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I’m hesitant to say “social media” as the phrase is now associated with sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook, and other major social websites. However, social media on the internet used to simply consist of forums and similar entities.
All webmasters who are passionate and actively participating in their niche should be able to find some [...]

Note that this article assumes that your website has not been optimized yet. If you have already been actively optimizing your website, you’ve probably done these things already.
1. First, you should think about what keywords you want to optimize your site for. With no clear goal, you won’t be able to optimize your site. Be [...]

The JPEG format was created to be used with photos. The GIF and PNG are competing formats that support lossless data compression.
JPEG
The JPEG format is generally used in websites to display photos or realistic art that have a smooth transition between colors. Text, logos or modern art that has sharp color contrast create visible artifacts [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As my SEO Basics: Understanding PageRank post explains, links are very important. Basic link building for new websites that have little history is simple. Article submission, RSS feeds, Directory Submission, and viral link building tactics are standard practice. Although there are various unscrupulous ways to build links, as time goes on, Google will eventually crack [...]