How to Use ColdFusion to Ping the Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo Sitemap Services
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Sitemaps help web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. If your content is continously updated, then you should let the search engines know that your XML file of all your site links has been updated. To date, Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo support the Sitemap 0.90 protocol. Visit sitemaps.org for the sitemap XML format, if you haven’t already created one. There are also websites that will create a sitemap for you.
Programmers need a crisp, clear font so they can distinguish between similar characters. What makes for a good coding font? The first criteria is the font needs to be a monospaced typeface. This means the characters have equal widths or a fixed pitch. Next, the similar characters need to be easily distingishable such as 1,I,i (one, capital I, lower case i), 0,O,o (zero, capital O, lower case o), as well as clear special characters such as parenthesis, brackets, braces, quotes, and punctuation.
Since we changed our clocks for daylight savings time, my Dreamweaver CS3 would crash when I would open a page and click on the code area or design area. There is an alternative to reinstalling your copy of the software.
ColdFusion allows you to set an APPLICATION scope that can be leveraged to decrease database calls and increase your site performance. This is a beginner level explanation of how you save a result set in ColdFusion memory that will process quicker than querying a table.
