The ethos of RitaNoTiara is “Dare to be Different – Wear to be Seen” –  these are funky quirky clothes for those of you who like to stand out from the crowd, look original and feel gorgeous … Wear one piece to make a statement and a few to make a bigger statement!

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Alltop is often described as the Internet magzine rack and I can see why, Alltop lists latest posts from forums all over the Internet. Posts are group by subject and of course there is a search facility.

Whether you’re researching a particular subject or just like reading Alltop is a great place to find forum posts on any subject.

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Happy days when they were. Once upon a time in the world wide webs innocent youth search engines read a website keyword tags and trusted these to truthfully describe what the site was about. Unscrupulous designers very quickly realised that this was a good way to trick search engines into improving their ranking.

Keyword tags have been so used an abused over the years that they are now al but completely ignored by most search engines and definitely by Google.

Here’s what Google’s Matt Cutts has to say on the subject.

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The page images resize with the browser window width and at widths below 600px the menu moves from a sidebar to the top of the screen with a skip link to the main content.

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Westray’s Living Heritage is a website project which puts Westray Heritage Trust at the heart of island life. It will leave a lasting legacy for future generations of islanders and it will provide a snapshot of life in Westray during the early 21st century.

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Well of course everyone wants that, or at least thinks they want that. I say “thinks they want that” because the request is way too broad…

• Which Google page?
• For what search term?
• What are search terms anyway…?

I usually try to explain how Google works and discuss what they probably really need/want for their specific website. I’ll probably point them at my previous articles on Google too (listed at the end of this one).

Recently I was looking at Google’s webmaster tools and came across some training pages and videos that the Google engineers have put together and thought that some of them might be worth sharing.

This first one covers how Google works. It’s non technical overview of what happens when a user searches Google and provides a valuable insight that will help you to understand what you need to have on your website to help it to perform well on Google.

I hope that you have found this video useful and enlightening.

You might want to read these other posts of mine about Google -

50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Website – Review

Social Networking for Websites (Search Engine Optimisation)

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It worked fine but the battery life was pants and although I was generally happy with it it didn’t blow my socks off.

Perhaps my family could tell as my son bought me a proper Kindle for Christmas last year.

I really really liked the Kindle and bought many books for it both through Amazon and other website, mainly Smashing Magazine and Sitepoint (these are primarily design websites).

I really liked the ease of use and felt that this was a device made to do job and do that job well.

So, why My Non  Kindle – Kindle 2?

Well I really do like y Kindle but as I said in my last article I tend to read books with pictures (stop sniggering!), and the Kindle is monochrome. I could live with this most of the time but on occasions the grey scale images were just unreadable.

Enter the Google Nexus 7, 7″ Android table. I know so was the last one, but this has a significantly higher resolution screen at  1200 x 800 pixels.

Well, as I’ve said before I’m a techno-geek so I needed one!

It thinner, lighter, has a more powerful processor and is the dogs thingymybobs!

I have Kindle reader installed on it and have copied all of my books over to the Nexus. I have a magazine subscription which arrives automatically on my Nexus (nothing new there I know, but I just thought I’d mention it). And, of course it is all in glorious technicolour…

The Nexus comes with £15 Google Play voucher (well it did when I bought mine) and is very well integrated with Google as one might expect.

It has GPS so works a treat with Google Maps. When I’m on the Westray/Kirkwall ferry I use it to check our progress, sad I know but of you travel this route regularly I’m sure you’ll relate.

Of course as a non dedicated machine it does a lot more than just read books/magazines. I installed Asphalt 7, a car racing game that uses the Nexus’ position/motions sensors to steer and it works well with smooth fast graphic.

I’ve watched a couple of films from Google Play on it as well as a few programs from Netflix.

To be honest it’s never far from me. It was definitely a good buy and I recommend anyone considering a tablet to give it a whirl.

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