Holiday time over here in Germany has started and everyones beginning to leave the country. Although we have record temperatures here, the lakes and ocean are darn warm, it’s always nice to see something else. I’ll be moving off to St. Petersburg for about a week. I am not mentioning this to get you all watering your mouths - but I’d like to inform you with what’s gonna happen with the website during that time.
I will not be checking mails or comments on this website in any kind of way. I have my iPhone with me - but answering mails is definitely not in the package. 
This also includes support emails for iMap. I will continue to sell iMap over the time in which I am in St. Petersburg - but I will not answer any mails as well. Whether sales or support. Please excuse me if I am causing any inconveniences.
Thus, if your thinking of buying iMap, then feel free to do so but please note that you’d be buying it without any support for the next 10 days. If you think you will run into problems then don’t buy it. I’d rather have you wait, than receiving angry complaint mails about me not answering mails. You are warned!
Lastly, if you do have any iWeb problems, there is other help out there in the internet as well. iWebFAQ, led by Cedric, is a great resource with lot’s of wonderful information.
The image of St. Petersburg (above) has been cropped from it’s original available at the Wikipedia article.
Lately I have been getting quite a collection of emails telling and asking for help about warnings that people are receiving in their Google Webmaster Tools Account (GWTA). The warnings first warning is as follows:
All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site and doesn’t impact your site’s performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can’t tell which are more important.
This is an issue that comes up with the priority settings in iMap. It is quite stupid and I will be bringing out an update to solve this as soon as I can.
The second warning goes like this:
All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content. Because it is difficult for search engines to crawl and index dynamic content, this may impact your site’s performance in search results. Check your Sitemap to make sure that your site information is correct.
Now, this is something which I cannot control. Dynamic content is basically a normal webpage with some fancy scripts added to it. These scripts grab certain parts of other files and place it into the main page. This causes the actual page to be built up through lots of small and separate script pages. Google doesn’t like that as it only checks the main page, which of course doesn’t fully have the whole content. Bad! This is one of downsides of iWeb which also is the reason why you can’t run sitemap-generators on your site (and get all pages linked).
Though, as the warnings above are just warnings and not errors, they can be ignored for the time being. I will get rid of the first warning by bringing out an update to iMap - but you will just have to live with the second warning. Sorry people! 
Having just watched the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs, I am somewhat shaken by all the things that Apple has brought to us. It’s actually not that much - it’s just two things that were revamped. The new iPhone, dubbed3G iPhone. It is 3G and GPS-powered, it’s thinner and it’ll be available in black and white. Also pimped is .Mac, now rebranded as MobileMe. It’s basically the same thing as before, just with some new syncing features and stuff… I won’t go to much into talking about it as you can just read all about it on the Apple website.
Though there are three things that I want to touch on:
- The iPhone is all cool and looks better than ever. It’s available for just half the original price (200$). Totally rocking for new customers but those who’ve just bought the iPhone recently (like me) it’s a fucking kick in the ass. My iPhone basically has no more reselling value which is kind of sad. Though, I’ve known about the rumors so I guess I have to live with it…
- .Mac was never the coolest service that Apple has made … it basically sucked. With the new features that MobileMe offers, it does become quite interesting and offers things that are worth the money. Let’s see how it’ll go in the future.
- As MobileMe replaces .Mac, the question of the iDisk and the connection with iMap/iTweak remains in question. I think not much will change except for URLs but I’ll release an update for both when MobileMe becomes available.
I’ve collected 4 really sexy ads from Nintendo. I suggest you check ‘em out. Oh man - Can’t stop laughing!
It’s a long time since I have ever posted some new news for this site. I did mention quite a while ago that I was a bit confused on how to continue this site. It ended up that many of those comments on that post (and suggestions through emails) have helped me to get aimed into the correct direction.
One thing that bugged many, including me, was that the software pages weren’t put together that well and that it looks as if I don’t care. I wasn’t angry at that, I mean, the way I promote iTweak and iMap are surely not the best ways. The site really looks that I don’t care about iMap and iTweak, which of course is not the direction I wanted to be heading and needs to be fixed as soon as possible.
After having been so busy for the past weeks, I haven’t thought about my sites in any way, I am now on the way to getting things fixed. I’m not expecting to get everything finished completely in the next weeks as I still have lot’s of busy stuff coming up - but at least get started.
The first step will be the software site for both iMap and iTweak. The new site is Famside, which lends itself to being my software company. Along with getting the site out there, I’ve got updates for both iMap and iTweak ready as well. They will no longer be the small and ugly apps - but be powerful and look amazing with lot’s of great graphics and CoreAnimation. The futures coming…. 
