Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Well it’s September 19th again. If ye haven’t been “Talkin’ Like A Pirate” yet ye can start. ARRRRGH! Avast, when I first be hearin of “Talk Like A Pirate Day” I wrote me a small blog post. That turned into a bigger article that I be postin’ herein this site. Other swabs have been Googlin’ […]
Ideas For Creating A Custom 404 Error Page
In case anyone doesn’t know the 404 Error page is the page you get when a visitor types in an address or clicks a link that is not there. It could be a page that’s been moved, deleted or was never there in the first place. Most sites still have a generic error message that […]
Some Random Thoughts
When starting a new site try to focus on the big picture. Colors and design are initially more important than actual content. Decide on a logo and try to decide what your major navigation links are going to be and where you are going to place your navigation on the page. Don’t sweat the small […]
Color Combinations That You Should Not Use
I often send people to the COLOURlovers site to get some ideas for color combinations to use on their website. If you have never been to COLOURlovers to poke around it has so many great color combinations that I couldn’t count them all. One of my favorite pages there comes from nature. They recently posted […]
More Great Text Effects To Try
I am always looking for ways to make cool text and other images for the sites that I design. Having great image effects can really make a site stand out from the rest. I recently found a site called Design Vitality and they have a post called “51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See”. […]
Which Statistics Package Should I Use?
I read a post by By Kevin Newcomb of The ClickZ Network talking about “Comparing Web Analytics Packages”. There are many good ones, but before you compare or decide on a package you need to establish just what and how much information about your site that you are looking for. Do you just want to […]
Do Visitors Ignore Ads?
There’s a post by Jason Lee Miller on the WebProNews site called “If It Looks Like An Ad They Ignore It” where he suggests that visitors will skip right over a section of a web page that they think is an ad. They will do this even if that section only looks like an ad, […]
SEO For Images On Your Site
More and more search engines are giving pictures (and now video) in their results pages. Does that mean that their spiders are now able to “view” and index these files. I imagine that it is probably getting better, but they sill mostly rely on what you tell them that the image is about. There are […]
Time To Think About Christmas?
Well it’s almost Labor Day here in the US and so it’s time to start thinking about Christmas. Or is it too late? MediaPost’s Email Insider tracks all things related to email marketing and this year the emails with Christmas mentions have started already. They were seen this year as early as August 14. If […]
Some Random Thoughts
I don’t liked underlined words unless they are links. I think it confuses people. For emphasis make your words bigger,change the color, font or ALL CAPS or ANY COMBINATION. People should be able to tell when they have left your site. All of your pages should have the same “look”. Email newsletters are getting harder […]
