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Writing Effective Web Page and Post Titles
When you open up a web page with your browser, the first thing you’ll see letting you know you have safely arrived is the title element for that page. This can be seen as the page title located on the top of your browser chrome, on the so-called title bar. This is a true fact regardless of whether you’re a sighted user or not, the title bar is always first. It’s also true if you’re not even human. Say, for instance, you’re a web search indexing spider or robot. Yep, you get the title element first as well. Using Google as an example, the result you will see during a search will be the title element of a specific page followed by the description or a portion of the text containing your search string.
Evil Emails: Protect Yourself
As a contributing photographer at iStockphoto I spend a fair amount of time in the discussion forums over there. It’s a good way to get help and understand the iStockphoto ways and digital photography in general. And like most forums, there is an off-topic section. Earlier this week, in that section, one poor member was warning others, sharing his experience with a virus he got attached to an email. I have written about email security and email management before, on my own blog, so I figured the web in general had been sufficiently warned of such threats. Apparently I was wrong; it’s still a hot and much needed topic.