Brian Feener

Sorry I’ve been slow on the upkeep around here. I’ve been torn between my 9-to-5 and Vinny The Bull (WHICH by the way has a new post today AND a crappy bull I drew in Photoshop).

So today, excuse me for my brevity,but today I had to learn about the difference between hyphens and underscores in Google.  I’ll never explain it better than Matt Cutts does in his blog, so I’ll let him explain…

Lots of computer programming languages have stuff like _MAXINT, which may be different than MAXINT. So if you have a url like word1_word2, Google will only return that page if the user searches for word1_word2 (which almost never happens). If you have a url like word1-word2, that page can be returned for the searches word1, word2, and even “word1 word2″.

Easy as pi, right?  Do yourself a favor and read the full post.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

It’s the difference between web design and web architecture.

Design= what you see

Architecture= Form+Function

For the comments, what did you learn today?  Anything at all.

I was updating my main website today and put something called Spring Widgets on it so that I can aggregate my feeds into one central location.

I showed my buddy Mills, who said “I would want to customize it a little more.”

While, yes, it would be nice to have really custom, perfect widgets for my site, I got these in 15 seconds.  And then I’m done. 

Sometimes it’s better to go custom.  Sometimes it’s better to go now.  What other factors are out there to take into account? 

Add your thoughts in the comments.