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Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:09:30 +0100

Wanna know one of those secrets to place you website well in Google?

Well, besides the fact that one should ALWAYS follow the rules of W3C (yes, it does matter!) and should be using DIV-layers when creating websites, there is something else.

For many of you this might not be such a "secret" anymore, however one tends to forget this important rule:

Whatever is on the top left and bottom right of a website matters for Google!

Its kinda like the introduction and last impression of your website. And Google spiders seem to love that!

So, check your pages and make sure the rule is being followed!

Function follows form

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:42:17 +0100

The principle of "Form follows function" is well known to web designers and designers in general. Us designers usually establish the function of the website and thus go ahead with setting up the basic design.

All known, all well proofed.

Then again, the reverse uproach of "Function follows form" has never been tackled.
Interesting, isn't it. And challenging, indeed.

CSS Hacks for Web 2.0 and beyond

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:15:01 +0200

With Web 2.0 also came a variety of CSS-Hacks, noticeable are

Flyout-Menus without use of JavaScript
Round Corners without using grapics
Resize fixes for Internet Explorer and Firefox

Since I use these quite a lot I would like to give you a little
gallery of these effects and they can be found HERE

So go ahead and copy paste the source code for free and try out new things!

Welcome to Googles Online University!

Thu, 10 May 2007 13:36:32 +0200

Anyone being serious about SEO and SEM will have to listen/read/talk about what Google is up to; changes in the "Google Dance" are well known to knock out the Online Businesses being caught unaware of changes.

So, how about Google giving you Premium information about SEO/SEM strategies for free?!

Anyone interested (and that might be quite a number of people ;)
should check out Googles Conversion University for increasing your ROI on your websites and optimizing your pages!

How to get search engines to crawl your Flash site

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:57:07 +0200

Rich-media applications like Adobes/Macromedias FLASH certainly can make you website more exiting and interactive.

But what about the big problem that Search Engine Spiders can't "see" your content?

Well, I got a few tipps how to make sure that a FLASH page also gets indexed....

Travel Meta Searches - Straight Through Processing for Travel 2.0

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:29:19 +0200

Within Travel 2.0 you will find a new approach to Straight-Through Processing on the Internet- the so called Travel Meta Searches. But what does that exactly mean and how does it work? Straight-Trough Processing, as an method for reducing costs and ...

10 important rules for Web Startups

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:41:43 +0100

Even though Web 2.0 brought another wave of Dot.coms and Start-ups: some rules regarding how to do business have not changed.
But what needs to be done? What points are important? How does a Dot.com become sucessfull and not a nose-dive into financial ruin?

"Spring cleaning" at oberhummer.com

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:52:20 +0200

Spring has arrived and thus also a little "spring cleaning" on my website; Old and unnecessary code has been "swept out the door", broken links have been restored and features added on! The most important changes are....

WEB 3.0 - Let's go for it!

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:24:24 +0100

Here we go....with the buzz of Web 2.0 growing quieter and quieter, the next "big thing" is coming up: Web 3.0. Some might say "What? More Marketing Nonsense?". Not really, because this one wlll bring a huge change to the web...

WEB 2.0 - Where does it all lead to?

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:43:57 +0200

So what will the future of the web be? Currently everybody talks about "barrier-free" pages (CSS and Layers), but what is next?
The answer might be: Microformats

1st AJAX Conference in Frankfurt

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:04:08 +0200

I recently attended the "Ajax in Action" Conference, which was the 1st conference in Germany regarding the new (or not so new) "Ajax" programming language...

"Site Scraping" - Stealing the icing from the cake?

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:06:04 +0200

This year has been very exiting so far for Webdevelopers; Finally new approaches to the Web like AJAX and RubyonRails are becoming serious contenders in todays Web environment. "Great", some might think, "now I have all this new tools, but what do I do with them?" Well, there are...

Travel 2.0

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:32:47 +0200

Find my comment on the development of future online travel at Rohit Bhargava´s excellents online marketing website here

The "Battle about Truth" at Wikipedia

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:10:25 +0200

Wikipedia, as one of the spear-heading Web 2.0 Technologies, has reached an immense status within a short time. What used to be pretty much an exclusive right to "Encyclop�dia Britannica", has now become a world-spanning enterprise: Information about Everything and Anything...

More new projects

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:20:15 +0200

Update (Sept 4th): Under www.it2media-forum.com will find my latest creation: A customer service portal which features an extended PHP-Fusion (Open Source CMS) system to inform clients of the Munich-based IT Specialists IT2media. Features are: Dynamic generation of PDF-Files, an extended Backend to administrate different user groups (external clients and associates), a web-based mail- and messaging system and RSS-News feeds.

New Projects Online!

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:59:11 +0200

Currently I am working as a temp for an IT-Company called "IT2Media" and one of my jobs is to develop websites for their newest software. Take a look at funvertising.com to see my newest project for them (Ingame-Advertising) Furthermore you can see the final version of "angela-arbonne.com" ; the website is an OSCommerce page with added style elements.

If you have always wanted to know (more) about Javascript and DOM...

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:34:36 +0100

The DOM (Document Oriented Model) is the core of every website and "manipulating" its elements with Javascript is nothing really new. However, because of the recent Javascript "Renaissance" in AJAX...