Web Design
Fixing Transparent Images In Internet Explorer
As a website proprietor I want everyone to come to my site. First of all the traffic validates my labor, and second I hope to make some income. A lot of time is spent on design. We want people to find our websites intuitive to navigate and easy on the eye. Once we are satisfied [...]
13Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 22 comments | ContinuedSome Tips For Setting Up Your Sitemap
XML sitemaps are used to help search engine crawlers do a better job of finding and prioritizing all of your content. It doesn’t guarantee that your pages will be indexed, but it does assist the crawlers in determining what content you don’t want indexed, and what content you would like to see a higher priority [...]
11Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 7 comments | ContinuedPreview Of New Eureka WordPress Theme
It’s been a long time coming, but hopefully the new Eureka WordPress Theme will be live on the site tomorrow for everyone to test. Alex the designer is making some final tweaks, which I think will be put us in good enough shape to let you all lose on the theme.
If you want to [...]
Chatter For Free
I’m flabbergasted at the startups on the web these days. Many tend to be silly and serve no use. Others actually hold golden promises that deliver. One application of the latter flavor come to mind: Chat With Me Now. It’s an Outlook plugin similar to Meebo.com and bristling with features.
Chat With Me Now
Tips For Getting Your XHTML To Validate
Getting your website’s XHTML and CSS right ensures that your site will function properly for all your users. As web browsers change and (hopefully) become more standards-compliant, it becomes even more important to have good markup on your pages, lest you face a headache trying to fix it later when your site no longer works [...]
25Nov2007 | Michael Lankton | 16 comments | Continued5 Ways to Drive Me Away From Your Blog
The blog explosion that the internet has been enjoying (or cursed with, depending on your point of view) reminds me very much of the initial internet explosion in the 90’s. There are blogs for whatever tickles your fancy, some of them very close to the best commercial websites in their niche, others little more than [...]
19Nov2007 | Michael Lankton | 40 comments | ContinuedShould You Get SEO-Certified?
In addition to my dull day job, I’m author/editor of at least five blogs. When I’m not blogging, I do part time SEO Consulting work for companies to sharpen my skills. The clients never stop coming but I sometimes wonder: should I get SEO Certification?
I toy with this thought because certification might consolidate reputation and [...]
Migrating From Wordpress to Joomla, Part 1
Recently I migrated my main site from Wordpress to the CMS Joomla. While evaluating the potential of leaving Wordpress for a CMS, I found lots of information pertaining to migrating from various CMS’s to Wordpress, but little to no information about moving a site away from Wordpress. There were some web forum threads regarding such [...]
6Nov2007 | Michael Lankton | 20 comments | Continued



