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Probabilmente se siete blogger già conoscete il servizio feedburner: in pratica vi permette di centralizzare, monitorare e standardizzare il vostro Feed RSS. Non tutti forse conoscevano l’headline animator, uno dei servizi forniti che genera automaticamente un’immagine animata dei contenuti recenti del vostro feed. Ebbene, da qualche giorno è possibile customizzare l’headline animator come meglio credete: fonts, dimensioni, immagine di background e colori. In questo modo potete creare un headline animator dinamico che possa integrarsi al meglio laddove intendete utilizzarlo. Io ho provato a modificare il mio ed ecco il risultato:

In realtà la scritta “Subscribe Now” avrebbe dovuto blinkare ma non ho ancora capito perchè non lo fa Avrò ancora tempo per migliorare il mio logo, comunque le novità non sono finite:

Hey, the title of this post says “Part I”, subtly implying that there might be other parts in the future. Yes, we’re going to add the ability to have multiple styles of Headline Animator for a single feed and we’re going to add a number of common themes and styles from which you can pick and choose instead of building from scratch. Coming soon.

Staremo a vedere!

As seen on LevySoft (it) I’m reccomending you the following SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools for webmaster, which can help you improving your website design, compliance to standards, ranking in search engines and overall user experience:

• Silktide: want to get a score like the one I’ve displayed above. On Silktide you can run an online test to check out how good your website is (Marketing, Design, Experience,Accessibility and Visitor Rating if any). You get a score, then the analysis goes “in depth” to check out specific flaws in your design (speed, popularity, standards, interactivity, features). I found it very useful to improve my website
• Multiple Datacenter Pagerank Tool: since there are many replicated Google datacenters around the net, this tool helps you to check if you pagerank is up-to-date in every datacenter. With a single query, you will known the status of your Pagerank on each server
• WebXACT: this tool let you check single pages to discover flaws about quality, accessibility and privacy issues.
• BidTool: are you interested in knowing what terms pay out more in advertising? Check out your keywords with this tool.
• Keyword Selector Tool: not sure about the bidding term? You can see how many times that term and related one has been requested during last month.
• SeoMoz Tools: there are many “coming soon” tools here, and they need you to register and provide Google API key to use, but it’s very interesting. Just check thier available service Keyword Difficulty Tool. As they say: “Used to analyze the competitive landscape of a particular search term or phrase, this tool issues a percentage score and provides a detailed analysis of the top ranking sites at google and Yahoo.“. Nice, huh?
• Google Adwords Sandbox: this service is intended for adwords publishers, but who says that you can’t use it too to improve your ranking?
• Google Sitemaps: this Google feature is not a new, but still many don’t know about it. Sitemaps add an XML based description of your website to instruct search engines (Google and Sitemap-compliant ones) how to index your website. It’s a sort of powerful robots.txt file. I can say that using Sitemaps on this site slightly improved my SEO ratings and SE indexing responsiveness to new content. If you use CMS software (like wordpress), there are many plugins that automatically create the Sitemap for you, so all you must do is really little work to add this to your site!

Well, I hope these tools will help you developing a better webpage. If you know more of them, just drop a line in the comments and I’ll add them to the list!