As a web designer, I am often approached and asked to give advice about website design. Then I am asked to rebuild their website and am given a number of ideas of how they want their site to look. Usually I’m given a list of example websites that the potential client wants their website to [...]
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Writing an Effective “About” Page for Your Website
April 30, 2012 – Posted in: Marketing, SEO, Web DesignYou are making great strides on putting together your website. You have made the decision to either work with a professional web designer (I hope) or you have chosen to Do-It-Yourself (Good luck!). Now you are scratching your head, trying to decide what would be effective pages on your website. Where should you start first? [...]
Browser Updates
April 25, 2012 – Posted in: HTML5, Security, Updates, Web DesignDo you frequently check for updates to your favorite browsers? It is very important to me as a web designer to I stay on top of browser updates because I have to build web pages to accommodate the top browsers out there. With security leaks always an issue, and then HTML5 and CSS3 working its [...]
Let’s Talk About Backlinking
March 28, 2012 – Posted in: SEO, Web DesignBacklinking is probably the most important factor taken in to account when assessing your web pages for search engine rankings. Last week, I wrote about keywords and keyword phrasing being important to search engines. Check out the article, “Have You Overused SEO in Your Website?” In that article, I stated the importance of creating keywords [...]
Google Currents: The New Kid on the Block for Mobile Devices
March 25, 2012 – Posted in: Web DesignI found this article, “How to Publish your Blog or Website to Google Currents.” I found myself a bit excited for something new to share with all my clients and friends. Google is now offering a new service. It’s called “Google Currents.”It claims to take information from your websites or blogs & lets you view [...]
Have You Overused SEO in Your Website?
March 21, 2012 – Posted in: SEO, Web DesignAre you overusing SEO to boost your website content? Recently, I found this headline on one of the Site Promotion websites I visit periodically. It said, “Google Plans to Penalize Sites That Overuse SEO.” That’s definitely an eye catcher especially when you have worked so hard to get your website listed at the top of [...]
Who Says You Don’t Need a Google Profile?
January 13, 2012 – Posted in: HTML5, SEO, Social Networks, Web DesignAs a web designer, I do my best to make my websites hit the top of the search engine results. Let me tell you, it is a battle, especially when the rules are always changing! It used to be that all you had to do was input a “title”, “keywords”, and a “description” in your [...]
Looking For Internet Explorer/HTML5 Fix For
September 3, 2011 – Posted in: HTML5, Web DesignSo, I have been testing out the <audio> tag and am having some trouble. I see Remy Sharp’s shiv (http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js) which helps quite a bit for Firefox, Chrome, etc. However, I am having trouble getting the tag to work in older versions of IE. I’ve found that if I use the <embed> tag, it works [...]
5-Important Rules for Designing Your Website
August 28, 2011 – Posted in: Web DesignSo, you’re thinking of building a website, right. Perhaps you already have a website and you want to make some improvements. You should consider some very essential things before you go designing your website. Let’s discuss a few very important rules about designing a website that performs well. 1. DO NOT use splash pages! A [...]
Creating Fluid Web Pages using Image Borders
September 24, 2009 – Posted in: Web DesignThis week I have been working on a redesign of one of my web sites. The design of the website was acceptable by my client, but the desire was to maintain the same look of the page but make the pages more fluid. What this means is that the web page will shrink or expand [...]