MediaWiki can Look Great
Posted: Tue 09/09/2008 by ramiroMediaWiki is the wiki software that drives one of the most popular sites on the Web Wikipedia. I would't say that Wikipedia looks ugly but it feels a bit moldy.
MediWiki also drives the jQuery documentation site which demonstrates that MediaWiki can look great. Before the recent redesign of jQuery.com the designers of the jQuery docs site already managed to create a unique look in contrast to 99.9% of the other MediWiki driven sites. Now they made it a blast, congrats!
Drupal.org Redesign Yahoo Pipe and Widget
Posted: Mon 09/08/2008 by ramiroAccording to Dries' State of Drupal 2008 presentation backed by a survey with 1367 participants the drupal.org redesign is a very important task for improving the user experience of the Drupal project as a whole.
In the current stage of the redesign process feedback from drupal.org users is essential. To participate the GDO Redesign group is a good starting point.
Avoiding Duplicate Title Tags on Pager Pages in Drupal
Posted: Wed 08/13/2008 by ramiroGoogle Webmaster Tools includes a tool called content analysis that you find in the Diagnostics section. The content analysis tool reported a suboptimal number of duplicate title tags and meta descriptions for some Drupal sites that I monitor with these tools.
Getting rid of duplicate title tags and meta descriptions caused by the pager is actually quite simple. When using the Meta Tags module with the setting ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW for Default robots meta tag: you can adjust the robots Meta tag in your theme, so that pages that contain the page parameter in the URL are not indexed using the following code snippet in the head section of your page.tpl.php template file.
The Power behind Google's Search Engine
Posted: Thu 08/07/2008 by ramiroI knew there has to be something very big behind Google's Search Engine. And now it is offically confirmed thanks to Dutch design studio Overburen.
Via Spreeblick
Google's Link Marketing Hypocrisy
Posted: Wed 07/30/2008 by ramiroUsually, I am quite good at ignoring Google AdSense ads when browsing the Web without blocking them. Today I wasn't and noticed an ad for a German link broker. So I bothered to search for links to find the results shown on the following screenshot.

