Friday Just For Fun Site – DQ’s Flame Blower Game
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) This is a pretty cool game by Dairy Queen. You have to register to play the game, but it’s a lot of fun (plus you have a chance to win DQ prizes). This is a great example […]
Elastic Columns in CSS
One of the things that it seems people are always looking for in the “look” of a website is fluid columns. That is a column that stretches the whole length of the page. In the past it has been done with tables, sometimes with the borders showing, sometimes not. The new style in web design […]
Suckerfish HoverLightbox Redux
Here’s a really cool way to put a slideshow on your site. This is a technique that I have loved to look at for quite a while now and have used other variations of it (The Hoverbox Image Gallery by Nathan Smith). Jon Christopher has taken that effect and others and put them together for […]
Tutorial Help For Photoshop and The GIMP
As a website designer I usually have customers who ask me to do some (or all) of the art work for them. Since I am not a graphic artist by trade I am always looking for tips and tutorials that I can use to make logos or other kinds of website decorations for my customers. […]
How Does Your Site Look On A Phone?
With more and more people surfing the Internet on their phones it becoming more important to know how your site looks on a mobile device. Here’s a good free tool to let you know just that. Ready.mobi uses industry standard tests developed with the W3C and leading mobility companies. Ready.mobi provides an analysis of how […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Flash Tron
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Remember the movie Tron where a boy gets sucked into a video game and has to play his way out? It gave birth to an arcade video game that I used to play. Here is an on […]
Promoting With Article Writing
One of the best free ways to promote your website and business and to add good content to your site is to write articles and to promote them on the many free article distribution sites available to authors. My best advise here is to always best to stick to writing about what you know about […]
Help With E-mail Marketing
E-mail marketing is probably here to say. Although the spammers tried their best to kill it e-mail can still be a very effective marketing tool. I really thought that RSS would quickly replace e-mail as “The” marketing tool, but it seems people are slow warming up to it. Maybe now that it’s finally being incorporated […]
Word of Mouth Promotion
There really is no better or more effective form of promotion than word of mouth. You can talk all you want about search engines, direct mail or e-mail, word of mouth trumps them all. What better way to look good to a potential new customer than to have someone that they know who is not […]
Keyword Density and Your Pages
I sometimes get copy from my customers to put on their sites that sounds like it is just stuffed full of keywords that they are hoping that search engines will find them for. Unfortunately most of the time it sounds just like that and makes little of no sense to the human visitor. I tell […]
