Jourdein

Yesterday was officially the day I’ve started developing my Elance customer iPhone app. I was hoping to give my best through out this period.

Though it was yesterday, I’ve already slowly started developing it after receiving the description and content for the app.

I did a google search on which is the best one to use to redirect page from another. I had this in mind, whether to use meta tag refresh or 301 redirect in htaccess file. I was afraid that using meta redirect would be rank penalize by google.

After the search, the safest way to redirect is to use 301 redirect. To do 301 redirect you just need to add this code in .htaccess file in the root directory:

RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /index.html http://mydomain.com/blog/

You might be asking what is meta fresh tag… It just a simple html code put on the top of the html file that redirect user from that page to another page. It look like this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.anotherdomain.com">

Here I’ve got some good illustration of the what those mean with other types or redirection.

Here is the link which I referred to (all links open in new window):

• http://www.redalkemi.com/blog/the-seo-war-of-redirects-301-vs-302-vs-meta-refresh-tag
• http://www.seoworkers.com/seo-articles-tutorials/permanent-redirects.html
• http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-scripting.asp
• http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm

While I did search for text highlighting for my project, I stumbled upon a website that discuss about the worse and wrong menu items in Windows. I like this paragraph from the author:

Apple in its wisdom has given Cocoa developers much more control over how menus are drawn in Leopard. You can in fact, draw anything you please in a menu now. Don’t do it. It was bad enough when you could clutter up your menus with blocky little useless icons, now the user can innocently click on a menu and be confronted with the Gates of Hell. Don’t do it. Resist the temptation. Put the NSView down. If you are porting a Windows app, do not let the pointy haired boss force you into porting the ugly menus. Tell him it can’t be done. Tell him you would lose Tiger compatibility. Tell him anything, but don’t mess with Mac menus.

Read more at his website: Chaotic nature of windows menus.