Once I got myself into a situation where I cannot do away with table. I had to use the tables and with curved border only. Getting this done with Divs and CSS is quite possible but tables are little headache to play with in such condition.

With little tweaking in the code I achieved easily without using images. (This won’t work in IE. IE9 may support it.)

Examples of tables with curved border:

The code for above table is

<table width=”200″ style=”background:#CCC;border:1px #333 solid;text-align:center;” class=”curve_b”>
<tr>
<td>Name</td><td>ID</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Steve</td><td>Peter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0123</td><td>0124</td>
</tr>
</table>

The curve effect is being generated by class “curve_b” included in table (red color).  And CSS style code for the class is

.curve_b {
    border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;
}

Getting curve for tables having cell border need little extra coding. We need to define separate classes to each cell which has to be curved. See sample code below

a) Table with Cellspacing

<table width=”200″ style=”background:#CCC;border:1px #333 solid;text-align:center;”>
<tr>
<td class=”curve_tl”>Name</td>
<td class=”curve_tr”>ID</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style=”border:1px #333 solid;”>Steve</td>
<td style=”border:1px #333 solid;”>Peter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=”curve_bl”>0123</td>
<td class=”curve_br”>0124</td>
</tr>
</table>

b) Table without  Cellspacing

<table width=”200″ style=”background:#CCC;border:1px #333 solid;text-align:center;” cellspacing=”0″>
<tr>
<td class=”curve_tl”>Name</td>
<td class=”curve_tr”>ID</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style=”border:1px #333 solid;”>Steve</td>
<td style=”border:1px #333 solid;”>Peter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=”curve_bl”>0123</td>
<td class=”curve_br”>0124</td>
</tr>
</table>

CSS properties creating curve borders for table cells are

.curve_tl {
    border:1px #333 solid;
    border-top-left-radius:10px;    
    -webkit-border-top-left-radius:10px;
}

.curve_tr {
    border:1px #333 solid;    
    border-top-right-radius:10px;    
    -webkit-border-top-right-radius:10px;
}

.curve_bl {
    border:1px #333 solid;    
    border-bottom-left-radius:10px;        
    -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:10px;
}

.curve_br {
    border:1px #333 solid;    
    border-bottom-right-radius:10px;    
    -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:10px;
}

Note:

• Firefox, Safari and Opera browsers support “border-radiaus” property, but not Chrome and IE.
• Chrome support “webkit”.
• IE does not support border curve properties.

One of the great features of smart phones that I need most is that it can be used as a modem. From last few days I am trying to use internet on my Acer laptop through my Nokia N900 but because of some missing in drives of Bluetooth I could connect my smart phone with my laptop.  I tried few drivers downloaded from different location. But nothing worked.

While surfing some websites and rooming around in some forums I got a hint of using Nokia PC suite to access internet.  I thought to make a try.

I downloaded Nokia PC suite for Nokia N900 from Nokia website. There you can find huge list of all the PC suites for Nokia Mobile which are available in the market.

Click here to download PC Suite for Nokia N900

After installing PC suite, I connected Nokia N900 with laptop through USB data cable and selected  PC Suite mode from Nokia N900.

Now Nokia PC Suite application that will connect mobile to laptop need be started. It can be started from windows start menu or from quick launch icon if it was left on desktop while installing PC suite.

Now clicked web icon (red circled) to make internet connectivity between phone to laptop. An another window (One Touch Access) is opened showing connectivity.

And finally I got successfully running internet on my laptop. This was the easiest way I could find to access internet on laptop with my Nokia N900.

If you want you can use Bluetooth for using internet on your laptop, will be having same method. The only difference would be connecting laptop and cell via Bluetooth instead USB cable. And process will be same.

I will install required Bluetooth drivers so that I can connect my laptop with my smart phone. And will update this post for Bluetooth connectivity.

Share your experiences of using interned by using your phone. This will help many new users to get connected with internet by using phone as a modem.

Let’s first understand how the reputation built or damaged online. Online Reputation is directly proportional to users/customer’s experience with your websites and services. The more user is satisfied with your website the less chances are there for negative review.

It doesn’t matter how much you starve to give better experience to your user, one day you might face some bad review because practically it is not possible to fulfill the requirement and expectation of every user. Sometimes some silly mistakes or misunderstanding from user can earn you bad review.

I will let you know few tactics by which you can keep your negative brand reputation up to minimal level and how you can keep your bad review away from user’s eye.

Precautionary Measures: (It is always better to be safe than worry)
Better Browsing Experience: The tag line would be “Keep your user satisfied and give your visitor a great experience while walking through your website!” Keep few important things in your mind.

• Make your websites in such way that it should answer all the questions that may come into user’s mind.
• Do not frustrate your user by unorganized navigation and menus.
• Keep proper hierarchy or presentation of your content.
• All your important pages and customer information pages should be accessible from your entire website.
• Try to make your website fast enough to take your visitors smoothly throughout the website. Delay in opening of Web Pages may annoy visitor.

Following all these points will make your website user friendly and will make user experience better reducing the probabilities of annoying user.

Maintaining User Trust: It is very important to keep your customer happy and satisfied with your products and services to retain the trust of your customer.

The tag line would be “do not leave your customer until they get what they paid for!” Also some important points have to be taken into consideration so far user trust is concerned.

• Do not give fake or wrong information to your customer.
• Fulfill the commitment regarding your product and services.
• Be very communicative to your user and explain as much as you can about your product and services. Every thing has to be very open and clear to the customer about your product and services.
• Keep a feedback and complain section in your website so that you can come to know any unknown issue which might be annoying or disturbing to your trusted customer.

If worked on all these steps may reduce the chances of getting your online image worsen any way. All these things will not guarantee you to keep your online business untouched from bad reputation, but surely can be of great benefit.

Actions to be taken after you hit with bad review: (Tips to cope up with negative review.)
Imagine one person is spitting on you, what would you do? What are you thinking … will hit him. You can escape yourself somehow. Now suppose 100 people are spiting on you, now? How will you escape? In this situation what can help you? An umbrella, over jacket, raincoat or you will run out of the place. NOTHING WILL WORK.

Then what the hell you should do? Here.. the best you can do is that shut the mouth of whoever spitting.

In simple words take complains very seriously and resolve every single issue and problem faced by your respected customer or user.

Revenge and frustration are inbuilt and most powerful characteristics of human, this will only lead to damage and disaster if challenged. Being very attentive and responsive with great humble and politeness will make your customer more comfortable and patient till you find the issues and resolve it.

After resolving the issues, ask the customer to remove/delete the negative review wherever it was published. If it is not possible to remove that ask the customer to reply or make compensatory comment over there. You should also follow-up the respective issues as a company representative in the same place addressing issues in professional way and emphasizing the resolving point.

Keep the bad review away from User’s eye: The websites about consumer forums, review and complain sooner get authority and their pages rank quit good in SE SERPs. This is the reason discussing anything with domain name in such website achieve top ranking for the respective domain name. Any user searching about the website or company with the domain name may come across such negative reviews. This directly creates the negative image of your company in user’s mind.

Sometimes it is not possible to get rid off of it. In this case drags such comments and review out of the user’s eye. To deal such issue creates your company’s profile in some quality and authoritative websites and promote them. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc. can be exploited for this purpose. Along with you can get listing in company profile, business profile and business directory websites; and with good amount of promotion and link building, all these profiles for your website may rank higher in SERPs and will push bad review little beyond the reach of user’s eye.

For successful business keep one thing in your mind that your real business is not your product and service your are providing, your real business is your customer. There must hundreds other who all providing the same product and service. A relationship of trust between customer and provider is the real key of successful business.

Still I am waiting to get some response or any clue from Google WMT to decide my further strategies. As it may take weeks, I kept on researching and studying Google Penalties. After this instance I got one thing very clearly that link building is not an easy task. If done correctly under the guidelines of Google, will take you on the top but if you tried breaking Google’s law, one day you will find yourself in HELL. So it’s better to keep your pace gradual (don’t do aggressive link building) and only work with white hat techniques. But if you are thinking you have been fooling Google for long and Google is not able to catch, you are fooling yourself. One day you will be caught and will be thrown on hot desert where you won’t find a single drop of water.

Anybody who is working as a Webmaster, SEO, SEM or Link Builder first read Google Webmaster Guidelines and then strategies you work. I have collected some very important points from Google webmaster Guidelines and also from some very genuine and senior white hat webmasters, those have to be kept in mind or should be avoided to stay away from Google Penalty.

29 October 2009 when I checked ranking of my websites, I could not even believed in my eyes. I tried all the variations of keywords but my website was nowhere. I tried domain name too but still showing nothing. I checked few more websites I was working on and worst I found. All my major websites were out of Google Index. Finally used Google Site operator to find my websites that I was restricting myself to does that as it may confirm my websites gone completely. And that too didn’t return anything.

Was it Google Penalty only or complete Ban?

First of all what is Google Penalty I believe, if your traffic down unnaturally or your keywords lost ranking in a drastic manner not because of any issues like mistakenly disallow your important pages in robots.txt or your ISP having any technical issues which makes your website unavailable to Search Engine for long time. So if I try to find out is it my website penalized on this definition then YES it seems that my website is penalized. But I had to confirm is it only penalty or a complete ban in Google. I have done some checking and testing that put me nowhere.

What Checks I Have Done:

1. Checked PR: No change found.
2. Checked website with Site operator: Google showed no results.
3. Checked website with link operator: Google showed results.
4. Checked GA account: Google is giving traffic (reduced traffic by 90%).
5. Checked Webmaster Tool: Says all the pages are included in Google Index. (Google webmaster might not have been updated).

But when I think deeper on rest of the other checks I found they may be deceptive. It’s true that PR check is not a reliable way to determine whether a website is banned or not? Google Analytics showing visit through Google, this may be because of results might have not been updated in all the Google datacenters. And the Google Webmaster Tool might have not been completely updated and showing old ranking and statistics.

The only link operator check I could not find any reason to be deceptive. So my website is completely banned or penalized is hard to say at this moment. I will be able conclude is it really ban or penalty as soon as I find some updated statistics in Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. But till then I will have to wait and watch at Google’s mercy.

1xx Informational- Request received, continuing process.

• 100 Continue
• 101 Switching Protocols
• 102 Processing

2xx Success- The action was successfully received, understood, and accepted

• 200 OK
• 201 Created
• 202 Accepted
• 203 Non-Authoritative Information (since HTTP/1.1)
• 204 No Content
• 205 Reset Content
• 206 Partial Content
• 207 Multi-Status (WebDAV)

3xx Redirection- The client must take additional action to complete the request.

• 300 Multiple Choices
• 301 Moved Permanently
• 302 Found
• 303 See Other
• 304 Not Modified
• 305 Use Proxy (since HTTP/1.1)
• 306 Switch Proxy
• 307 Temporary Redirect (since HTTP/1.1)

4xx Client Error- The request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled

• 400 Bad Request
• 401 Unauthorized
• 402 Payment Required
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found
• 405 Method Not Allowed
• 406 Not Acceptable
• 407 Proxy Authentication Required
• 408 Request Timeout
• 409 Conflict
• 410 Gone
• 411 Length Required
• 412 Precondition Failed
• 413 Request Entity Too Large
• 414 Request-URI Too Long
• 415 Unsupported Media Type
• 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
• 417 Expectation Failed
• 418 I’m a teapot
• 422 Unprocessable Entity (WebDAV)
• 423 Locked (WebDAV)
• 424 Failed Dependency (WebDAV)
• 425 Unordered Collection
• 426 Upgrade Required
• 449 Retry With

5xx Server Error- The server failed to fulfill an apparently valid request

• 500 Internal Server Error
• 501 Not Implemented
• 502 Bad Gateway
• 503 Service Unavailable
• 504 Gateway Timeout
• 505 HTTP Version Not Supported
• 506 Variant Also Negotiates
• 507 Insufficient Storage (WebDAV)
• 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded (Apache bw/limited extension)
• 510 Not Extended

Brief Explaination of all the HTTP codes

According to Google:

This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.

Random Statistics Search helps you to get the facts about your desired topics and interests. But presently you will not see enough facts and data as it is as evolving stage. But probabilities are there that Google Internet Stat can be one of the useful things for user.

It has very simple design and structure. Till yet there are limited facts and stats. But this resource can grow to larger database of facts and stat as there is facility to submit a stat.

The wondering thing is here Google has hosted it in Google UK domain. There might be some official reasons behind this.

Current data sources have been mentioned in the bottom. With the Note:

Any links to third party websites are provided as a convenience to our users only, and Google does not make any representation, affiliation or endorsement of these websites.

TITLE TAG

Dos while optimizing Title:

• Short and unique title (I prefer to keep its length up to 80 char. I think making it too long will dilute the effect of title.)
• Making it keyword rich.
• Important keyword and key phrases at the beginning.
• Proper and shorter combination of multiple keywords and key phrases. (eg Buy furniture | Cheap Furniture | Furniture Online = Buy Cheap Furniture Online)
• Title should represent the content of the page.
• Do not waist your title character limit by having too much spaces and special characters in the title.

Don’ts while optimizing Title:

• Do not over stuff keywords in the title. (Having any keyword two times in a Title are more than enough).
• Do not have irrelevant Title with respect to content of the page.

META TAG

<META NAME=”Description” CONTENT=”Description Text”>
<META NAME=”Keywords” CONTENT=”Set of keywords and key phrases”>
<META NAME=”Robots” CONTENT=”nofollow or follow”>
<META NAME=”Robots” CONTENT=”index or noindex”>
<META NAME=”Robots” CONTENT=”archive or noarchive”>
<META NAME=”Copyright” CONTENT=”All Right Reserved 2009″>
NOTE: Do not use both NOFOLLOW and FOLLOW.

Writing Description Tips:

• Description should be unique with respect to all the pages in the website
• Keep it relevant to the content of the page.
• Better if follow character limit up to 200 (15-25 words).
• Try to add some important keywords and key phrases in the description.
• If possible repeat important keywords 2-3 times.

Writing Keywords Tips:

• Only add keywords those have been used in the content of the page.
• Keyword length should be 150 Char. (best used 6-8 words only.)
• Do not repeat same keyword as it is without any key phrase or alterations.
• Some Keywords may get repeated while using different key phrases but try making not to use more than 2-3 times.

Whacky and strange idea but proved to be ecological friendly. Need to be really appreciated.