Blog entries for October 2006

Until now, my homemade blog template has been free from any code: no JavaScript, no LotusScript. This has changed: I've added a few JavaScript behaviours: popup windows without the 'target' attribute, e-mail address protection and striped tables.

I've been quite busy working on SEO and building websites with Lotus Notes/Domino lately. When doing websites, I discovered that I had to reverse my thinking completely. Here are some of my findings.

My Lotus Notes Blog template is missing a way to comment on the posts. So I am making one, using only forms, views and a few formulas. How to set session cookies and permanent cookies and how to delete them. I also strip all HTML from a field value using @formulas only.

Why is my Domino site not ranked in Google? What causes bad search engine ranking and what can you do about it?

I always used to set cookies with JavaScript, but since webpages also have to be accessible without client side scripting or plugins, here are the formulas to set persistent or session cookies and to delete them.

About posting your blog to search engins and such. Technorati, Google, DominoBlogs,...

Internet Explorer 7 will be shipped this month as an automated update. Will it break the web applications you build or the ones you are using? And what can be done about it?

The importance of having semantic meaningfull id and class names in HTML tags.

This is what I'm going to do with my free time this weekend. I am giving a workshop about web development in Domino for my colleagues soon, and I was offered a space to blog on 'lotusnotes.be', a very lovely domain name for a Domino fan as me. Developing a blog and blogging about it at the same time is a little scary though.