WebPaws.com can redesign your website to run even faster by complying to W3C valid HTML5 and CSS 3 code. HTML5 is the most mobile friendly HTML code yet. We also have hosting plans using top-notch servers which also helps to increase your site’s speed.

Speed = Happier Visitors = More Money

WebPaws has listed many helpful free services below:

• Webpagetest – http://www.webpagetest.org **WebPaws Favorite
• BrowserMob – https://browsermob.com/performance-testing
• Pingdom Tools – http://tools.pingdom.com
• Webslug – http://www.webslug.info
• Site-Perf – http://www.site-perf.com
• LoadImpact – http://www.loadimpact.com
• GTMetrix – http://www.gtmetrix.com

Free Web Page Services to Help Measure your Sites Performance is a post from: WebPaws.com

Working on an older site or with tables and need to remove spaces for image mactch-up or continuous backgrounds?

You will need to update your table elements. Remove cellpadding, cellspacing and border controls and replace them with CSS.

1. make sure each table element has at least style="margin:0; padding:0; border:none;"
2. place similar CSS code (in 1 above) into all images within the table elements
3. Use the global CSS
   table {border-collapse:collapse;}

You may have to tweak vertical-align to top or bottom for image alignments, but the spaces should now be gone.

Have Fun! Visit our HTML Playground (now in HTML5).

W3C Valid removal of spaces between tables, rows and columns is a post from: WebPaws.com

Google has been leading Search Engine Optimization for the past decade and what better place to get advice on Internet Marketing then from Google. Below we have compiled 6 great online assets from Google that will aid your efforts in getting better web page rankings.

Asset 1: Google’s Webmaster Guidelines
Google outlines what it looks for in quality built websites in it its Webmaster Guidelines: “Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site.”
There are:
• Design and Content Guidelines
• Technical Guidelines
• Quality Guidelines

These guidelines are an accumulation of experiences gained by Google in improving their search result algorithm to provide users with the best possible results based on their query.

Asset 2: Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google including how Google views your site, share information about your web pages with Google using Sitemaps, lets you set GeoTargeting for your website so it will show up in the relevant GeoTargeted searches. There are lot’s of other helpful tools in Google Webmaster Tools (such as discovering your link and query traffic), so if you haven’t signed up for Webmaster Tools yet, make it a priority.

Asset 3: Google’s Very Own Guide To SEO
Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide is really SEO 101. It goes through:
• SEO Basics
• Improving Site Structure
• Optimizing Content
• Dealing With Crawlers
• SEO For Mobile Phones
• Promotions and Analysis

This guide uses examples, illustrations and is really a must read for anyone looking to improve their website’s organic ranking in Google.

Asset 4: Matt Cutts’ Blog
Matt Cutts’ Blog on Gadgets, Google, and SEO helps keep you up-to-date on search quality, webspam and SEO from a Google perspective as he is the head of Google’s Webspam team.

Asset 5: Google Adwords Keyword Tool
While the AdWords Keyword Tool is primarily for Google’s Pay Per Click (PPC) platform. We can use the data from it to find Global & Local Monthly Search Data and Traffic Estimator which can be very helpful in deciding what keywords you may wish to target in your SEO Plan.

Asset 6: Google Analytics
Google Analytics is an enterprise-class web analytics solution that provides rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. You need to sign-up and then install Google Analytics into your website

6 valuable Internet Marketing assets provided by Google that can help your website get better search rankings typically leading to more traffic. If you know of or use any other resources from Google or other source please share by leaving a comment below. If you need help integrating any of these SEO techniques into your website, WebPaws.com would be happy to help! Just Send WebPaws a note.

6 Ways Google Improves Internet Marketing for Your Website is a post from: WebPaws.com

Using CSS to format your HTML the way you want it can be tricky. Here we will talk about forcing a child div container to the bottom of the parent div container with illustrations and code.

Here is the task, get the gold rectangle to sit inside the bottom of the parent blue rectangle:

Here is the code for the above rectangles (div elements):

To force the child div to the bottom, we apply the following CSS commands to the child div:

And the result is:

NOTE: Whenever you float an HTML element, you need to clear the float or it will continue to propagate throughout your page. Use:

right after your floating elements.

How to force a child container to the bottom of the parent is a post from: WebPaws.com

If you need to delete rows or reset data in columns older than X days using MySQL, then there is an easy way to do it:

Deleting Rows from your table X days old:
DELETE FROM mytable WHERE recorededDate < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 25 DAY);

Resetting Columns from your table X days old:
UPDATE mytable SET myColumn1 = 0, mycolumn2 = 0 WHERE recorededDate < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 14 DAY);

You could also use:
INTERVAL 1 MONTH
INTERVAL 1 YEAR
INTERVAL 1 MINUTE
INTERVAL 1 WEEK + INTERVAL 1 MONTH - INTERVAL 1 YEAR

NOTE: If an UPDATE statement is designed to update multiple rows, and an error is encountered attempting to update some of those rows, the entire update is canceled and any rows that had been changed are reverted to their original values. Use of the IGNORE keyword will cause the update to continue, simply skipping any rows which presented a problem.

Delete rows or Reset columns older than X days in MySQL is a post from: WebPaws.com

To achieve a top listing with a search engine’s result page for a specific keyword or phrase for a specific web page or website, you need to analyze the structure of that page. The term “content is king” applies to some extent, but how the content is built, the structure of the XHTML is really important in making the content index to the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

Consider the behavior of a person reading a newspaper. Not all pages will be looked at in any detail, scanning headlines, key areas that stand out on a page or keywords of interest is what the reader will hone into. A web page is no different. Not only do you have to have good, original, relevant to the topic (key words), but you must "type-set" that content into a logical format that is easy to understand quickly. Once the reader is "hooked", more details within the article, info should be available either in finer print, links, images, or other relevant media for a web page to pull and keep the reader active.

This is where semantic structure of the page and content is very important. With the advent of mobile technology, page structure is even more important for a wider range of users to access your information. One tool by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has this semantic extraction tool to help you analyze your page’s semantic structure. Firefox has several add-ons that allow you to view a web pages semantic structure, usually based on the XHTML header tags <h1></h1>...<h6></h6>, <p></p> and other structural elements.

SEO best practices start at the foundation of a page and the semantic structure plays an important role along with good content, properly placed keywords, meta data, links, relevant media, XHTML element placement, usage and fine-tuning with their corresponding attributes.

SEO semantics: The foundation for top SERPs is a post from: WebPaws.com

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Instant Web Presence – Limited Time Offer – FREE Website is a post from: WebPaws.com

To properly put the date and time into a MySQL date field, you need to put it into the format of:

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss


Here is some code to do this in classic ASP for input into a MySQL table:

Dim testdate, testmonth, testday, ISODate
testdate = Request.Form("frmField5")
testmonth = Right(Month(testdate),2)
testday = Right(Day(testdate),2)
ISODate = Year(testdate) & "-" & testmonth & "-" & testday & " " & hour(testdate) & ":" & minute(testdate) & ":" & second(testdate)


The ISODate variable is in the correct format to insert in a MySQL UPDATE or INSERT SQL statement. Below is an example SQL string to UPDATE a date field in a MySQL table:

UPDATE myTable SET thisdate = 'ISODate' WHERE myID = 'thisID'


Proper Date Time format for MySQL from classic ASP code is a post from: WebPaws.com

Maintaining databases can be a chore, but knowing the appropriate SQL to do the job can save hours of time. Here is a tidbit regarding changing a select string of text within a specific field of a table in a MySQL database. You can edit 1000s of records with this one query:
UPDATE table SET field = REPLACE(field, 'text to be replaced', 'replacement text');

In this example, the table name is “table”, the field to find the text in is named “field”, the rest should be self explanatory.

MySQL – Replace Select Text within a Database Field is a post from: WebPaws.com

Anchor Text: the meat of links, the nervous system of the Web

Anchor text is the visible text that is anchored to a hyperlink (web link on a web page).  This is important because the internets primary purpose is to display pages and link them to other pages of relevant content to enhance your browsing experience.  There are many kinds of links, but the primary static text/image linked links are the most common and found on most every web page on the internet.  Further examination of links in XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) of a hyperlink code may look like this:

CODE:
<a href="http://web.marketing.webpaws.com/">WebPaws.com&rsquo;s Internet Marketing Services</a>

HOW YOUR BROSWERS DISPLAYS IT:
WebPaws.com’s Internet Marketing Services

We will now review the XHTML code including the meat of the link, the anchor text.  An “a” tag means the anchor or start of a link, where we start the hyperlink code.  The “href” is the hyperlink reference or the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that tell your computer’s browser where to go for the specific information (linked page) and download and pull it up in your browser.  The anchor text is text sandwiched between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag.  In this example, the anchor text is “WebPaws.com’s Internet Marketing Services” and is the text that is associated with the link “http://web.marketing.webpaws.com/”.

This is an important key factor in increasing your search engine rankings because the search engines use this (anchor) text to aid in determining the relevance of the linked page to the anchor text used as incoming keywords.  The use of this particular anchor text will help the domain, web.marketing.webpaws.com, perform better in search engine results for the keyword “WebPaws.com’s Internet Marketing Services” and similar keyword phrases too (e.g., “Internet Marketing”, “Marketing Services”, WebPaws.com, etc.)

Anchor Text: The meat of the link is a post from: WebPaws.com