The web has been evolving for sometime now. The implementation of different kids of ‘feeds’ is commonplace. You might have a flickr feed that streams to your website or have your RSS feed linked directly to your site, maybe even twitter streams off site via the Twitter API. Having feeds run through your site allows search engines to see that your page is being updated whenever you update the feed. This is just one of many ways in which a feed from an off site can help your search engine ranking.

Having an off-site feed stacked with relevant content that links back to you and and your organization can pay off huge. For instance, David Mihm has the system down perfect. By having the Google getFeed API, David has managed to stream three important off site feeds directly into his website. In those feeds he writes articles about how to improve search engine optimization and search engine ranking.

The idea behind a feed is to show the world that you have a lot of knowledge about what it is that you do. If I were a baker, my feeds could consist of recipes, ingredients, and foods. By streaming a feed into your site you give your audience more opportunities to not only experience what it is that you have to offer but to become part of your ever growing web of influence.

Now you might ask, isn’t that what I have my blog for?

You are absolutely right. However a few off-site feeds might be able to increase your ranking because major search engines will see that off-site traffic, which is relevant to your business, is linking back to your site. It’s really just that simple.

I’ve just finished writing this wonderful article about HTML5 (which will not be entirely support until 2021) and I realized that technology moves waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast. However, communication between people and various contents was sped up with the beginning of the ‘word-wide-web’, so its up to us as developers to stay ahead of the curve.

I think there are some really great new applications for web and web browsing (both on and off-line) to warrant a gradual shift to a new web standard. Although, most of us don’t really have the time to stay ahead of the constantly moving curve.

So stay sharp developers, search engine optimizers, and designers, the future has arrived and we have to make the time to keep up with it.

If you’re even the most novice of web designers you know that CSS is our bread and butter. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are what we use to apply graphics and layouts to XHTML, PHP, and .NET. I learned how to write CSS by hand however, there are some pretty amazing tools that can help you with your coding:

• SpeckyBoy.com: 50 Useful Tools for Generating CSS
• SmashingMagazine.com: 50 Useful Tools for Generating CSS
• W3Avenue.com: List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers

However, I must caution that you shouldn’t let a CSS tool replace your practical coding abilities. I’ve seen many a developer that was asked to custom build something when the relied too heavily on a tool for too long.