Blogrank
What's Blogrank?
If you use Movabletype .. and you are bleeding-edge nerd ... and you want to get your blog ranked so the new-car-smell cool new 2005 version of medlogs lists you as one of the best ... you can follow these directions to get ranked. What's it do? You'll have to wait and see. But the sooner you get votes .. the more you'll have .. and the more you have ... ;-)
I'll write up directions for blogger and typepad and wordpress etc sometime .. but for now ... try this .. and if you don't understand this stuff .. then it's probably not something you should do yet.
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(well .. no-one's gonna do this .. code removed for now .. not-yet-ready for prime-time)
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Usability
Don't you hate websites where you click on a "score" or "rank" or something and you have to submit a form .. so it brings you to a page where it says ... "got your vote, thanks" and then you have to go back .. ugh.
Solved that problem here .. with an elegant solution: http 204 header. huh? The server says "no one is home" so the browser says OK and doesn't load the page. But the server sees the request for a page .. and can read the URL variables and plop them into a database. No round-trip for the poor user. Kinda like the old "gif as a datapipe" trick .. but much easier to implement.
