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Well I did it, just upgraded to Adobe Web Premium Edition. First I would like to say I love it. It is actually based on web standards and not IE6 which I am grateful for. But one thing I feel got “too easy”, that’s AJAX. I like the way Dreamweaver using Spry to build AJAX into your site, but there is one problem, one word JavaScript. Search Engines have been known to have problems with links and content generated by JavaScript. Don’t get me wrong, I love JavaScript, it’s a great client side scripting language, but with Spry I really feel it will be overused. 

Now that it is easy to build these “widgets” what stops someone from building all their content onto one page fed by an xml file? Not much except ignorance by which search engines will index the content.  I feel a lot of web designers clients are going to get hosed with regards to engine traffic once a very creative and non-technical designer get a hold of this tool. That’s ok, if everyone starts using this it will just get easier for others that understand SEO to rank well. This is like the Flash epidemic. 

I remember going to school and learning Visual Basic. It is a very easy language, but it was fun to make little cheesy programs, and I wrote a lot of them. Then I started to have dreams in programming laguages. It seems like I loved development in my sleep.

Last weekend my wife caught me talking in my sleep. She said I said “NO, Firefox!” I don’t know what I was dreaming of, but maybe it was from all the browser testing I did the last few days.

Anyone else have interesting, weird development or technology dreams?

I have heard of a lot of even well known companies being plagued by what is called “Google Hell“. Google calls it the Supplemental Index. This index was create for weeding out spammers. It looks for pages that are keyword stuffed, or duplicate content from original source pages. They have very good intentions, but this has been harming a lot of legit sites. All it takes is for Google to think you copied you content from another site and BAM there you page is in the supplementals. When really your site the original content and the other sites are the copycats.

When this happens to a page, whatever search terms your page ranked for is gone. And the problem is that the supplemental index is spidered a lot less than regular indexed pages. This means your page could be there forever unless you do something about it. Here are a few tips on getting out of Google Purgatory:  (more…)