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Why I Design on a PC Instead of a Mac
2007-10-05 21:14:00 I figure it’s about that time where I write a controversial article about a hot topic. Recently, Macintoshes have been having increased sales, especially amongst students. Not too long ago (less then a year), I was a student in a Graphic Design program. In a program that was naturally flooded with Macintoshes, I used a ... More About: Web Design
Promote Your Website With A Contest
2007-10-03 14:46:00 Darren Rowse, blogger at the famous Problogger, a blog I follow religiously, is celebrating his birthday in style. He managed to gather $54000 worth of prizes through sponsors alone. He’s a prime example of how you can promote your website with a contest. Over the course of 6 days, Tuesday, October 2nd through Monday, October 8th, ... More About: Contest , Website , Promote , Romo , Mote
Bookmark Yourself and Don?t Feel Guilty About It
2007-10-01 19:50:00 When you start your first blog, who’s going to find it? It’s silly to assume the “if you build it, they will come” ideology. It’s also silly to assume that producing great content is the only way to get an amazing increase in visitors. Your personal network of online friends and real life friends might be ... More About: Bookmark , Feel , Guilty
Using ?Click Here? as Link Text - The Debate
2007-09-29 17:31:00 This week’s installment in the Web Usability series will discuss the two main ways to link text. What this article does is compare the use of links like: Click here for car parts versus links like: Information on car parts. Just as a small reminder, this article may be contradicting statements I’ve made in ... More About: Debate , Link , Text
10 Web Design Quick Tips - Part 1
2007-09-26 18:42:00 I recently noticed that my Web Design category on my blog was severely underpopulated, especially for someone whose day job is to be a Web Designer. I’ve decided to compile useful tips (in no specific order) that are useful to any web designer out there. Since this list can go on forever, expect follow-ups. ... More About: Tips , Quick , Part
My Blogging Schedule And Upcoming Posts
2007-09-24 18:43:00 For some of you subscribers out there, I figure this may be a good time to iron out what my blogging schedule looks like. This makes it easier on everyone and you all know what to expect from me. Occasionally, I’ve invested my time and actively participated in blogs only to find out that two weeks ... More About: Blogging , Schedule , Posts , Upcoming
Why You Should Validate Your Website
2007-09-21 18:57:00 In this week’s installment in the Web Usability series, I will be discussing website validation and why it’s crucial for every web developer to practice this. If ever you were a non-believer in validating your website, hopefully this article will convince you otherwise. After a brief introduction on how to validate your website, I?ll ... More About: Website , Web Development , Vali
Why I NoFollow The DoFollow Movement
2007-09-19 19:07:00 Very clever title, I know. The following article will likely be one of my more controversial blog posts. I’m not against negative responses (or positive responses :)) as long as you refrain from personal attacks. So far, I’ve downloaded the DoFollow plugin, and uploaded it to my server. I have not activated it through WordPress’s Admin Panel and I will tell you why. What Is The D oFollow Movement? The DoFollow Movement is a movement where its blogging participants choose to eliminate the rel=”nofollow” from their commenters’ websites. Removing the rel=”nofollow” from your outbound links (<a></a>) allows the link to be counted as a “vote” in Google’s PageRank system. As a result, it’s possible that your commenter’s website will get additional PageRank which may result in higher Search Engine Result Placement (SERP). To my knowledge, most blogging platforms (Blogspot, WordPress, etc.) include thi... More About: Nofollow
Search Engine Optimization for WordPress - Part 3
2007-09-17 18:47:00 In Part 1 of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for WordPress, I discussed content and directory structures. In Part 2 of the series, I discussed how to avoid duplicate content. In this edition, I will be discussing a broad range of topics. How To Link Between Posts The title attribute in your link tag (<a>) is a great place to throw in some keywords that can benefit your destination. When linking to different pages or categories, you should be using a great title attribute as well as great link text. Bad Example: check out my post on car parts by <a href=”http://www.pat-burt.com&rdquo ;>clicking here</a> Good Example: check out my <a href=”http://www.pat-burt.com&rdquo ; title=”car parts blog”>post about car parts</a> The good example uses the title attribute effectively and has great link text. It is EASY to do this. It isn’t hard. When adding a link using WordPress’s WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, g... More About: Wordpress , Search Engine
7 Tips To Make Your Website?s Navigation More Usable
2007-09-13 18:52:00 In this article on our series detailing web usability, we will be discussing your website’s navigation and how we can improve it in terms of usability. How well your navigation functions is sometimes over looked by Web Designers and Developers. It’s very important because if a user finds it difficult or time consuming to navigate your ... More About: Website , Tips , Navigation , Make
Ad Revenue Driven Websites - Step 5 - Execute
2007-09-11 19:05:00 In this week’s installment of the Ad Revenue Driven Websites , we’re going to talk about the general execution of our website. Please note that I will be referencing a previous article where I discussed milestones. At first I was thinking of avoiding a simple “Now do your project!” article, but after some reflection, I, myself, ... More About: Step
CSS Elements Different Sizes in IE and Firefox
2007-09-10 03:21:00 It’s happened to all of us, once upon a time, we might have coded a perfectly valid CSS and HTML file, only to find discrepancies between your website when displayed in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox . (If you want to easily test your website across multiple browsers, I have an article on testing on various ... More About: Elements , Troubleshooting , Element , Diff
Things You Should Know About A Website?s Fold
2007-09-07 18:55:00 In this week’s series about Web Usability, we will be dealing with folds and what you need to know about them. Knowing about your fold can help you with ad click-throughs, general design and web usability. It gives you the needed knowledge so that you can appropriately place elements on your website. Let’s start ... More About: Website , Things , Fold
10 Tips For A Smaller CSS File
2007-09-05 19:09:00 Not only will these tips help reduce the file size of your CSS file, but they’ll also speed up your coding if you prefer to do some of your CSS by hand. Alot of the changes I mention, individually, will reduce your CSS’s file size by tiny minimal amounts. However, all of these changes start to ... More About: Web Development , Tips , File
Ad Revenue Driven Websites - Step 4 - Plan Your Execution
2007-09-04 18:42:00 In the last article of the series, I discussed steps to help you choose your idea for an ad revenue driven website. If you’re new to the series entirely, you can have a look at the entire section devoted to developing your ad revenue driven website. This week, we’re going to talk about planning the ... More About: Websites , Revenue , Step , Plan , Execution
A Minor Facelift
2007-09-03 06:42:00 I gave the blog a really minor design facelift today. Understandably, the older version was a lot simpler because I hadn’t had a chance to play around too much with WordPress because I launched the blog. Now that I have a good handle on it, I played around with it some more. If you’re curious, ... More About: Facelift , Minor
4 Tips To Help Get Readers To Stick Around On Your WordPress Blog
2007-09-02 20:10:00 Great content isn’t the only part of the recipe to getting visitors/readers to stick around and read your WordPress blog. Sometimes, readers need a little help to keep them reading articles and getting involved with your content and articles. When readers stick to your blog, it may help build a reader base and RSS subscribers. This ... More About: Wordpress , Readers , Tips , Blog , Stick
How To Change The Way Your Website Is Printed
2007-08-28 22:08:00 Once upon a time, someone wanted to print a website you’ve coded and possibly, designed. This could have been because you needed a hard copy for a client to review the content or because you needed a hard copy for yourself. Regardless, after you picked up the printed pages from the printer, you noticed that: Your ... More About: Website , Web Development , Change , Chang , Chan
Search Engine Optimization for WordPress - Part 2
2007-08-27 18:48:00 This is a follow-up to Part 1 of Search Engine Optimization for WordPress where I discussed optimizing your content and your directory structure. In Part 2, I will discuss how you can avoid duplicate content which is a pretty straight-forward strategy to making sure Search Engine s such as Google doesn’t interpret some of your content ... More About: Wordpress
Where Do I Get Backlinks?
2007-08-24 19:02:00 Someone recently sent me an email asking me how I got so many Backlinks in such a short period of time (the domain name is only two and a half months old). I thought it was a great question, so I’ll elaborate in this article. If you’re newer to Search Engine Optimization, I wrote my interpretation ...
10 Tips For Solving CSS Problems
2007-08-22 19:01:00 Some of us have been through this on multiple occasions, you type out some CSS code, go look at your website, and lo and behold, it doesn’t work. That, or your website appears to be working for a few weeks, but then you check your website at your friend’s house on a different browser, and ... More About: Tips , Problems , Troubleshooting
Fixed vs Fluid Website Layouts
2007-08-20 19:01:00 This was a topic brought up by several commenters regarding the appropriate width and height for webpages during last week’s installment in the Web Usability Series. Some posters noted that “Designing web sites for fixed width is a pretty dated approach now-days.“, “Fluid will fit regardless of desktop or hand held device resolution.” and “Fluid templates will solve the problem of different screen resolutions.” I will approach this comparison as unbiased as I can, but personally, I do prefer designing websites with fixed layouts. What is a Fluid or Fixed Website Layout? Before we jump into the comparison, I’ll go over what each of them mean really quickly. A Fluid Layout is a website layout that expands (or compresses) with your browser window’s width. A Fixed Layout is a website layout where your website’s size doesn’t change as your browser window’s width increases or decreases. If you’re a more visual ...
Ad Revenue Driven Websites - Step 3 - Choose Your Idea
2007-08-18 20:13:00 In this week’s installment of Ad Revenue Driven Websites , we’ll be looking at selecting what idea to run with after you’ve Developed Your Idea s. The guidelines for selecting your idea are generally the same as the steps taken to develop your ideas. I will discuss some more general criteria for selecting your idea. Here are ... More About: Step , Choose
Validating CSS: filter in Firefox
2007-08-18 20:13:00 If you’re like me and you’re using the Web Developer toolbar, you like it when your site validates in it. If you’re looking to do some AJAX/Javascript effects, for example, where a semi-transparent color (I call them blankets) are put over a background while you pop up a member login, you’ll need to use the filter ... More About: Firefox , Filter , Troubleshooting , Dati , Vali
How Tall and Wide Should I Design My Website?
2007-08-15 20:37:00 It seems that this often comes up in discussions, talked about by amateurs and professionals alike. Sometimes, you just aren’t sure what the best dimensions (width and height) should be for the website you’re designing. You could be designing a content-driven site, or you could be designing a one-pager using Adobe Flash, whatever you’re ... More About: Web Design , Design , Website , Wide , Tall
How Tall and Wide Should I Design My Website?
2007-08-15 20:37:00 It seems that this often comes up in discussions, talked about by amateurs and professionals alike. Sometimes, you just aren’t sure what the best dimensions (width and height) should be for the website you’re designing. You could be designing a content-driven site, or you could be designing a one-pager using Adobe Flash, whatever you’re ... More About: Design , Website , Wide , Tall
Ad Revenue Driven Websites - Step 2 - Develop Your Ideas
2007-08-13 18:56:00 In this week’s installment of Ad Revenue Driven Websites , we’ll be looking at what happens after Step 1: Brainstorming. By now, you should have a piece of paper (or .txt file) full of ideas. Not everything you written down is specific or well-thought out. This is the step where we do just that. You should ... More About: Ideas , Develop
How To Optimize Your Body Text For Readability
2007-08-09 18:42:00 If you’re running a text-intensive website, like a blog or article listing, there should attention paid to how well your text is read. The easier it is for users to read your text, the likelier they are to stay and read content. Please note that when I’m referring to “how easy it is to read ... More About: Body , Text , Opti
Optimizing Your HTML Tags for Search Engines - Part 2
2007-08-08 18:50:00 In Optimizing Your HTML Tags for Search Engines - Part 1, I went over the importance of H1 and Title tags. For this part, I will talk about additional important HTML tags. The main reason anyone should ever optimize their HTML tags, which I explained in Part 1, is that a Search Engine spider is not ...
Ad Revenue Driven Websites - Step 1 - Brainstorming
More articles from this author:2007-08-07 04:28:00 The Ad Revenue Driven Websites series will be a series of articles detailing the steps towards creating a website that’s being put up solely for the purpose of making money from ads (or affiliate programs). This series coincides with a project of mine of the same nature. I’ll try my best to make the info ... More About: Step , Brainstorming , Ming 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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