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Futurebazaar.com is back in a fresh new avatar. It no longer looks bland and boring but bright and attractive. The site has been redesigned and now has a lot of flash and a background colour so to say.

First of all, my old password did not work. I have made multiple orders from futurebazaar.com but was unable to login using my password. I had to use the forgot password feature to login to my account. But guess what ?

Even the old password didn’t work. Now i have praised futurebazaar.com in some of my earlier reviews, but they have essentially killed their website if a person cant even login to the site.

Also while browsing certain products, i got error pages and blank pages. I don’t even want to send an email telling them about their site errors. The last time I did that, I got an email from them that its working at their end (forgot the golden rule of businesses).

The new site is buggy and un-navigable, at least today it is. So they really need to get their act together to retain customers.

I went over to a friend’s blog, and i was surprised to see the links having a tooltip which was actually the thumbnail of the site it was linking to. What a perfect way to know beforehand what the site you are going to open looks like , the service was being provided by snap.com. They have a cool domain name no doubt , but hows their service ? , I checked out the site and i was really impressed. The only thing which may deter people from using this service is the fact that the tooltip must have a link to snap.com , anyway all free services have backlinks these days. You can see the script in action on

Ankit’s Life and Technology Reviews

I did not deploy the script on this blog as i still am looking if something better comes along.

Another one of my favourite things , the meta refresh tag is a powerful tool. A common meta refresh command will look like

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”600″>

This command is put in the tag of your document. the tells that the tag is meta. The http-equiv=”refresh” sends a command equivalent to the HTTP refresh command which tells the browser to refresh the content. 120 is the time in seconds after which the page should refresh itself.

A further modification of this command exists :-

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10;url=http://wisetechie.com”>

Here instead of the page refreshing you to same URL , you are in concept redirected to a new URL.

Use these tools wisely my friends

I dug this from yahoo’s site

Yahoo!’s Web crawler recognizes standard HTTP result codes. The basic types of redirect recognized are:

• 301 - Permanent Redirect
• 302 - Temporary Redirect

This means you should keep the delay as low as possible , 0 seconds i recommend if you want search engines to think of your refresh as a hard redirect. That way SEO doesnt suffer.