Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) 2.0 Updated

The XML Print and Page Layout Working Group has published an updated Woking Draft of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) Version 2.0. XSL-FO is a powerful template-based language for formatting XML documents. This is the first draft that includes the existing specification as well as new work, although some new features from the previous draft are not yet included. Learn more about XML.

Widget Packaging and XML Configuration a Recommendation; three other Web Apps specifications published

The Web Applications Working Group published a W3C Recommendation today of Widget Packaging and XML Configuration. This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a class of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user interface widgets (e.g., buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.), widgets as specified in this document are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored using technologies such as HTML and then packaged for distribution.
The Working Group also published today:

• a Working Draft of Widget URI scheme, which defines the widget URI scheme and rules for dereferencing a widget URI, which can be used to address resources inside a package.
• a Note of Requirement For Standardizing Widgets, which lists the design goals and requirements that specifications would need to address in order to standardize various aspects of widgets.
• a Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL, which can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. Last call comments welcome through 18 October 2011.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

New Online Course: HTML5 Audio and Video

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new W3C online course: HTML5 Audio and Video. Taught by Mark Boas, one of the HTML5 doctors, the course will last 5 weeks, from 17 October to 20 November 2011. Through this course students will learn how to use HTML5 media in Web pages and applications. The full price of the course is €225 but we have a limited number of seats available at the early bird rate of €145, available until 7 October 2011. Register today!

SEO-Link Building

Link building is anything you do to point hyperlinks back to your website from third party websites. These hyperlinks, or links for short, help to get traffic to your site, allow others to find your valuable site, create awareness for your website, adds credibility, and most importantly assists in having your site found by search engines such as Google. It should be noted that search engines also have other criteria that determine their results, but inbound links are often given the most weight.

·         Deciding objective for a link

·         Natural Link Building – Adding quality content or something that benefits the end user that they would want to link to

·         Submissions of your site to online directories.

·         Reviews – getting influential bloggers write about your site and your products.

·         Links from Friends & Partners – Ask people you know and work with to link to your site.

·         Drive new visitors to our portfolio of websites, using all Internet Marketing tactics

Shorten urls and SEO

People are spending hours and hours in front of Facebook, Twitter etc, so URL Shortener services are increasing day by day. Most of people have this question that whether these short URLs are SEO friendly or not


Usually shorten URLs will redirect to destination URLs. We need to find out whether these redirections are permanent (301) or temporary (302). We have few free tools on the web to check it. Yes, URL Shorten Services are using permanent 301 redirection which is search engine friendly.

SEO Factors for Instant Analysis

Following are the list of respective factors which needs to be analyzed for a quick review:

• Domain Extension
• Page Loading Time
• Page Rank
• Alexa Rank
• Google, Bing & Yahoo Indexed Pages and Back Links
• Domain Age

• Canonical Redirection
• Title & Meta Tags
• Header Tags
• Image Tags

• Xml sitemap
• Html sitemap
• Robots.txt

• Google analytics account
• Google webmaster tools account

W3C Organizes Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Patterns

Linked Data technology offers huge potential for enterprise applications such as the integration and the management of data within and across enterprises. The distributed nature of Linked Data enables loose-coupling for data sharing within and between organizations. With Linked Data, enterprises have a unique opportunity to cooperate in their use of shared data without the costs of extensive coordination. W3C is organizing a Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Patterns: Data-driven Applications on the Web for participants to discuss requirements, share solutions, and develop a healthy and scalable Linked Enterprise Data infrastructure. Anyone may participate; W3C membership is not required. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 25 October. Learn more about the Workshop and the Semantic Web.

W3C Invites Implementations of Progress Events

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Progress Events. The Progress Events specification defines an event interface that can be used for measuring progress; e.g., HTTP entity body transfers. This specification is primarily meant to be used by other specifications. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Inria to Host First W3C Office in France

To strengthen its relations with industry and research activities in France and Europe, W3C announces today the opening of a W3C Office in France, hosted by Inria (French National Computer Science Research Institute). To mark the launch, the Office is organizing a session on Open Data at the Open World Forum on 22 September in Paris, in cooperation with Inria and Paris City Hall. "Inria has a longstanding commitment to the development of free software and open standards," said Prof. Michel Cosnard, Inria Chairman and CEO. "We have supported W3C's mission since the inception of the Consortium in 1994, notably by hosting W3C's European branch". Read the full press release and learn more about the W3C Offices.

Digital Ink Standard Enhances Device Integration

W3C announced a new standard for the exchange of "digital ink" on the Web. The Ink Markup Language (InkML) Recommendation can be used to store and exchange the output of an electronic pen or stylus as well as handwriting, gestures, sketches, music, and other notations. InkML is part of W3C's ongoing efforts to build One Web available from any device. A host of new applications are now possible thanks to this open standard, such as: pen-based text messaging; handwritten annotation of documents, photos, or other media; collaborative white boards; archiving of hand-written notes; and more efficient approaches to filling out forms. Read the press release and testimonials and learn more about the Web of Devices.

Last Call: R2RML and A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF

The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Last Call Working Drafts for bringing relational database information to the Semantic Web: R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language and A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF . The former describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings provide the ability to view existing relational data in the RDF data model, expressed in a structure and target vocabulary of the mapping author's choice. The latter document defines a direct mapping from relational data to RDF. Comments are welcome through 1 November. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

SEO- Help on Google Places account

The first thing you're going to need is a Google Places account.  This is where you will set up and claim your business. It's like creating a listing in a directory, so it's pretty easy to do.  Here are 5 tips:

1.  Fill out the information as detailed as you can.
2.  Make sure the way you list your business on Google Places is exactly the same everywhere else you may have listed it.  Believe it or not, there is a difference between "84 NE Loop 410, Suite 325" and "84 North East Loop 410, Ste. 325".  These are called citations, and they need to be as consistent as possible.
3.  Add photos or video to the page if you have them.
4.  Make sure you select the industries that describe your website the best.  DO NOT just add keywords here - this is considered a spammy tactic, and is easily detectable.
5.  Have your customers review you on your places page, or other sites that Google may be picking up reviews from (yelp.com, yp.com, etc.)

Once you're done filling all of this out, you have the option to get a phone call, or get a postcard to make the listing live.
Still not showing up? You'll need to work on getting more "citations", or directory listings.  Citations are to a local listing what an inbound link is to an organic listing.  Secondly, you may need more customers to "vouch" for you and leave a review, but don't get spammy fake ones, because that can actually hurt you rather than help.

W3C Launches Work on “Do Not Track” Standards for the Web

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The World Wide Web Consortium announced a new standardization effort to improve user privacy on the Web. The Tracking Protection Working Group will create standards for "Do Not Track" technology by building consensus among a broad set of stakeholders, including browser vendors, content providers, advertisement networks, search engines, and experts in policy, privacy, and consumer protection. The Working Group, which first meets in two weeks, is charted to publish Do Not Track standards by mid-2012. The standards will let users express their tracking preferences and select which parties can track them online. Learn more about W3C's Privacy Activity and read the April 2011 Report from the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy, which was sponsored by Adobe, Yahoo!, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft.

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SEO - Improve Your Site Speed

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Placing your style sheets (CSS) near the top and JavaScript near the bottom of the coding for each of your web pages can improve the perceived speed of your website for human visitors.

When someone directs a web browser to a web page, the browser starts from the top of the code and works its way down. The style sheets are one of the more important pieces for human viewers, because they determine how the site will look. After that, your website's actual content will load pretty quickly. It's as if the style sheets set out a framework, and then the content loads into that framework.

The JavaScript - or <script> tags - provide things like interactive features or actions that your viewer won't notice unless they perform an action on a web page. So allowing the JavaScript to load last means your visitors see everything on the page that's visual, even while the JavaScript is still loading. So your visitors see your page as loading faster than it really does.

Why does this matter? Because people are impatient. If a web page seems very slow, they're more likely to leave.

Want to know if your website has CSS or JavaScript in the wrong place? The AboutUs Site Report will warn you of any pages that need attention.
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Many websites have some code whose purpose is to pull something from a service that's out of their control. For example, a website may use:

A "share" button from a service such as AddThis
An e-commerce shopping cart provided by another company
A widget that displays the company's recent tweets on Twitter

The code for Google Analytics can also slow your site down a bit, though the insights you'll gain from using analytics usually outweigh this slight disadvantage. I recommend that you take advantage of other speed improvements, and keep the analytics.

It's wise to check the speed of any external features on your site. If you aren't using a feature, or if it is of minimal value to your business and website, you should remove it.

Want to know if your website's pages are using a lot of JavaScript? The Site Report will warn you of any pages that reference more than 3 external JavaScript files.

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CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 Draft Updated

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The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3. This CSS Image Values and Replaced Content module has two parts: First, it defines the syntax for image values in CSS. Second, it defines properties used to control the interaction of replaced content and the CSS layout algorithms. These properties can affect the used image resolution for bitmaps, the replaced object's orientation, and whether and how to preserve the object's aspect ratio. Learn more about the Style Activity.

Last Call: Performance Timeline; User Timing

The Web Performance Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of Performance Timeline and User Timing. The former defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. The latter defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps. Comments are welcome through 22 September. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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Three CSS Drafts Published; First Draft of Conditional Rules Module Level 3

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published three drafts today:

• a First Public Working Draft of CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3, which describes the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This module contains the features of CSS for conditional processing of parts of style sheets, conditioned on capabilities of the processor or the document the style sheet is being applied to.
• a draft of CSS Text Level 3, which defines properties for text manipulation and specifies their processing model. It covers line breaking, justification and alignment, white space handling, text decoration and text transformation.
• a draft of CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3, which defines CSS features to support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts).

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