I developed a small flash component which calculates your Body Mass Index (BMI). This component might have been developed earlier. But I thought that you will be interested and like to use in your website or blog. Have a look at it and download it from the link given below. You can use it in any way you like.

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If you need more customized components, just drop me an email to admin@best-internet-guide.com

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I’m working on an Adobe® Flex® project these days. Therefore I had to do some study on Flex and its technology. As far as I found out, web design and application world has welcomed the Flex technology warmly and websites built using Flex are gaining popularity day by day. Therefore I thought to write this post on Flex and its impact on the web design world.

Actually Flex is not only for web applications. It can be used to develop desktop applications which are using web services. Adobe® Flex® technology is a client side technology. It communicates with the server side using web services. As this article is for the general people, I won’t talk about technology very much here. The final outcome of a web site built with Flex is a .swf file (in simple, a Flash animation). Within that, we can do everything like we do in an ordinary web application. For an example, we can add text boxes, combo boxes, buttons, lists, grids etc. Actually the latest Flex version (3) supports almost all the components available in the HTML and many new features.

A development language called “Action Script” is used to manipulate these component values and communicate with the server side. Apart from all the technology aspects, Flex supports us to add more Flash effects to the whole web application while doing complicated data manipulation. In ordinary websites, we use Flash animations for some limited purposes like advertising, buttons and we couldn’t use the whole space easily. Flex helps to overcome this. Therefore the website owners are thinking to migrate to Flex as it gives a better look and feel, And also, a good functionality.

Within few years I’m pretty sure that many of the websites in the internet will be ones built with Flex. But I still don’t have an idea about how this will affect the Google ranking and how the Google and other search engine spiders will crawl in the Flex built web sites. I hope to find about it and post a blog post on it in the future.

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I found a very interesting SEO software while I was surfing through the internet. It is called the “SEO Elite”. I will explain its details in this post. If you are interested in buying a good and efficient SEO software to automate the hard SEO process which will reduce your time and money, I recommend this as a good one.

As I have explained you earlier, you must do a background study on any website which sells products online. Otherwise there is a great chance that you will lose your hardly earned money. Therefore first I checked its Google rank. It is 5/10 currently which is an indication of high traffic to the website normally at least few thousands per day. If this website is doing a fraud, they won’t have this much of traffic and a page rank. I also checked the website with Alexa.com and its rank is 16,167 which is a global rank, also indicating a high traffic website. Following is the traffic chart of SEO Elite from Alexa.com for the last 6 months.

Here’s a small extract from the product website. There are many explanations in the website. If you are interested, have a visit and explore yourself. I wish you good luck on your SEO work.

Here’s a small extract from the product website. There are many explanations in the website. If you are interested, have a visit and explore yourself. I wish you good luck on your SEO work.

It’s a piece of cutting-edge technology powered by the cries of regular people just like you and me who were sick and tired of being kicked around the internet by their competition and the “big” SEO firms.

I say “big” because after I released this software to the world, a whole lot of things have changed online because…

Big SEO Firms Have Lost Their Iron Grip!

They no longer control the masses - they no longer control YOU.

…Because this incredible software has empowered the average person, any person, including you…to take command and control your internet traffic with just a few clicks of your mouse!

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World Wide Web (www) and the search engines have changed the whole world I guess. These two have changed lifestyles of many people around the world. Actually these two have participated for the development of the world business and improvement of life style of many people. I won’t say that it doesn’t have bad effects. But comparably these two have been more helpful.

From now on I will call World Wide Web as www. In the infant stage of the www, it has basically informative and study oriented. But with the unbelievable rapid expansion of www, it has become the world’s most powerful and best business medium. Money transactions are done by trillions of Dollars per day and it is continuously increasing. Search engines have become the main information provider for many needs like educational, business and entertainment. Google has the most popularity on information based search. Google has developed complex search techniques using more complex algorithms to show the most suitable web pages for a searcher.

With the higher user interactions and visits, the internet has become a major advertising and marketing medium. Businesses make profits with internet advertising and webmasters like me earn an income by displaying ads :-). The internet and search engines have made many people rich. They have a very powerful way of attracting people and businesses.

This post is a short one compared to others. I wanted to express my ideas on the internet and search engines. In the next post I will explain you about another interesting thing in the internet, the parts of a search engine.

Rank of a website directly shows how important the website is and the frequency of the people who access it. There are many websites dedicated to rank every website in the internet according to various ranking formulas and algorithms. Therefore the rank of a website definitely varies from a ranking organization to another. But there are mainly two organizations to find a reasonable rank value where most of the people around the globe trust. As I promised you in the earlier post, I will explain how to find the rank of your website or another website using these two organizations. It is very important to find the rank of another website when you plan to purchase a good or service (for SEO, to register in paid web directories and to publish press releases).

The first rank I recommend is Google. The Google’s ranking algorithms are so complex and changing time to time. It is the most respected in the Internet as far as I know. There are many websites who shows the Google page rank of a website by asking to enter the URL of the website. But we can’t be 100% sure about their accuracy. My advice is to download the freely available Google toolbar for your web browser (offered for Firefox and IE). After downloading and installing it, restart the web browser. You will find the Google toolbar attached to your web browser as follows.

Now you are ready to find the page rank of any website you prefer. All you have to do is, go to the website you like to find the page rank. After it is fully loaded look at the small horizontal box in the Google toolbar as follows.

If Google has started ranking for the website you accessed, the box will appear activated and if the website has a rank > 0, it will be displayed in green color. When you take your mouse over it, it will show the page rank as a fraction of 10 (Ex. 1/10, 2/10 to 10/10).

Oops! I forgot to tell you about the Google rank range. Google rank starts from zero and ends with 10. If the website has a rank 10, it is the best (I couldn’t find a website ranking 10 up to now.). If the above mentioned box in the Google toolbar is inactive, most probably the website is new. Otherwise it is not publicly listed. You have to e careful when you pay for these kinds of websites. My personal advice is to find a website which has a rank greater than or equal to 5, if you plan to pay for a good or service offered online.

The other most respected ranking organization is alexa.com. It is more informative than the Google toolbar. But the ranking algorithm and criteria is different from Google. The websites having higher ranks in Google also have higher ranks in alexa.com normally. Therefore any respected and trusted website will have similar rankings in Google and alexa.com. Those ranks will not be the same. But both will show higher ranks for trusted and famous websites. Alexa.com shows a graph of website traffic for any website which is among the top 100,000 websites. It also shows the number of visitors from each region/country. And there are many other statistics displayed. With alexa.com, you also have the facility to compare traffic of multiple websites up to 5. This is a very good feature provided there if you are in a situation where you have to make a choice from multiple numbers of websites. I used this technique to find my webhost as I had to make a decision to choose a web hosting company from multiple websites.

If the website you wanted to find the rank shows higher ranks in both Google and alexa.com, you can trust it. I advise you to find traffic details of it using alexa.com ranking as it will show you the recent progress or decline of traffic of that website. Always try to choose a website which has a steady traffic. It is better not to choose new websites for your payments.

Now you know how to find the rank of a website and sometimes you might find the page rank of this website :-). You won’t be able to find a higher rank as this is a new website. But I hope that you will trust me on the future information that I’m going to provide freely. In the next post, I will move back into SEO and I will explain you about the most common SEO abusing methods which will affect your website badly.