Archive for August, 2010

Google Tries To Enhance Its Local SERPs

Google always has a regular habit of making new changes or updates to the outlook of its web layout and result pages. Usually Google will experiment the new updates or changes in beta stage only in certain selective data centers. Now recently local search results have joined that beta testing list, with some creative and innovative modifications to its outlook. Google's willingness to experiment the local search results was first confirmed by Mike Blumenthal, a local search expert who shared...

Multiple Rounded Corner CSS Boxes Using a Single Image

In web designing, rounded corners play a vital role in various places. They not just look good but also allow one to create unique effects. There are many methods to achieve this effect. And, we have come up with a very simple, clean and reusable technique to create multi-sized rounded corner CSS boxes using a single image with drop shadow effects. In this short tutorial, we'll explain you on how to achieve this effect with a simple example. Before we proceed with this example, what we...

SQL Server 2008: IT to Business

In previous blog posts, we discussed on the new features such as dynamic development and pervasive insight in SQL Server 2008. In this post, we shall discuss on a fantastic feature - Reporting services in SQL Server 2008. As all of us are aware of the importance of reports at various levels and this feature in SQL Server 2008 is no exception. This feature helps in achieving and analyzing our targets based on the records available. Reporting services are embedded with SQL Server and we have...

Microsoft SharePoint Server- Part V

We hope that it is clear to all of us from our previous blog that the main purpose of enterprise search of SharePoint Server is to provide enhanced searching capabilities by gathering, querying, and indexing with support for SQL query syntax. We also enlisted the features available in SharePoint Enterprise Search with just a mention about its architectural components. We are back again to let you know the functionalities of each of its architectural components. The below picture provides us...