ll webmasters show interest in the ranking of their sites. It is clear to very few, however, how the ‘Google clock’ functions. Answers to that are usually derived from experience.

According to Google’s information for webmasters, one might have to wait a month for a site to be indexed properly. PageRank (which directly affects traffic and search results) is updated/re-shuffled every 3-4 months according to a rumour at the SEO newsgroups. The rumour also says that the next PR update is in the beginning of April 2005.

A re-direct is said to be the safe solution to preservation of PageRank when moving between domains. Nonetheless, this may not work perfectly, not immediately anyway.

Google Suggest appears to have a long update cycle; Google Images likewise. I estimate it to be about 3-6 months.

CNET expose Intel’s comeback to the Mac mini. These are both inexpensive boxes which can be easily carried from place to place and connected to some peripherals.

here are two Web-based HTML editors which I am aware of. I happen to use neither, but they are worth a mention. One such editor is WysiwygPro and it is provided by my Linux-based Web host. See the example screen-shot below.

WysiwygPro in action (click to enlarge)

 
There is another powerful editor called htmlArea. It can be installed on your site without a cost and it is based on JavaScript and CGI. I installed it yesterday afternoon although I do not intend to use it. In my humble opinion, code that is automatically-produced by GUI tools is still far from being well-understood and well-behaved.
 

htmlArea example (click to enlarge)

or software vendors, support is a key problem and a significant source of expense. For this very reason, only few high-end products are made avaliable to Mac and Linux users. Quite simply, too many Linux distributions require different support and too many unexpected errors can crop up. It turns out that revenue comes before religion (relating to open standards and inter-operability) in today’s industry.