Today I noticed a new feature on the Google homepage: Extra tabs to get new space for more Google gadgets, modules or RSS feeds. Maybe is this not the biggest invention but it will speed up your default page if you group frequently used modules or gadgets on a second tab. Maybe you like to add one of my own Google Modules; the RSS feed of this Blog or the some PHP script release information.

I noticed in this swicki blog post some tips about how to optimize your buzz cloud for your website:

For example, it’s possible to use a parent html block element to resize the width of your buzz cloud. But there are more possibilities while using CSS: I re-styled this buzz cloud to get some mouse-over effects with the colors from the website:

#swicki a {
color:#4088b8;
}
#swicki div a:hover {
color:#F15A22;
}

You need to add an ID to your parent container element.

“The 100 Lists Web Directory” is offering links from the homepage to website owners with the 10 highest bids. Some webmaster would say that’s a good chance to get PR5 link from a busy website directory. As one of the first customers I hold some of these links for only a few dollars over several months. Until last week: My links are removed from the main page by some higher bids. I did two times a higher offer before I decided to don’t pay anymore to get this “hot” listing again.

Today I found some interesting article on the weblog from Info Vilesilencer, some important information to get an answer about how much you should pay for a paid directory inclusion. There is also a list of recommended low cost link directories (I didn’t test them yet).

The value of a directory listing is based on different factors like links on a regular websites. What is the PageRank and is the link SEO friendly? But for a paid directory inclusion there also are other factors important: Is the price a one time payment and will this directory still exists over a few years?

With a high submission fee it will be more difficult to decide to submit a website then with a lower fee. If you’re not sure, then submit your website for free to this SEO friendly directory.

While testing some code to find a different way to upload files with PHP, I checked a lot of websites to get the information I need to understand cURL better. Today I found this article: Using the CURL library in PHP

With only a few examples it was clear for what usage I need cURL and where it’s better to use PHP functions. The following sentence has some important information:

“Next up is the CURLOPT_POST option. This is a very useful function, as it allows you to do POST requests, instead of GET requests, which actually means you can submit forms to other pages without having to actually fill in the form.”

That will say a web form is not posted to cCURL but to the remote server but can be posted by cURL to the next server or different location.
For the upload of files via forms is cURL not the best option, but you can upload the form to the remote server and post the uploaded data with cURL to the next location. This is useful if this location is password protected or only accepts connection from one IP address…