Eighty percent of Australians live within 80 miles 

of the sea;50 percent of the country’s houses sit

less than 8 miles froma beach.When Sean Godsell

Architects began its latest experimentwith an

ecofriendly, rectangular residential form, the
Glenburn House, it naturally built a first prototype

on the coast. Theprecursor to this scheme, the St.

Andrews Beach House, located on apeninsula south

of Melbourne, is raised up on stilts above the dunes,
oriented at right angles to the sea, and acts as a

telescope to the horizon,where sky and ocean meet.

At Glenburn, a rural area 90 minutes northeast ofMelbourne,
the relationship between the house and the water is reinterpreted. The
box is presented as a ship slicing through swells of earth. Instead of facing
water, here the house’s long, northeastern flank provides views from
the living areas and the guest room to the distant heights of Australia’s
Great Dividing Range—the mountains that separate the populated
eastern littoral from the desert interior of the island continent.

This entrance cuts
through the plan along a central axis
and leads to another opening, which
allows access to that long gully earlier
glimpsed. Inside, the program of the
residence should be simple—the
living, dining, sleeping, and bathing
areas are meted out within a rectangle—
and yet,much as the procession
to the house plays with your perception,
the interior is equally surprising.

What is The Concept Behind CSS?

The concept behind CSS (a.k.a. cascading style sheets or style sheets) is really simple. CSS allows you make changes to all of the web pages that link to the CSS file at once by changing a style in the style sheet, instead of having to manually change every style in every HTML file.

CSS allows you to create a single document of code, similar to an HTML file, that lets you specify the colors, fonts, backgrounds, etc. of a web page. The CSS file is then linked to from the web page(s) that you want to have the same styles that you specify.

If CSS did this and only this, they would save you a lot of time to say the least, especially if you have a large or multiple web sites. This alone is worth learning CSS, however, style sheets allow you to do this and much more.

CSS also allows you to:

• position text and graphics precisely where you want to
• add rollover effects to links
• control the spacing between letters, lines, margins, web page borders
• specify the units such as centimeters, pixels, points and more
• hide content from certain web browsers in certain situations. An example of this is when you have some content that you want to appear only in your web pages, but not in print.

In the end, CSS can save you a lot of time and effort and is very easy to learn.

 

 

 

There's no doubt, one way links work for search positioning. But, have you considered that what works today may not work in the future? One exciting aspect about search engines is that nobody really knows everything. That leaves room for webmasters who are willing to research, test, and put into practice the best search engine optimization techniques.

These five rules for one way linking can help steer you in the right direction.

Rule #1: You have to be proactive. Google considers a high quality link something you have to earn. You earn these links by partnering with sites. In order for a partnership to work, you have to develop a relationship. I think more webmasters are open to establishing vital community relationships. It takes trust and a lot of patience for these relationships to build. Focus on what you can do for someone else first.

Rule #2: Keep an open mind. High PageRank still lingers in most webmasters' minds. But, by concentrating on high PageRank sites, we miss out on other linking opportunites. Most of us understand that PageRank doesn't happen overnight. That's why it's important to seek out lower PR, high quality sites. The advantage is that these webmasters are more open to establishing partnerships.

Rule #3: Site age is a big factor. I've put together my owning ranking system for evaluating a site's linking "worthiness". One big factor is site age. Any site that has been around since the late 1990s is going to have a higher "score". These sites have weathered search engine updates, bad economies, and bad press. All else being equal, I tend to lean towards site age as the determining factor for a potential link partner.

Rule #4: Stop worrying about what you can't contol. I get questions all the time from people wanting to know if they can re-design their sites, or link to other sites, or change hosting companies. They want to know if these activities will ruin their search engine rankings. My response is always the same: do what's best for you and your customers. Don't NOT do something because you're worried it will ruin your SEO work. If you have a solid customer base, your search engine rankings won't be as crucial. The viral aspect of the web is extremely underestimated. Search traffic is only one source of traffic.

Rule #5: Can you be trusted?. Having a solid client list, establishing relationships with other webmasters, provding great customer service. These activites are all based on trust. Can you be trusted to follow through? If you are trustworthy, your link building will be trustworthy. If you're in it for the short term, like all spammers, then you can't be trusted.

The web is wide open for those webmasters who are willing to develop relationships for the long run. In the future, one way links will be graded on trust. So, you need to ask yourself, am I trustworthy? It's give and take. Are you willing to give before you can take?

Blogging has become a popular way to make a bit of money and make yourself known as an expert in your particular niche. But too many bloggers think they can just put up any old site, write a few posts, and watch the money come rolling in. This is not likely to happen for most people.

If you want to really make money with your blog, it needs to be organized and well-written. Do you want a few tips on how to make your blog better? Keep reading to find out how you can have a better blog in just 7 days.

Day 1: Get Organized. Get a notebook that you can keep on hand to jot down possible topic ideas as they come to you. Create a folder on your computer that's dedicated to your blog writing. You may even want to make special bookmark folders in your internet browser for different websites that can help you (e.g. one for sites about blogging, one for other blogs in your topic, one for research related to your topic, etc.)

Day 2: Think about your readers. Who is reading your blog? Male or female? What age? Where are they from? These factors should all affect the style of your blog and your writing. For example, certain people may not like an informal writing style, while others may be put off by a professional style. If you know your audience you can cater to them. Also, think about what types of things your audience needs and what type of information they don't have. Knowing this can help you come up with things to write about or affiliate programs that you should think about promoting. Make sure you're writing all of this down either in a notebook or in a file on your computer. You don't want to forget these ideas.

Day 3: Find similar bloggers. Spend about an hour looking for other blogs that are similar in topic to yours. Pay attention to what sort of style they use. What are you going to do to make your blog unique? Can you create a niche-within-a-niche? Bookmark all of these blogs in a special folder so that you can visit them frequently. It's good to keep tabs on what other same-topic bloggers are writing about. You wouldn't want to miss a time-sensitive piece such as a news story. You also can use these blogs to study what affiliate programs others in your niche are promoting.

Day 4: Keyword research. Today you should research keywords. Do this using a keyword research tool. Your job is to find keywords within your niche that are large enough that people are searching for them, but small enough that there isn't too much competition already. Make sure that you write down all of these keywords, even if you may not use them for awhile. You never know when inspiration might strike.

Day 5: Brainstorming. Get out that notebook (or open that Word file) and start writing your ideas out onto the paper. Don't censor yourself. Everything is OK here. Nobody but you is going to see this. Once you've got your main ideas down, see if you can break them down any further. For example, with this article, I thought "How can I make my blog better?" then I wrote down each of the ideas. This made it much easier to actually sit down and write the article.

Day 6: Do your research. Do your blog posts need additional research? Today's the day to focus on that. Take a look at your brainstorming lists from yesterday. See where there are holes and fill them in with a bit of research. It's going to make tomorrow much easier.

Day 7: Get writing! Today, write several blog posts and store them on your computer. These should be very easy to write because you have followed the steps in the previous days. If you write a few articles in one day, you can post them throughout the week without spending much time each day. This streamlines the process and makes it much easier.

Some of these steps may seem unnecessary to some people, but I assure you that doing all of them will only make things easier for you. In just 7 days you can get organized and start writing the blog masterpiece that I know is inside you.