Is there a “Best Way” to build a site?
When designing a new site one of the questions asked most often is “Do I design my site for human visitors or the search engines?” I have always believed that if you build your site for the human visitor first the search engines will find you and reward you. There may be some things that […]
bytefx – simple effects in few bytes
Bytefx. A fast, lightweight and crossbrowser javascript library with some usefull and common special effect for your page elements. I believe all are open source and are easy to use lightweight applications. It’s a page well worth checking out. More..
Lessons of Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 19 has been declared “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. How do I know that? I read it on Matt Cutts blog. If you don’t know who Matt Cutts is, he is one of the first employees at Google. He also writes a blog that for us in the Search Engine Optimization business makes […]
How Much Do I Charge For SEO?
With Search Engine Optimization (SEO) nothing is ever guaranteed, so my first rule of thumb is to be skeptical of anyone who does guarantee you specific results. That doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t do it, but they may just be talking about a specific search for your name or some other obscure search term that […]
Free Webmaster Tools
iWEBTOOL has free Webmaster tools including seo tools. It’s a very good way to find out how good your website ranks. On this site there are: Google PageRank Prediction Visual PageRank Backlink Checker All-in-One Lookup Link Popularity PageRank Checker Search Engine Position Website Speed Test Rank Checker Google Banned Checker I would recommend that you […]
What Do You Need To Know About Building A Website?
I have seen many articles showing up lately on what a business needs to know before building (or rebuilding) a website. It seems like there is always more to think about than what you first consider. What I like to tell my customers is to concentrate on your core business. Get one thing right before […]
Using CSS To Replace Tables
Eric Costello has written A resource for web designers and developers who want to learn CSS layout techniques to replace archaic table-based web page layouts. There are many good pages about using CSS to replace tables all over the web, but Eric has collected the best ones and put them together in one place. I […]
Understanding CSS Specificity
Jonathan Snook writes a very good post about a subject that I find particularly tricky, CSS Specificity. This is especially true for external style sheets where the same style sheet will control many pages with different attributes. He presents a easy to understand solution with information on the different types of selectors and when and […]
CSS Tips
I guess that you live and learn, but Christopher Scott has written a post called “10 CSS Tips You Might Not Have Known About”. It’s something he wished someone would?ve told him when hefirst started designing in CSS. After reading the list I wish it too. There are some easy and sensible tips that I […]
Photoshop Tips & Tricks
I was looking for some Photoshop help the other day, well OK I was looking for some GIMP tricks actually. As you may know about me, I a big open source supporter and I use GIMP not Photoshop. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such […]
