The design is simple, attractive and useful. As you can see there are animations and transtitions but without the use of Flash, cause of the dynamic content. We use combination of jQuery, JSON and PHP to complete the goal to maintain easy editing content and media. The project is cross browser, yes full support for IE6 .

Peugeot Scooters

Marry Christmas from Wizzard Bulgaria!

It is Christmas time and it is high time we made our Christmas wishes to all our readers, customers and all interested bloggers. We enjoyed making  a special web based Christmas card for our bulgarian readers with our best wishes. Here take a look:

http://wizzard.bg/christmas

May all your days be merry and bright and may your Christmas be white!
Merry Christmas!

You can enjoy visiting our latest work about the Christmas Bargain of Peugeot Bulgaria. It is Christmas branded especially for you and your christmas spirit, here taka e look:

Peugeot Chrismas Bargain

In the inner pages you can also find a nice breadcrumbs to clearify the site structure and database models. Here I attach a screenshot of the integrated features, so you can easily check them out

Web 2.0 Tools and Breadcrumbs

]]> http://wizzard.bg/blog/2009/09/web-2-0-tools-for-our-site/feed/ 1 http://wizzard.bg/blog/2009/09/wizzard-logotyp/ http://wizzard.bg/blog/2009/09/wizzard-logotyp/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:02:14 +0000 Plamen Nikolov http://wizzard.bg/blog/?p=62 Here is the Wizzard logotype variations with different styles and views. These variants are for different purposes and design layouts. You can see which we use for the site

Wizzard Logotype

Normally using <br> or <br /> (HTML and XHTML version) is enough to break the text line in most recent versions of Internet Explorer(IE). The line break problem occurs in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome. Despite their versions, using the normal break line tag seems not to work in these browsers. The solution we were looking for was a CSS property.

So after a few attempts breaking line in a <td> we come out with this solution:

This code make the Mozilla Firefox to break the text in the <td> according to the table cell width and where the <br> or <br /> tag is placed.

Multiple IE Browsers

IE Collection

If you wondered how your website looks in IE6 or even IE5.5…. The IE tester was the only solution. I have had many problems with this software as it shows different results on different machines.

As i was searching for standalone versions of IE, I came across this IE collection. It’s amazing. Downloaded it and it does wonders. It’s got versions right from IE 1 upto IE 8. You can have all the IE’s – standalone installed in one single computer. It gets better – it’s got the Developer Tool embedded on all the IE’s. Amazing!!!

Click here to believe it :

P.S. Make sure you don’t see your favorite site under IE 3

SEO

Design and content guidelines

1. Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
2. Have a site map with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages
3. Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
4. Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
5. Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images.
6. Make sure that your <title> elements and alt attributes are descriptive and accurate.
7. Check for broken links and correct HTML.
8. If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
9. Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Technical guidelines

1. Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.
2. Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.
3. Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it’s current for your site so that you don’t accidentally block the Googlebot crawler.
4. If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.
5. Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines. Also keep in mind that when you block robots it’s a tip for hackers that you have useful info in that session.
6. Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers.

Quality guidelines – basic principles

1. Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”
2. Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”
3. Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
4. Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate the Google Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Quality guidelines – specific guidelines

1. Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
2. Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
3. Don’t send automated queries to Google.
4. Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
5. Don’t create multiple pages, sub domains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
6. Don’t create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
7. Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
8. If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.