Getting Inbound Links
Making your site have more value with search engines has always included inbound links. These links from other sites to your pages have always been considered a “vote” for the value of your page. Why would some site owner link to your page(s) and risk sending a visitor from their site to yours unless they […]
More Cool 404 Error Pages
A 404 error is an error that you get when a page that’s requested can’t be found. Either you’re typing an address that was never there or the page was taken down or moved. Through the main htaccess file you can direct your visitors to a page that you made instead of the generic 404 […]
Youtube Vs. Self-hosting Debate
There is an interesting debate going on at highrankings.com about whether it’s better to host your own video’s or use Youtube and embed the video into your page. I have always recommended to my customers that they use YouTube or Google Video to host their videos and embed them into their pages. There are a […]
Happy CSS Naked Day
Once a year is CSS Naked Day. Even though this it the fourth annual Naked Day, I have considered it, but chickened out the last three years. This year I have removed all CSS from this website, stripping it entirely of its design. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and […]
Browser Wars, Part Whatever
Not too long ago I wrote about how it would be nice if we could get rid of IE6 on the web. Recently the more I’m reading about browsers the more I think that IE in general is losing the war. Several years ago when Microsoft pushed Netscape off of everyone’s computer it was declared […]
Simple can be Good
When I stand up to talk about my business at my networking meetings of of the first things I say is that many vendors will try to sell you the most complicated system that they can. This is true for websites, inventory management or almost any system that a business will buy. For websites there […]
Design Your Site For Todays User
Back in the good old days (mid 90’s) you didn’t even have to consider what a visitor were using to view your site. You viewed everything in Internet Explorer and made it look good in that. My friends used to think I was nuts for wasting my time looking at my site with Netscape. Today […]
What To Send In A Newsletter
I had a customer who wanted to start an email newsletter last year. I installed a mailing list management program and then spent quite a bit of time explaining how I thought sending it should be done. I wanted to pass that information along so I wrote a series of posts on how to start […]
More On The Value Of Social Networking
It never fails. I start to write or wonder about a particular subject and then articles and blog posts start to appear as if by magic. I’m sure it’s just bacause I’m more tuned in to picking out the ones that I’m thinking about from the crowd, but I also wonder if the Law Of […]
Is Social Media Worth The Time?
I have had an account on FaceBook and LinkedIn for quite a while now, but only recently have I started to use them. I also thought about Twitter, but decided that I really only have the time to concentrate on one of them. I picked LinkedIn for that because I thought it was geared more […]
