SE Marketing / Photoshop / AJAX - WebReference Update
WebReference Update: August 15, 2005
New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1. FEATURE: Book Excerpt: Search Engine Marketing, Inc. - Part 22.OTHER VOICES:
- Give an Image Vivid Colors with Photoshop
- 10 Tips That Every PHP Developer Should Know: Part 2
- SQL Server 2005 XQuery and XML-DML - Part 2
1. FEATURE: Book Excerpt: Search Engine Marketing, Inc. - Part 2
This installment continues the exploration of search engine marketing. Some
of the topics covered are specialty search engines, a brief history of Web
search, how search marketing is cost effective, and the challenge of search
success.
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2.OTHER VOICES
- Give an Image Vivid Colors with Photoshop
While Photoshop is more often employed to make photos more realistic by reducing noise, sharpening or color correcting, sometimes a dramatic, obviously unrealistic effect is what's required.
Graphics.com, August 15, 2005 - 10 Tips That Every PHP Developer Should Know: Part 2
I wish I had known these 10 simple things the day I started working with PHP. This article is part 2 in this series and is intended for newbies.
PHP Builder, August 12, 2005 - SQL Server 2005 XQuery and XML-DML - Part 2
In the second part of his series on SQL Server 2005's new XML support, Alex Homer looks at extracting data from XML columns, comparing traditional XML data access approaches with XQuery, and combining XQuery and XSL-T.
15 Seconds, August 11, 2005
3. NET NEWS
- IBM Donates Code to Firefox
IBM is donating DHTML accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) standards process. Big Blue is also contributing code that makes it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified as well as navigated by keystrokes rather than mouse clicks. The DHTML accessibility code will make Firefox 1.5 the first browser in the world to add these accessibility functions for visual- and motor-impaired Web surfers. It's a big step forward for rich interactive applications on the Internet.
internetnews.com, August 15, 2005 - The Return of AJAX?
Some relatively new Google applications have prompted renewed interest in a programming technique that is years old. The apps were created using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), which calls from the server only the information you need for the Web browser. Rather than querying the Web server directly every time a request is made from the browser, AJAX sticks a JavaScript element between the two. Given the excitement AJAX has caused so far, you'd think it was the latest whiz-bang technology to emerge from a research laboratory. That's not the case.
internetnews.com, August 12, 2005 - Yahoo! Local Trumps Google in Local Search
Yahoo! rules local search; Google still dominates overall search by a wide margin.
ClickZ, August 12, 2005
That's it for this Monday. I'll have more for you next time.
Lee Underwood
Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com
lunderwood(at)jupitermedia.com
Created: August 15, 2005
URL: http://www.webreference.com/new/050815.html
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