Help With CSS
CSS can be a wonderful thing. It can take a plain ordinary page and turn it into a beautifully styled work of art. You can also change all of the pages on your site by simply editing one file. It can also drive you nuts. You go back and forth trying to get an effect […]
More Newsletter Help – HTML Email Tips
I have written before about how hard it is getting to get HTML emails through to your readers. The way email readers are today, especially on line readers like Hotmail or Yahoo Mail are very restrictive as to what they will allow their users to see. I have several customers who like to send HTML […]
What Are Web Standards?
I have written many times about how important it is to use Web Standards when designing a website. If you are wondering exactly what are web standards or where do I find them it may actually surprise you to know that there aren’t any Web Standards, only Recommendations. Until recently the web has been the […]
More Favorite Designs To Check Out
I quite often hear from people who are looking for good ideas to help them design or redesign their websites. I try to help by publishing my own section of favorite new sites on the web. Smashing Magazine has just published their list of “60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs” for this year. You’ll find […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest. The contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier visual illusion research community. More…
A Favorite New Site – Mellasat Vineyard
I have a page on my site with some of my favorite new sites that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of things that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these sites, they all look good, and are clear […]
Sensible and Practical SEO Advice
Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide is very sensible and practical in her advise about SEO. her new article “SEO Basics: “Click Here” is Evil” is just that again. Her advise it to never use Click Here as a link. Where ever possible you should be descriptive with your text links and use things like […]
Maintaining Your Email List
If you are running an email campaign then you probably have some hard choices to make about when to take names off of your list. Of course you are going to remove anyone that requests to be taken off, but how about those other undeliverable names? Mediapost’s Email Insider has an interesting article called “Losing […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Google’s Features
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Many of Google’s features in one webpage. Google accounts, maps, blogs, pack, desktop, pigeonrank, talk, toolbar. Being a big Google fan myself I spent quite a bit of time working (playing) with many of these tools – […]
Great New Tool – Website Optimizer
Here’s a new tool from Google that will help you to optimize your landing pages to get the best results possible from your AdWords campaign. For those of you who are not sure what a landing page is, it is the page that people go to when they click on one of your ads. Some […]
