All Entries in the "Web Design" Category
How Not To Do SEO For 2009
Web start-ups face a daunting task of getting known. As of last count, over a billion pages literally litter the web. That’s a billion competing pieces of informtion swamping yours. Compound that with the short attention span of the average surfer. And the problem of ever shifting viewer loyalties. No wonder many netrepreneurs surrender and [...]
Webmastery 101: How To Cut Fat And Build Muscle
You’ve taken great care to present your website to the internet. You tweaked and fine tuned until you were satisfied that your design and layout showcased your content in the best possible way. Are you done? Do you just sit back now, churn out content and watch the traffic grow? In a word, no.
How To Get Free High PR Links
Many professional SEOs don’t give a damn about PR anymore, but that still leaves a big chunk of the web community pining for higher PR. Here’s a tried and tested way to get solid PR backlinks without having to pay for it. You’ll obtain:
a backlink on a highly ranked page
using your anchor text
in just a [...]
Add Digg Labs Products as a Screensaver
I still love Digg. Although not as much as I used to, when it was almost strictly technology based, I probably still frequent it, much more then any other website on the net. It still has the ability to bring almost each and every top story of the day, and do it before [...]
What’s coming with Wordpress 2.7?
After my long hiatus from blogging, one of the most exciting items I was looking forward to seeing was the upgrade of Wordpress from the lower versions of 2.0, up to the substantially different 2.6.2. Competely revamped interface, tag additions, theme preview, plug-in upgrades, on and on. They really have come a long [...]
Ugly Sites Make Loads of Adsense Income
If you’re a blogger living off Adsense, chances are you’ve tweaked everything from ad colors, placements and sizes. You experimented with heatmaps, placed icons next to ads and even bought Joel Comm’s overpriced adsense books. But yet, your ads just don’t seem to reap the revenues you lust for.
I share your pain. My idea of [...]
Validate The XHTML For A Whole Site In One Click
I got an email this morning from Shahar telling me about a XHTML tool that he’s released that I’m sure will prove very popular. Shahar has written a XHMTL validation tool that validates a whole site in one click, rather than a page at a time like other tools. This is fantastic as [...]
Speedup Your Website With HTML Optimizer Pro
I normally don’t buy applications like HTML Optimizer Pro, but I’ve been very impressed with the reductions it has made to the size of the files in my new theme, making my pages load even faster. In a broadband world you may question the need for products like HTML Optimizer Pro, but if you have [...]
Sexy New Theme For The Site!!!
It’s been a long time coming, and after recruiting two designers, but I’ve finally settled on a WordPress theme I like. This theme is by far the easiest I’ve ever used, especially when you consider how much functionality it has. It’s so easy to use that it only took me a few hours [...]
How To Whip The Competition In Organic Search Results
You know what organic search results are, right? That’s the listing that comes up when a user types in some keywords into google’s search box. It differs from PPC campaigns, such as the intrusive adword ads you see in the sidebar.
Middle last year, I’ve been experimenting with ways to increase clicks on my organic results. [...]
10 Insane Ways To Build Links
Are you white hat or black hat? White hat SEOs build inbound links at a steady pace and focus on quality, rather than quantity. Black hat SEOs take the opposite route and funnel in as many links as possible in a bid to create brand awareness.
They don’t care if their activities yield poor quality [...]
WordPress Blog And Server Optimisation Masterclass: Introduction
I’ve been blogging for nearly 3 years now and this site has gone from a handful of page impressions and dollars per day to around 600k page impressions and $15k per month. In that time I’ve moved hosts a few times, moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server, changed blogging platforms, tried numerous plugins [...]
Tag Cloud – Do You Have One On Your Site?
WordPress 2.3 added much needed tag support, but I haven’t seen a lot of sites making much use of the capability. One feature I haven’t seen many live examples of are Tag Clouds. I tried adding a tag cloud to my sidebar today, but I ran into a few problems which exposed problems [...]
4 Exceptional Commercial Wordpress Themes
Wordpress has not enjoyed a large community of commercial theme designers. You can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a free Wordpress theme, and most of the successful bloggers who do use a commercial theme paid for a one-off design, or had one made for them gratis. More and more CMS style [...]
Use Any Font On Your Site With sIFR
Most blogs/websites whenever they want to have some fancy text for headlines/nav usually resort to using an image. This becomes a burden whenever you want to change things, and isn’t as good for SEO as plain old text. Enter sIFR, a javascript method for using *any* font on a webpage with little to [...]
Joomla! 1.5 Stable Released
Two and a half years of development came to fruition today, when it was announced that Joomla! 1.5 Stable was made available for download.
Joomla! 1.5 is a major rewrite of the core Joomla! codebase, which was forked from Mambo on August 17, 2005. Joomla! 1.0.x retained a great measure of compatibility with Mambo, but Joomla! [...]
You Got Duplicate Content!
Google isn’t indexing your Wordpress blog!
And it could all be because of the duplicate content problem. Wait. But you know you have unique content… right? Write the best articles all you want, but the default Wordpress coding structure tends to be un-search engine-friendly- quite like the Joomla core. Observe how the archives, categories, [...]
W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft Of HTML 5
Yesterday the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) published the first public working draft for the next revision of the HTML standard, HTML 5.
HTML 5 is backwards compatible with HTML 4 and XHTML 1, but will no longer support some of the SGML elements of HTML 4. In addition to HTML syntax, HTML 5 will support [...]
Be The Master of Your Social Network
Being a member of Facebook, Myspace and Linked In can be fun… but hey the novelty eventually wears off. Besides, why be a mere member when you can build your own online community for professional, cash-chugging purposes. A social network easily becomes a vehicle for any marketing, advertising or linking endeavor. Want to have your [...]
ColorblindS Wordpress Theme
While content is king, most of us give quite a bit of thought to our presentation. After all, the look of our web site is a big part of establishing our brand, and we also want a design that is optimized for readers, crawlers and advertisement.
Early on when I was still using Wordpress it really [...]
