Updated Publishing PGP keys on the Web.
It's time to stop whinging about search engines in random web forums, and start writing real articles, so there's a new section at Websnob: Search Engine Snob. Enjoy.
Information about the ROBOTS meta tag is scattered all over the net, so I decided to gather it into one page.
I'm getting tired of people asking me about stealth redirection when I don't know a good reference on the subject, so Websnob now has a page about stealth redirection. Also added a page about scrollbar properties to the Crusading Style Sheets section.
I'm ashamed of myself for this, but Websnob has long had a serious usability problem: there's no "above the fold" navigation aids. That means users who land "inside" Websnob (via a search engine or other link) don't have an easy way to access the rest of the site. This isn't good for them or me.
After thinking long (in fact, too long) and hard (but not hard enough) about the best organizational scheme for Websnob, I'm forced to admit that the site is basically organizing itself hierarchically. That said, I've decided Jakob Nielsen's got the right idea, and added "breadcrumb" navigation bars to the top of each Websnob page. There. Now I feel better.
Minor revisions to the style sheet. Blame IE6 for that.
Minor revision to Detailing Your Domain, and a major revision of the WWW newsgroups list.
Stopped playing with infrastructural pages long enough to add Detailing Your Domain.
Minor updating to How to Publish PGP Keys on the WWW (added "A Final Disclaimer"). Added Web Server Statistics for Websnob.
Added Websnob Search. (Until now, Websnob had been sharing a search page with the rest of Bauser.com.
Move Websnob to its new home at Bauser.com. Yeah, it's a vanity domain, but at least the HTML validates.
Created a new style sheet for Websnob, rewrote the index page, and gave everything else a quick updating.
Added John Van Essen's FingerGate to Websnob's How To Finger Through a Web Page and made a couple of small changes that John suggested. Also added PICS ratings for that section.
Added an entry for The Web Developer's Toolbox finger script to How To Finger Through a Web Page and tweaked some other entries.
Put up an expanded and revised version of How To Finger Through a Web Page as Websnob moved to a new server.
Added How To Publish PGP Keys On The World Wide Web.
Fine-tuned How To Finger Through A Web Page, fixing some typos, fleshing out some descriptions, clarifying some instructions about Fixed URLs, and adding a better-developed introduction.
You know, now that this page is popular, I feel enormous pressure to keep perfecting it. I can't imagine what the owners of jumbo-cool sites feel.
Some additions to How to Finger Through A Web Page, including three new entries, a jump list near the top of the page, and a few new hyperlinks to background information.
The `How To Finger Through A Web Page' Page is now officially the most visited page at www.bauser.com, just because I mentioned it once in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. That means it's been visited more often than my personal home page, which is eight months older. Sigh.
I finally wrote an almost real index page for Websnob, and added Some Observations on Web Traffic.
Updated How to Finger Through A Web Page, adding an entry for The MIT Finger Gateway.
My website was getting unmanagable, so it's being fractured into several more focused pages. The first new page is How To Finger Through A Web Page.
Expanded (and hopefully clarified) my Rules for Gratuitous Hyperlinking.
Added Michael's Rules for Gratuitous Hyperlinking.
Fixed a grievous mistake in the Newsgroups Page (for some reason, I'd listed comp.infosystems.authoring.www.images as "comp.infosystems.www.authoring.graphics") and added this page.
Added a quick Newsgroups Page.