It’s wise to test your site as you’re building it. Check your pages for accessibility, for validity, for appearance and function as you go along. Don’t wait until you’re finished to think about things like valid code and accessibility.
Even when you do those things as a normal part of your process, you still need to [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Give every page the minimum nutrients for proper growth.
Every page needs a descriptive title. The title should give the name of the site and the page contents something like this: How to Nuture Your Web Pages: Web Teacher.
Every page needs headings and information that explain what the page is about.
The page content must be focused [...]
Centering Images with CSS is a quick and easy tutorial.
The Webstock recordings are online. These are the February 2009 event in Wellington, but older Webstock material is still available, too. Excellent speakers and topics.
How to Conduct Live Polls Via Twitter and SMS is a great tip for speakers and teachers. It explains how to use [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Jill Whalen is a leading expert in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) and the head of High Rankings. Meet Jill Whalen.
Q: Tell us a little about your background and training before you became the woman behind High Rankings.
A: Since I started online in the early 90’s I didn’t have much background [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Everyone has heard of search engine optimization, right? But have you heard of findability? I hadn’t, until recently.
The term “findability” seems to originate with Peter Morville, who published a book called Ambient Findability in 2002. Blogger DonnaM wrote about it in 2004 in Usability testing for findability. Jakob Neilsen wrote about it in 2006 in [...]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
GIMP 2.6 Alive and Well on the Mac at Burningbird may just set you free from Photoshop.
How to: CSS Large Background at Web Designer Wall provides some good tips.
Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters at the Google blog talks about how Google discovers, crawls, indexes, and displays search results.
Vitamin Training: How to Grow and Nurture Your [...]
Have you followed any of the links from this blog to BlogHer? Perhaps you’ve noticed that the search feature on BlogHer now has a Lijit logo in the search box. Under that, you see two options. Search blogher.com or search the BlogHer network. If you search the BlogHer network, you find posts on your search [...]
TechCrunch reports that Adobe is providing Google and Yahoo with the technology to search and index Flash files. Flash websites will no longer be invisible to the search engines. Well, that certainly changes things. Now that Flash won’t be the whipping boy of web design, in the same category as table-based layouts, we have a [...]
I spent some time this spring in Taos, NM. There the cultivated and the uncultivated were both in full bloom. This is what kept me busy for eHow this month.
How to Get the Most From an Indeed.com Job Search
How to Find an Internet Based Call Forwarding Provider
How to Place an Icon after a Link
How [...]