Checked yesterday my blog stats to see browsers capabilities of my visitors. Chrome usage  is rapidly growing.Firefox share is almost reach IE.

• Internet Explorer - 37.41%
• Firefox 35.96%
• Chrome 18.38%
• Safari 4.40%
• Opera 3.00%

As part of my blog optimization i decided to start sharing some SEO tips, as i will go ahead myself to migrate my blog from custom made solution to open source platform.

So here we go: SE0 TIP 1 - Make your site to be discoverable by crawlers

A lot of time I am seeing flying magic done in flash or  cool JavaScript tricks and effects. If you doing it with your site, make sure to have ‘old fashioned’ links so crawlers can discover your content, probably not a lot of users will see your brilliant design if your don’t have proper navigation defined in html.

None of optimization tricks will work if Google,Bing,Yahoo will not be able to discover your content existence.

Original version is a little bit boring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8&NR=1

ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

ScottGu announced that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5.  You can download and install it from the following locations:

• Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
• Download ASP.NET MVC 2 from the Download Center

Today came across great article “TOP 10 SILVERLIGHT MYTHS AND THE FACTS TO BUST THEM” written by Jeremy LIKNESS from Wintellect .

Highly recommend to read it.

List of Myths from it:

• Silverlight is mainly for video
• Silverlight requires Microsoft web servers to run
• Microsoft tools for Silverlight are expensive
• Silverlight doesn't work on ... (Mac, Chrome, etc.)
• Silverlight is buggy
• HTML5 is going to kill Silverlight
• Silverlight is about smashing open standards
• It's hard to develop for Silverlight
• There aren't good materials to learn Silverlight
• There aren't many practical Silverlight application