Posted by Quimby Melton on November 29, 2006
Looking to advertise the page across the French language web and have it returned more readily in Google.fr searches (and thereby make it more readily available to prospective French renters), today Studio Hyperset moved the French version of the 7 rue René Fournets page to a French server (1&1 Hébergement) and linked it to a French (.fr) domain name.
The new URL for the French version of the page is http://www.pau-locationvacances.fr
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 27, 2006
Here’s a neat little truc that seems to justify the Studio Hyperset project: the Miglia TVMicro.
And just in time for the holidays . . .
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 19, 2006
Studio Hyperset recently completed an intimate, boutique page for the townhouse in which co-founder Quimby Melton is living this Fall.
Located at 7 rue René Fournets in Pau, France, the owner of this rental property was having trouble making the page she’d built to advertise the house on the WWW rank well in Google search returns. As a result, the house wasn’t renting as consistently as she would have liked.
Scrapping the former site in favor of an attractive graphic layout coupled with
the new site at http://www.pau-accommodation.com is poised to rank higher in search returns and thereby generate more traffic to the site. Once there, visitors should be intrigued by the graphics-heavy layout and Flash image rotator, both of which are meant to ensure the lovely home presents itself as attractively as possible to potential renters.
The bilingual site (in French and English) is also the first Studio Hyperset project to use a language other than English. This brought a number of design issues and questions to the forefront of the project: How can we be sure the French pages will be indexed in Google.fr? Should we set the French pages aside in a French directory or keep the French pages in the main-directory? How do we alert users to the presence of a French/English-language page and allow them to toggle back and forth between the two?
Settling for
users can toggle between the French and English versions of the pages using the French and UK/US flags in the top right of the main text areas of all pages. After some debate, it was decided that the flags would link to the pages on which they appear (i.e., allowing the visitor to toggle between the French and English versions of the contact form, for example) rather than “back” to the index/home pages of each language.
Finally, having found scant advice on the topic save this excellent article, Studio Hyperset hopes the <meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”fr”> meta tag included in the French pages will alert Google to index those pages in its French-language directory. We’re also trying to persuade the owner of the house to buy the .fr extension of her domain name as well as server space for the French version of the page in France.
Input, via blog comments or email to info@studiohyperset.com is always welcomed on how to better ensure this result.
And of course to French visitors of the site, nous sommes désolés que la langue première du site web est l’anglais. Pardonez-nous, s’il vous plaît.
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 12, 2006
For an up-to-date list of posts/comments on this topic and a link to the most current version of the script(s), visit the MOBILE REDIRECT CODE DISCUSSION INDEX.
Updating this posting of October 6th, the .asp and .php user_agent scripts have been “finalized” in the Studio Hyperset webpage. Inserted into the pole position of the <head> section of the index page using the following three <script> tags, these scripts are called when the page loads:
<script type=”text/php” language=”php” src=”/scripts/mobile.php”></script>
<script type=”text/vbscript” language=”vbscript” src=”/scripts/mobile.asp”></script>
<script type=”text/vbscript” language=”vbscript” src=”/scripts/mobile2.asp”></script>
Here’s an updated version of the three scripts as running on the website, and here’s a discussion of various other ways to control mobile traffic to a website.
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 12, 2006
v.1.5 of the Studio Hyperset homepage features a Flash preloader inspired by the following tutorial.
For those just getting started in Flash, it will help you build an easily customizable preloader in about 20 minutes.
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 8, 2006
Continuing the train of thought from an earlier posting, here’s a reliable and extensively populated Javascript browser sniffer: http://jsbrwsniff.sourceforge.net/index.html. However, it doesn’t redirect visitors, but one fluent in JS could insert this into the code.
I’m still working on the SH site to redirect mobile visitors to the mobile site. Referencing the same earlier posting mentioned above, I’m going to combine the user agent strings of the .asp and .php scripts into one PHP file executed when the page loads via a <script> tag in the head.
I’ll post developments here as I find time to make them.
Javascript, though, is another option for web developers looking to redirect visitors to a sub- or mobile-site based on platform and/or browser. This is what Yahoo! uses for their messenger page. (Here’s the .js file). I’m just enchanted by the cleanliness and organization of PHP vis-a-vis the crazed relationships of a JS file. Of course, server-side is usually going to be cleaner than client-side anyway.
I’ll post a comparison of the Yahoo! JS file and the StudioHyperset PHP when the latter’s ready.
However, as the French would say, it’s largely a matter of “à chacun son goût.”
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 8, 2006
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v.1.3 of the Studio Hyperset website includes our three new IM screen names: MSN Messenger, Skype, and Yahoo! Messenger. Chat live with either Quimby or Isaac about Studio Hyperset goings-on, hypermedia at-large, those Georgia Bulldogs, or anything else under the sun. You can, of course, chat with us in MySpace too.
Our MSN screen name is: info@studiohyperset.com and our Skype and Yahoo! screen names are both studiohyperset.
Our website (v. 1.3) has been updated to reflect this addition. Just click the blue “IM” button in the top right side of the page.
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Posted by Quimby Melton on November 3, 2006
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You can now add Studio Hyperset to your AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) and GoogleTalk buddy lists. Chat live with either Quimby or Isaac about Studio Hyperset goings-on, hypermedia at-large, those Georgia Bulldogs, or anything else under the sun. You can, of course, chat with us in MySpace too.
Our AIM screen name is: studiohyperset, and our GoogleTalk screen name is studiohyperset@gmail.com.
Our website (v. 1.1) has been updated to reflect this addition. Just click the blue “IM” button in the top right side of the page.
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