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 […]
How To Fix A Bad Site
There’s an article on the SiteProNews site By Ayat Shukairy called “9 Ways to Improve Bad Website Design”. She talks about things that I have said on my “Philosophy” page. That the best websites are made to be more clean, simple and easy to use. There is a time and place for some of the […]
How-to: Secure a Wireless LAN
In the past few weeks I have had a couple of people ask me the question “How secure is a wireless network?” I have also seen a couple of posts on Craigslist asking about this. It turns out that most wireless networks are not very secure I just browsed my own wireless utility and found […]
Ways to Promote and Market Your Site
I am always looking or good and effective ways to promote my site. When I find good ones ideas I try to pass them on to my clients and to you. Many of the best techniques seem to be pretty obvious, but you would be surprised at how many people will overlook them. As I’ve […]
Great Link Building Tips
Recently I wrote an article called “SEO is Really Pretty Simple” where I talked about getting a better page rank and how to do that is by getting other high ranking pages to link to you. Page rank is the scale of how valuable your site is considered by the search engines. The higher your […]
Refer a Friend
One of the simplest and most effective form of promotion that you can do for your business is to have one of your customers refer one of their friends. Just the fact that the recommendation is coming from their friend and not from you gives it much more weight in the friend’s eyes. There are […]
Cool Photoshop Trick – Image “Jumps” Off The Page
Here’s a very cool trick that can be used in Photoshop or “The GIMP“. You can make your pictures appear to come right off the page. This post describes how to make it in Photoshop, but I’ve tried it and it works pretty much the same in “The GIMP“. For those of you who don’t […]
What To Do About Blog Spam
I advise all of my customers to have a blog. I think it one of the best things that you can do to help yourself get better search engine rankings. There are several good reasons for having a blog: Having new content on your site if one of the best things that you can do […]
CSS Drop Down Menus
Craig Erskine of solardreamstudios wrote this post about how to make a drop down menu with simple CSS. I like drop down menus and to do them in CSS is a good thing, but because, “Internet Explorer does not recognize the psuedo class :hover on any element except the .a tag” There has to be […]
