Julian Bez

I’ve redesigned my personal website, not yet the blog. I’d by happy, if you could check out the new design and post comments.

First, I played with the thought of moving away from the blue design, but I came to the insight that blue is part of the websites identity. So now it’s still blue. It’s more a refining or rearrangement, than a redesign… well, there are more pictures on the home page now, and the text on the other pages is not just a “block”.

I want to redesign the blog over the next weeks, if you got ideas, post them here.

Everybody wants to optimize his site for search engines. Here comes something you should know.

A long time ago, there was some rumor about meta tags. Nowadays, it seems they are useless. Everybody could put something in there, so search engines don’t pay much attention to them. However, I noticed that you can still affect your search engine results by using the meta description tag.

<meta name="description" content="Your text" />

Your description will actually appear on Google. It’ll be shown if

• the keywords someone searched for are in the description
• the keywords are not found in the body, but in the title or URL
• you do a search using “site:” only

You see, the meta description can still be useful. Users and potential clients will benefit from a clear description.

There’s a new feature over at del.icio.us. You can bundle your tags now. That makes it much easier for you to sort your bookmarks.

http://del.icio.us/settings/YOURUSERID/bundle

this lets you assign tags to “bundles” which will cause the tag listing on the right to be organized by the specified bundles.