Rodes Web Design & Development

With Windows 7 now available worldwide, I wanted to share some resources available to help IT Pros become more proficient with Windows 7 and consumers more savvy about new support resources for Windows 7.

What is PageRank?
PageRank™ is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the [...]

Do you think the rules don’t apply to you? Are you willing to do whatever you want in order to get high rankings in the search engines…temporarily? Willing to lose all your future Search engine indexing or traffic for the smallest chance that the search engines don’t figure out your tricks? If so, I have [...]

A recent project required that I create a page footer which would stick to the bottom of the browser window if the content didn’t fill the window, but behave normally (i.e. be pushed down by the content) when the content was tall enough.
This footer behaviour is not a new idea; I’ve seen it on a few sites [...]

Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
“We will start to show you the next version of the search,” Chairman Bill Gates said in comments to reporters in Japan on [...]

When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only [...]

In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input.
Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that would (and did) revolutionize the [...]