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Opening Links in New Windows
2007-08-02 18:58:00 I’m hoping to make the Web Usability Tip a weekly feature. Each week, I’ll shed insight on a different topic related Web Usability. This week, I’ll be discussing links and links opening in new windows. Internal Links Everyone has a different take on links and where they should open. I think we can all agree that most internal ... More About: Windows , Opening
Difference Between an OK Backlink and a Great Backlink
2007-07-31 19:24:00 What is a Backlink? Simply put, a backlink is a link from an external website to your website. When the Google Search Engine bot spiders a website, it factors in how many and how good links that are pointing towards your site. Google sees this as credibility and this is likely to influence your Search Engine ... More About: Great , Difference , Ferenc , Ween , Diff
Flash Sites Need Spiderable Content
2007-07-25 19:11:00 Imagine this, you’re a Web Design er or Graphic Designer straight out of college, you’ve bought yourself a domain (with your name in it of course) and some hosting. You’ve been taught quite a bit of Adobe Flash and put together a gorgeous portfolio site. You search yourself on Google a few weeks later, your page ... More About: Sites , Content , Object
Building an Online Game Community - The Right Way
2007-07-24 04:22:00 This is a follow-up to the last article where Fury was used as an example of a game where it’s trying to build an online game community, but ends up doing a poor job. You’ll find that the game I’m about to describe and Fury had a lot of the same initial attributes. Instead of ... More About: Building , Community , Online , Game , Online Game
What is my Domain Name Worth?
2007-07-22 01:43:00 No, I’m not talking about MY domain name, I’m talking about what yours can possibly be worth and where you can find information and where you can find a pretty good idea at what your Domain Name is worth. Please note that I’m speaking about Domain Name s and not fully designed established money making sites. A ... More About: Worth , Wort
Everyone Should Have iGoogle as Their Homepage
2007-07-18 18:51:00 Just a quick tidbit, for those that may find the name unfamiliar, iGoogl e was recently (April 2007) renamed from its original project name: the Google personalized homepage. The best description I can give of iGoogle is that it’s a personalized homepage. It can do everything you can ever want from a homepage and can do ... More About: Homepage , Everyone
Everyone Should Have iGoogle as Their Homepage
2007-07-18 18:51:00 Just a quick tidbit, for those that may find the name unfamiliar, iGoogl e was recently (April 2007) renamed from its original project name: the Google personalized homepage. The best description I can give of iGoogle is that it’s a personalized homepage. It can do everything you can ever want from a homepage and can do ... More About: Homepage , Everyone
Harry Potter Spoiler Creates a Web Marketing Opportunity
2007-07-17 05:02:00 I actually stumbled across this find by mistake. I almost wish I would have thought of it sooner, because I imagine there’s a market there for people buying shirts to ruin someone else’s reading experience. I remember back when the previous book came out that people were running around with Snape kills Dumbledore t-shirts. What the ... More About: Marketing , Harry Potter , Opportunity , Spoiler , Potter
Why Won?t My FLV?s Display?
2007-07-15 22:30:00 This is possibly the hardest problem to troubleshoot, because without knowing the reason why it’s not working, you can’t really pin-point a solution, troubleshoot or explain your problem on a web forum. So tell me why: Why won’t my Flash Player load my FLV online? Here’s what you probably did: You created an new SWF file You inserted the ... More About: Display , Problems , Adobe Flash
Making a Favicon.ico
2007-07-12 18:41:00 What is a Favicon .ico? A Favicon.ico is an icon file used to replace the default website icon in the browser. Favicon is short for Favorites Icon. In Firefox, the default icon is a blank page, as seen in the following picture: A customized Favicon.ico will appear in the browser’s window beside the address, in addition to in ... More About: Maki , Makin
Testing Your Website On All Versions of IE
2007-07-11 01:23:00 Why? This is an extremely important factor for any website layout. Your website needs to work on as many browsers as possible and needs to look good on as many browsers as possible. Disappointing a specific browser population is not something you want to do especially if you’re looking to appeal to the masses or profit ... More About: Website , Web Development , Testing , Version
Building an Online Game Community - The Wrong Way
2007-07-10 06:12:00 This entire blog post is about how a game development company shot themselves in the foot, perhaps without even knowing it. I’m seeing it first-hand that what they’re doing is severely crippling their long-term plan for success, especially in terms of their online community. I’m doing this because I care. I do not have a ... More About: Building , Community , Online , Game , Online Game
The Only Firefox Add-On You?ll Ever Need
2007-07-08 18:36:00 I’ve been using this gem of a Firefox Add-On for a few months now. It gives me everything I can ever want from a Web Development point of view. Now, this blog post isn’t one of those paid User Reviews or anything, this is me letting readers out there know how amazing this is and ... More About: The O
Top 10 Search Engine Optimization SEO Tips
2007-07-07 01:12:00 10 - Set Your Title Attributes on Your Links Title attributes, when set in your “<a>” tag, is what’s revealed when a use mouses over your link. As pictured below. It may appear excessive to code but this little attribute can be used internally within your site to throw in a few keywords into an ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Tips , Search , Search Engine , Optimization
Where To Buy The Cheapest Domain Names
2007-07-04 19:07:00 Before I start, I want to mention that there is little difference between one registrar and another. Commonly known domain name registrars are intermediaries between you and the main domain name registrar. This leaves the intermediary to charge whatever they want. I’d say the average domain name registrar charges $8.95/year, but this can easily go upwards. ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Ames , Where , Names
SWFObject Strange Validation Problem
2007-07-04 05:02:00 Warning: Expected ‘:’ but found ‘undefined’. Declaration dropped. If you have no idea what SWFObject is, you can find an article here. Chances are, if you use SWFObject and you care about having a site that validates, you will come across this very minor problem. If you’re new to validation, don’t worry. This isn’t something ... More About: Validation , Problem , Strange , Range
Flash People Need To Know This
2007-07-03 01:24:00 As you may or may not know, because it is likely you do all your design on a Macintosh computer, Microsoft has rolled out an update that seriously cripples how Adobe Flash works in updated Internet Explorer versions. Users with Internet Explorer 7 or an updated version of Internet Explorer 6 need to be prompted ... More About: People , Object , Adobe Flash , Lash
Search Engine Optimization for WordPress Part 1
2007-06-29 19:17:00 It can’t go without saying, WordPress is a godsent of an open-source program. It is (in my opinion) the best option for running your own blog on your own server. There are so many options, plugins and widgets and the Search Engine Optimization features that are built in are top-notch. Now some of these options ... More About: Wordpress , Search Engine
Optimizing Your HTML Tags for Search Engines - Part 1
2007-06-29 04:50:00 Let me start off by saying that optimizing your HTML tags for Search Engines is almost entirely different then optimizing your site for readers. The reason I say almost entirely different, is that, how a Search Engine searches your site is very similar as to how a user with a screen reader would see or ... More About: Wordpress , Tags , Part
An Introduction
More articles from this author:2007-06-28 04:59:00 I felt as though I should start everything off with an introduction so you can know the man behind the blog. I’m a graduate in Graphic Design at Algonquin College. I currently work at a downtown advertising agency here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Although I’ve done work in print, my area of specialty is definitely web-based. ... More About: General , Introduction , Intro 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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