Simon Willison's Weblog

Simon Willison's Weblog: "Simon Willison's Weblog
PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development"

Column Layouts - css-discuss

Three Column Layouts - css-discuss - BobEaston : "The question of finding good 3 column layouts comes up in the mail list from time to time. Here are some that I have found, along with a few notations about what features they include and how they work. The judgement of 'good' is left to you and your needs. Each offers interesting techniques for the CSS student. By the way, when visiting these places, look around; many of these people offer other layouts that I have not included here.

I'm sure there are more that I have missed. Add the others you know, or mail me and I'll add them. Of course, don't hesitate to mail me about any errors or misrepresentations I've made.
-- Enjoy! -- BobEaston"

Search Term Difficulty Checker

Search Term Difficult Checker :: SearchGuild.com: This is a Google API application so you will need a key (freely available) from http://www.google.com/api Enter your key and a search query in the box below. The program will then crawl the web and do some analysis on the results. It does this by using an algorithm that approximates the Google search algorithm. The exact algorithm is one that I use for my own research, it's not a perfect match for Google but doesn't need to be. The end result is a factor that indicates how difficult it would be to rank on the first page for this term (the higher the factor is the harder it is). Be patient, only click the button once as it takes a while to do all the crawling and calculations.

Search Engine Keyword Tracker

Search Engine Keyword Tracker / Search Engine Optimization & Keyword Ranking Tool / SEO - This utility can be used to check search engines for keyword ranking and track search engine ranking for your various keywords over time, which as you probably know is critical when doing search engine optimization.