Jul 30 2008

Web Design: Proper HTML, XHTML, etc

Proper usage of HTML and XHTML is very important for websites. Although your website may render properly on your browser with incorrect markup, different browsers treat different errors in HTML differently and you site may look horrendous to visitors on other browsers.
Below is a tool to validate your markup code.
W3C Markup Validator is a service [...]

Jul 29 2008

Announcement: 7/29/08

Our posting may not come out as frequently in the next few days as we add more areas to our site. Articles are nice  but often people need tools and resources to help them with their websites.
Without further ado, the following will be completed in the following days:

Glossary of terms
Compilation of useful tools and software
Web [...]

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Jul 28 2008

Web Design: Planning

The planning stage of web design is very important. Many people regard it as unecessary paperwork and ignore it. However it can save you a lot of time to have a clear purpose when designing your website, and it can save you a lot of time.
Structure
Unless you are building a site using a software or [...]

Jul 26 2008

Web Design: Pages for the Footer

There are alot of pages that you don’t want to waste your valuable navigation space for, yet you still need to include on your website somewhere. These pages include: a privacy page, a disclosure page, a disclaimer page, an about page and a contact page.
Although the About and the Contact pages should be included in [...]

Jul 25 2008

Web Design: Foveal Vision in Relation to Creating Banners and Logos

Foveal vision is the sharp central vision necessary for humans to read books, watch TV, drive, or browse websites. To optimize creatives such as banners and logos, a quick web related understanding of foveal vision is very useful.
Foveal Vision on the Web
The width of most peoples foveal vision is the width of about five words. [...]

Jul 24 2008

Web Design: Navigation Menus

Generally, in web design, there are three main types of navigation menus. Theres the type that goes across the top of the content, the type that goes down the left side of the page, and the type that goes down the right side of the page. Generally, in good web design, you don’t want to [...]

Jul 23 2008

Special Topic: Why Blog Commenting Doesn’t Work

With all the people still commenting on blogs in an effort to publicize there website, it seems appropriate to address this topic. Blog commenting simply isn’t a viable way to publicize your website.
Blog Commenting’s Origins
What is blog commenting for? It’s for interested blog readers to voice and comment, opinion or discuss a blog post that [...]

Jul 22 2008

Special Topics: Dealing with Travel

One of the issues with content intensive websites is that even if you are away on vacation or simply staying overnight at a friend’s house, you may still need to update your content, especially if you have a commercial site that requires maintenance. Most people can get by with just borrowing their friend’s computer but [...]

Jul 21 2008

Image Usage: 2 Ways to stay Big and Beautiful

Many people showcase beautiful images on their websites (maybe you do too). Be it big wallpapers or high resolution photos, the viewer is taken aback by its beauty AND its loading time.
There are many ways for webmasters to deal with this issue and several are listed here, excluding image compression. After all, it’s big and [...]

Jul 20 2008

SEO Basics: Permanent URLs

Permanent URLs are an important part of SEO. With permanent URLs, you can convert your file type in the future and it won’t affect the ranking and traffic of your pages.
The premise of Permanent URLs is that if you change an about.html page to an about.php page, all those backlinks you have generated through your [...]

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