This summer, I had had the opportunity to intern at none other than the incredible Google, Inc. I was a BOLD intern in their Real Estate and Workplace Services Team, which is in charge of space acquisition and planning, as well as all the other internal Googler services (security, food, etc.). I was able to design and implement an internal tool for Googlers (more information on my main project is available here), but perhaps more importantly, I learned a few valuable lessons throughout my summer. Without further ado, I present to you what I learned at Google.
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The Question
SEO can be confusing for even seasoned web developers, so it’s no surprise that there is a lot of debate on how exactly you should be using that all-important h1 tag within a site you make. What is the best approach that is both practical and semantically sound (and will give you the most Google juice, of course)?
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“My MAMP start page is not showing up anymore!”
The Problem
You’ve installed MAMP to run a local testing server on your development machine. Its all been going swell until all of a sudden, you can no longer access the MAMP start page! The MAMP start page is gone and you have no idea why, so what’s wrong?
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The Problem
I was working on a web page for a client the other day and all of a sudden, a page that had previously always worked across browsers stopped functioning in IE (specifically Internet Explorer 7). In IE, I was greeted with, “Internet Explorer cannot open this site, operation aborted.”
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Ninety percent of the time, when a client wants a website made, they also want something that will be easy to update. After all, no one wants to wait (and pay) for a web developer to come in just to make a simple change to their content. In the past, the answer to this has been to give the client a crash course in HTML and tell them to cut and paste their way to glory, or to provide a Content Management System (CMS) they can use to log in and edit their content. Enter Unit Interactive’s Unify.
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