When you start out as a designer, you may decide to adopt a ‘make it up as you go’ approach. This can work for people whom have a very clear visualization of the site outcome and can work ‘on-the-fly’. Though, it is not recommended as you may end up with a site design that did not quite fit your intentions. Read More...
The H1 tag has been a component of SEO for some time, and we are still finding it useful as a factor in on-page optimization. Search engines use this piece of code to better classify the topic of the entire page, and recent testing (or retesting, since it has been tested in the past) shows that the H1 is still worth including, even if it means paying for extra coding or programming. Read More...
Since SEO became a core element of any web site campaign, and bloggers started to crop up from all over the world, tools to help content providers have just kept coming. When it comes to social networking, nothing maintains a blog with quality content more than discussions on a variety of niche topics. WordPress is still the top choice for blogs. Read More...
Sometimes text rollovers are not the only buttons requested for web pages. Rollover buttons with images for onmouseover and onmouseout states have been coded for some time. Dreamweaver is very useful for simple ‘point and click’ functionality here as it quickly sets up image rollovers. However, clean code needs minimum JavaScript and more xhtml compliancy; in other words, use CSS. Read More...
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one aspect of web development which can seem more like a burden than any other aspect. SEO is one of the most important things you can do to improve traffic, and revenue generated from your site. Here are five tools which will allow you to better optimize your site, and save you time.
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When you decide to start up a website, or even redesign an old one, there are some basics of design you’ll want to keep in mind. Everything from the appearance, to the navigation, down to the coding. When you look at it as a big picture, it might seem like a little much to handle at first, but keeping a few things in mind will help you skate through your new web design with ease.
The New Look
This is probably the most fun part of the design (at least it is for me), but it can very easily become the wrong kind of design for your site if you’re not thinking too much about it. Don’t get me wrong, you may come up with a beautiful design, but it might not be right for what you’re trying to project. Read More...
WordPress SEO: Control Search Engines – Tips about search engines and how to control them to get the best out of your WordPress content. Read More...
One of the issues that most people have with WordPress, or any blogging or content manager, is the lack of SEO support. If you don’t know what SEO is, then you may be a little lost. SEO stands for search engine optimization. To put it in laymen terms, it is basically ways to get your website higher results on search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. The idea is that the higher your web page is on a website, the more traffic you get, and the more traffic the more revenue. Here are two plugins that are essential for making for sure your WordPress powered site is SEO ready.
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June 30th 2008 was a day that Flash developers had been waiting for a long time; Google and Adobe had finally announced that Flash .swf files could be crawled by Google! In fact, the extensive news release from the Adobe Developer Center also stated that Yahoo would be incorporating similar technology in short order. When I read this news and the consequential articles from the web marketing community it became very clear that this update was a great step but far from the fix that some Flash developers are likely to pitch to their clients. As a result, I wanted to add my voice to the buzz on this topic and share with you my thoughts on how to optimize a site using Flash while considering the current updates. Read More...
I’m on a mailing list with a group of professional women designers and developers. There’s lots of conversation flowing and it occasionally turns very lively – as it did recently when a member posted about her frustration with CSS and continuing attachment to tables. It ignited a veritable firestorm of commentary! It was fun to read, but it did help me clarify a few reasons that I love CSS and think it’s worth the time of any web professional to learn it. Note I didn’t say ‘master’ it, because I don’t think there are a whole lot of people that can do that, but learning? That’s one of the reasons I’m in this profession, because I like to be challenged. Read More...