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The images used on the web can have various types of files formats, like GIF, PNG or JPEG. The advantages
of every type of image file format are clearly presented in many articles.

Regarding GIF images limitations, it is well known the superiority of PNG images over GIFs. Due to the fact that PNG image file format can be employed in animated images creation, the GIF animated images could stop to exist on web pages, even web browsers still have rendering support for them.

In a previous article there are shown the advantages of PNG images in comparison to GIFs, like full alpha channel, support for millions of colors, lossless compression capabilities and more. Mozilla Firefox browser can render PNG animations, which are created in the new APNG (animated PNG) format. This type of format represent an extension to PNG, providing the possibility of animated images creation in PNG. As a consequence, the PNG does not replace only the static GIF images, but the animated ones too, which could mean the end of animated GIFs decade.

In a basic manner, the animated PNG images can be created with the help of on line scripts or by using Firefox add-on APNG Edit. This add-on is practically an editor for APNG images and it works by assembling individual images into a given animation. Also, with the help of scripts (Javascript), you can manage the building of an animation with custom elements or directives.

Another tool to create animated PNG images is APNG Assembler, an online application that allows you to make animations in PNG file format by using your web browser. With the help of an image editor or processing software, you must prepare the static PNG or individual animation frames, then with an archiving utility, all images having identical meta-data must be packed in a single zip archive. The creation of your animation is a step away from the touch of a button.

This line of evolution in quality and advantages of animated PNG images will definitely determine the implementation of APNG specific rendering support in case of many other popular web browsers.

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Advertising is the most profitable way to make cash with the help of the Internet. It’s been approached from every angle and direction, it’s been considered the saving of many companies that would otherwise collapse financially. Come to think about the efforts going into the industry, advertising is no longer a need for
business, it’s also a trend, and like any trend, it is constantly being considered for “fashion” changes. ASCII
were considered at one time, then came color on the ads, the text being written as interestingly as possible, then came the floating ads (which I hate with all my heart), video ads are also present and now the latest buzz is about audio.

Could you imagine having to be forced into listening one ad per x minutes you spend on a site? It’s madness, sheer madness. A radio without the shows. An annoying free consultant that you just cannot fire. Of course, you could just close the speakers or lower the overall volume, but to go through all that trouble? You might be listening to radio on the Internet and right when the news you have been waiting for an update all day comes, you get to hear something like “Are you tired? Really tired? You need to spice up your life! Get your hands on the latest [insert anything you would never want to know anything about here]!”

Claiming to be a huge demand for this type of ads, Pay-Per-Play says that it has a huge 6 million websites using its advertising. And furthermore, it’s being requested by the big names all over the world, according to them. I sincerely doubt that once the nouveau factor is out, the service will keep running. Today’s man’s patience is growing to be very thin and this might be the last straw to tip it over. Oh, and let’s not forget that it pays very poorly, according to Jeremy Schoemaker: less than 1 cent per delivery to a person. You’d need what, a hundred or more to get a buck? Is giving your visitors up worth this?

The most challenging stage in websites maintenance and promotion is represented by the application of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques with the purpose to increase the websites visibility for search engine robots.

Depending on the website structure and content type, the selection of SEO algorithms is different from a situation to another. All SEO techniques have common principles, but their implementation will follow specific guidelines, based on a given website particularities.

In case of websites (usually blogs) based on WordPress content management system, there are a few SEO tips that will increase the traffic not only for the homepage, but even for certain posts or pages. The most important action to optimize your WordPress blog is to modify the permalinks structure. You can change the default permalinks structure by going to your WordPress administration panel, choosing Options, then Permalinks.

At this point, you can choose a predefined structure or to specify a custom one. The most recommended is the link structure that contains in its name keywords related to the content and also present in the Keywords meta tag. As a consequence, you could choose the next option for your permalinks structure, which will contain the category name and respectively the post name:

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/index.php/%category%/%postname%/

In case you change the permalinks structure and you want to maintain the traffic coming from the old links, the plugin called “Permalinks Moved Permanently” will redirect the visitors to the new location of your posts. The articles titles must be maintained short and should also be directly related to the post content. It is also recommended to use H1 or H2 tags for your titles, but it seems that the WordPress CMS do this article title formatting automatically.

Another important step in your WordPress SEO is represented by the optimization of HTML meta-tags title, description, keywords for the individual webpages. In this sense the plugin “All in One SEO Pack” will automatically generate optimized meta-tags and will adjust the webpage titles structure. A sitemap is also another useful tool in making your website more visible to search engines. For example, a Google compliant XML sitemap could be generated using “Google XML Sitemaps” plugin.

This article represent only a short introduction to the search engine optimization methods specific yo WordPress content management system. These tips will ensure the minimal search engine visibility for your blog. For an advanced SEO, you must know that, beside the quality of your content, there are many other influencing factors of websites interactions with search engines, like one way links, the number of internal links, type of content and more. By analyzing these factors, you will be able to decide the adjustments needed to gain the desired level of website transparency for search engines.

Source : Softpedia

Until now, only a few thousand videos from YouTube were accessible on the mobile platform out of the tens of millions available. Well, not any longer, as today the video sharing site has expanded its mobile service to include its entire collection. And that’s not all! Most of the features that have made its website so well received have been implemented, such as the rating of videos and sharing them with friends.

A good decision on the management end, as the 100 million users that have just been granted access to the
videos represent a good enough market for the advertisement placing that Google bought YouTube for in the first place. The more videos there are, the more people will be inclined to surf the site and will be exposed to the publicity. Easy as that, wouldn’t you agree? The only thing you must have, in order to access the video library, is a 3G operator and, also, the phone should have streaming capability.

Oh, don’t start thinking that you’ll be bombarded with advertising from day one. No, they’re throwing in the bait and wait for as many as possible to swallow the hook and become accustomed to watching videos on their phones. Then, and only then, ads will be presented to the users and the reeling will start.

On a different matter, YouTube also announced that it was trying to make it easier for its users to upload videos directly from their phones and that they’d developed an application that could be installed on some of the models on the market. At the moment only a few, from Nokia and Sony-Ericsson, and the plan is to monitor the success of the program and, afterwards, if it’ll be worth it, to spread the compatibility to most of the handsets.

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