Comments on: pet peeves with modern web design: design reboot (Part 4) http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/ A geek chronicle Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:15:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Balaji http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Balaji Sun, 25 May 2008 04:11:26 +0000 http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#comment-315 Hi there, Thanks for stopping by. Re: more info about web designing, I'm not much of an expert but here a few resources I found useful: <strong>Books</strong>: 1. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321305256" rel="nofollow">Stylin' with CSS</a> 2. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321346939" rel="nofollow">Bulletproof Web Design</a> <strong>Tutorials</strong> - <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/" rel="nofollow">W3 Schools</a> <strong>Inspiration</strong> - <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/" rel="nofollow">A List Apart</a> Hi there,

Thanks for stopping by. Re: more info about web designing, I’m not much of an expert but here a few resources I found useful:

Books:
1. Stylin’ with CSS
2. Bulletproof Web Design

Tutorials – W3 Schools

Inspiration – A List Apart

]]> By: fininfocom http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-314 fininfocom Fri, 23 May 2008 10:04:39 +0000 http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#comment-314 good information but i want some more information about web designing good information but i want some more information about web designing

]]> By: Balaji http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Balaji Thu, 22 May 2008 04:33:30 +0000 http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#comment-313 antrix: Yes, as I found out to my misfortune yesterday, Atom <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/04/07/dive.html" rel="nofollow">does support</a> the XML:base specification :( Having said that, I just looked at the Wordpress core file for an atom feed (wp-includes\feed-atom.php) and this is what I see <code>xml:base="<?php bloginfo_rss('home') ?>/wp-atom.php"</code> IIRC, I did try hacking in a 2nd XML:base entity - but what I found is that most feed-readers would ignore this. I have no idea if it is safe to modify the existing entry, since the file path suggests that is a WP Core file. And of course, modifying this file would bring me back to my original problem of not being able to upgrade easily since I have hacked a core file. Re: tin-foil scenario - yes that is <a href="http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#identifier_2_211" rel="nofollow">the depressing alternative</a> I did not want to contemplate :( antrix: Yes, as I found out to my misfortune yesterday, Atom does support the XML:base specification :(

Having said that, I just looked at the Wordpress core file for an atom feed (wp-includes\feed-atom.php) and this is what I see

xml:base="< ?php bloginfo_rss('home') ?>/wp-atom.php"

IIRC, I did try hacking in a 2nd XML:base entity – but what I found is that most feed-readers would ignore this. I have no idea if it is safe to modify the existing entry, since the file path suggests that is a WP Core file.

And of course, modifying this file would bring me back to my original problem of not being able to upgrade easily since I have hacked a core file.

Re: tin-foil scenario – yes that is the depressing alternative I did not want to contemplate :(

]]> By: antrix http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-312 antrix Thu, 22 May 2008 03:05:59 +0000 http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#comment-312 Regarding base href in feeds, stop fighting RSS and switch to Atom. Regarding Million Blog List, allow me to do some tin-foil hat thinking. Perhaps the no-follow on their end is very much intentional? They get millions of people to place <strong>three</strong> links to their site while in return they post one link - with no-follow - back to the blog. It clearly doesn't count as a link-farm, right? So sweet page-rank at the expense of a gullible million folks :-) Regarding base href in feeds, stop fighting RSS and switch to Atom.

Regarding Million Blog List, allow me to do some tin-foil hat thinking. Perhaps the no-follow on their end is very much intentional? They get millions of people to place three links to their site while in return they post one link – with no-follow – back to the blog. It clearly doesn’t count as a link-farm, right? So sweet page-rank at the expense of a gullible million folks :-)

]]> By: Balaji http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Balaji Thu, 22 May 2008 02:43:20 +0000 http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#comment-311 Divya - Yup, just <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the_individual_search_engines" rel="nofollow">check out</a> the varying (and conflicting) treatment of no-follow across the diff. search engines (and within google itself!) As far as I can tell, no-follow is doing nothing to stop comment link-spam, so why bother? Divya – Yup, just check out the varying (and conflicting) treatment of no-follow across the diff. search engines (and within google itself!)

As far as I can tell, no-follow is doing nothing to stop comment link-spam, so why bother?

]]> By: Divya http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Divya Wed, 21 May 2008 12:49:00 +0000 http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/05/21/pet-peeves-with-modern-web-design-design-reboot-part-4/#comment-310 Ha ha. U know what I heard in SEO forums? That no-follow does not make an difference to whether the linked site is tracked or not. I think some search engines ignore the no-follow links. Ha ha. U know what I heard in SEO forums? That no-follow does not make an difference to whether the linked site is tracked or not. I think some search engines ignore the no-follow links.

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