Mac: F11

2. Add a Bookmark
Revisit your favorite websites with easy access by bookmarking the page with the following quick trick.

PC: Ctrl + D
Mac: Apple key (see right) + D

3. Find Files or Folders
A quick local system search window helps find your files fast. Also, remember the wildcard *to help find specific files Ex: project*.jpg will find any Jpeg files that that begin with project and end with .jpg extension. (project_this.jpg, projectthat.jpg, project1.jpg, etc.)

PC: Window key + F
Mac: Apple key (see right) + F

4. Change Zoom Level
Whether you’re working on the Web or in a word processing program, zoom in or out with this command. Works in a lot of programs. Try it out.

PC: Ctrl + scroll mouse wheel

Mac: Apple key + plus sign; Apple key + minus sign

5. Take a Screen Shot
Capture an image of your whole screen.

PC: Print Screen (then paste [Ctrl + V] into a Word document)
Mac: Apple key + Shift + 3

6. Take a Screen Shot of selected Window/Application
Capture an image of the selected application window. Nice and clean. No background clutter.

PC: Ctrl + Alt +Print Screen (prt sc)
Mac: Apple key + Shift + 4

7. Select the Address Bar
When you want to quickly type a new URL into your browser, the shortcut below will easily select the address bar for you, so you can start typing without moving your mouse.

PC: Ctrl + L, or F6
Mac: Apple key + L

8. Add “http://www” to Your Browser’s Address Bar
The quickest route to your online destination? Just type in the name of the webpage you’d like to go to (for example, type “Google”), then press the following keys to add the “http://www.” to the beginning and “.com” to the end.

PC: Ctrl + Enter
Mac: Apple key + Enter

9. Go to a Previous Location in Browser
Quickly go back to the webpage you were looking at before your current one. Or, continue to go back through browser window history.

PC: Alt + ?
Mac: Apple key + [

10. Refresh a Webpage 
Whether you’re waiting for a new email to arrive or the latest news story to pop up, easily refresh your screen using the keys below.

PC: F5, or Ctrl + R
Mac: Apple key + R

This assumes you have the English version of your site in the root level, and other languages in sub-folders; /fr, /de, /dk, etc.

ASP Redirect:
<%

%>

PHP Redirect:

$lang = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
if (substr($lang, 0, 2) == 'de')
{
header("Location: /de");
}
elseif (substr($lang, 0, 2) == 'fr')
{
header("Location: /fr");
} else {
// echo $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
// stay on this page

}
?>


Tip: when setting up language sub-folders, it’s good practice to use their 2-letter language code. This should make it easier for search engines to understand.
Here’s a good list for the language codes:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

If anybody cares to link back to this page, please do so.
I’ll do a write up after this test concludes. – See Edit

Use this code:

http://vinces.net/2011/05/best-webmaster-in-the-universe/


Best Webmaster in the Universe


Thanks, and let’s see how long it takes.

Edit – I was barely finished posting this before it took the #1 spot. I think I owe this credit to Google. Thanks Google.

#1 position in about 10 minutes.. Maybe less?

Inbound Marketing Certificate

I’ll on this more post on this exam soon. I don’t agree with some of the questions/answers, so maybe some discussion is needed.

more to come…

Here’s a bit of regex I use quite a bit in Dreamweaver for Find/Replace.

The Dreamweaver wildcard:
([^<]*)

Used in this example below to rename links in a page with a .php extension.

Dreamweaver Wildcard Search & Replace

Using regular expressions, use “([^<]*)”  in place of the content you want to find/replace.

Add $1 in the in the Replace box where you want to add your substitution.

([^<]*) is stored (use $1 to retreive in replace)
[^"]* is unstored

You can also do Find/Replace to recall multiple variables at once, like this:

If you want to use multiple wildcards:
([^<]*) ([^<]*) ([^<]*)
Use:
$1 $2 $3

1. Rebuild Directories & files
2. Add Meta data for languages
3. redirect existing/indexed pages to new address
4. Check server headers for proper response

1. Rebuild Directories

The pages were in a folder /German or /French. I wasn’t Google was picking these up as separate language versions of the main site, so I wanted to see if a rename to /de and /fr would help.

2. Meta data for languages

When I took over the site a month or so ago, there was no tagging to tell the spiders or bots that this was a German or French language site.

I added lang=”de” to the German html tag like so:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de" dir="ltr">

I also added HREFLANG tags to point to alternate versions of the site.

<LINK REL=Alternate HREF="/fr/index.htm" HREFLANG="fr" TITLE="Française" />
<LINK REL=Alternate HREF="/de/index.htm" HREFLANG="de" TITLE="Deutsch" />

3.  Redirect existing/indexed pages to new address

You can do a proper 301 redirect using a .htaccess file.

I added the following:

Redirect 301 /German/index.htm http://www.domainxyz.com/de/index.htm
Redirect 301 /German/thispage.htm http://www.domainxyz.com/ockquote>de/thispage.htm
Redirect 301 /German/thatpage.htm http://www.domainxyz.com/de/thatpage.htm
etc...

4. Check your Header response

Use the Check Server Headers Tool: http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers

Results:

#1 Server Response: http://www.domainxyz.com/French/index.htm
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:08:32 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.41
Location: http://www.domainxyz.com/fr/index.htm
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Redirect Target: http://www.domainxyz.com/fr/index.htm

#2 Server Response: http://www.domainxyz.com/fr/index.htm
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:08:32 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.41
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:54:38 GMT
ETag: "9809a32d-1cff-4c93b96e"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 7423
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Hopefully I’ll come back in a few weeks with some good news on better traffic for these pages.

Screenshot: (Click to view LIVE counter)

http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

Stay tuned for plenty of WordPress 3 articles and tutorials around the web. There’s a lot of power in this latest release. Users familiar with WPMU will be more familiar with it’s abilities.

I’m about to date to WP3 right after this post.

See you on the other side.

Make letters. Have fun.

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/

Here a video:

Here are some good resources:

• HTML5 Security Cheatsheet
• HTML5 Security Facts Developers Should Keep in Mind
• HTML5 Sandbox: What’s next in HTML, episode 2: who’s been peeing in my sandbox?
• The HTML5 Spec: http://whatwg.org/html5

Want some other background on HTML5?

Here’s a video from Google (a bit old, but still worth the watch)

• Web vector graphics with the Canvas tag and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• The Geolocation API
• HTML 5 Video
• The HTML 5 Database and Application Cache
• Web workers