Thursday, August 19, 2010

Logic True Tables

I added a new page to hold a Glue Logic Truth Table covering each of the standard logic functions. The graphic already resided on the web site but was accessed by link to a graphic stored out on Picasa. So no new data was added, just moved onto a new page to hold the graphic. So far the new page is linked from the two other pages that had already pointed to the graphic; Definition of Triac [first term on the page], and the page on Glue Logic Timing.

So the Engineering Portal gets a new page, but at the same time it should be a page that will see little if any visitors. It's a common search term with no page text so maybe it will get some internal traffic, but should not see any from a search engine.

The point was not to generate a page which will never been seen. The original graphic was a 100k bit-map file stored out on Picasa, while the new file is stored on my server and only takes up 30k bits. So my server will see a 30k hit each time the page is viewed, it was zero while the pic file was stored off-site.

It's Google's view that a file on another server requires another DNS look-up [to find it] which slows the site down, and of course the new file is 70k smaller. Google started to also rate web sites on speed in addition to all the other things Google rates a site on. So this change makes the site appear faster to Google [a computer], but a visitor would never notice.

It's also better to have a picture embedded within the site and not just use a pointer out to some other server that holds pic files. The attached graphic is a pic of an AND gate and the true table for that AND gate.

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