2010 February | Blog Alan Curtis

February 22

We, also in Albania has started the first National SEO Contest!

How Advertalis, my young Albanian society of seo web marketing , and now as a resident in Tirana, I could not refrain from participating.

The keywords chosen by the organizers of the site was Seo.al " mushkonja "in Italian mosquito questionable choice from my point of view (and not only I think) and it is also a curious coincidence.

But the comments and considerations refer to another time, having also heard the organizers to clarify some doubts.

For now I will not reveal the details of the techniques that I plan to implement in any case somewhat giving birth 'disadvantaged since the contest began Feb. 15. But no matter, will last until May 15, 2010, and so it's still everything to play for.

Why this is, a good game that I hope positively involving all participants to learn and do new things all the intricacies of search engines and online visibility!

Good mushkonja at all!

February 17

List of web-safe fonts

Fonts truly universal, cross-browsers and cross-systems, very few.
I refer to those fonts (character sets) that appear in the same way by all popular operating systems and computers in the world (PC, Mac, Unix-Linux, Amiga-if there are still people who use it to navigate, Symbian handhelds or Windows Mobile, etc ...)

In fact, that a font is displayed properly, not enough to define it in html or css. The font must be installed in computers of those who viewed the Web page. In fact, if not found, the system automatically replaces it with a standard type Arial or Times New Roman.

That's why the fonts 'web safe' are very few, the prerequisite is that they are pre-installed in all (or most) operating systems in the world. But some are protected by copyright, so can not be used by other companies (see Microsoft's Times New Roman).

Here are the lists of web-safe fonts with variants for compatibility on all systems, ready to be pasted inside css styles.

font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif;
font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;
font-family: Courier, monospace;
font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-family: Garamond, serif;
font-family: Georgia, serif;
font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;
font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family: 'MS Serif', 'New York', sans-serif;
font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;
font-family: Symbol, sans-serif;
font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family: Webdings, sans-serif;
font-family: Wingdings, 'Zapf Dingbats', sans-serif;

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