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Any website needs a good url rewriting policy. Simple urls will be easily followed by spiders and many search engines will love your site if internal links are simple and offer some clue about the page. On many sites I use the rewriting only to offer friendly urls, but always keep in mind the optimization for search engines. The following example I use on different sites is simple and works great.

First of all create a .htaccess file with the following content: Continue Reading »

I was very happy to discover MOSH, a great social network made by Nokia for their happy users. I believe the title says all: “MOSH - mobilize and share (by Nokia)”. You can build a community, share applications and files with them, have fun, search for useful stuff or promote your applications. I can’t hide that personally I’m a huge fan of Nokia. I love their phones, their software and now I love their internet presence.

When we are talking about mobile applications we have to admit this area isn’t very popular right now. People use their devices as a ancient phone with music. Probably things will evolve in the feature and maybe this market will grow at least as fast as Continue Reading »

One of the most important aspects when lunching a website is the customers satisfaction. If you want your site to be a success story, you must offer the best navigation experience to your clients. Every client is important and this is the reason you have to make your website compatible with every operating system and every browser. Of course, this is very time consuming and will increase the development cost.

To be sure you will cover more then 99% of your visitors settings, you may test Internet Explorer with Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, Safari with the various OS X versions like Leopard, Tiger, and Panther and also, you may test Firefox and Continue Reading »

Hello everybody! Happy new year!

I finally came back from a long vacation. Having a lot of free time, I made a list with subjects I’ll wrote about pretty soon. I wish you all a great new year and keep making the web world better.

Narcis Radu,
Web Architect & Ideaticus.com columnist