For most people, web design is the design of the pages that everyone gets to see. However, your site’s web design goes far beyond just the pretty picture that visitors see. Your site’s architecture is also a part of that design. Why? As your designer is building your site, she will need to store information [...]
Having your web design developed around a series of tasks is a suggestion that has come out of, of all places, Google Adsense blog. I generally find that a lot of what Google serves up as advice is actually an attempt to undermine the efforts of SEO consultants. This time around, they are promoting what [...]
Incorporating site search into their web design seems to be the last thing on most webmasters’ minds these days, yet this one addition could be the one touch that makes or breaks a site. I recently wrote how site search could benefit the webmaster in their keyword research and touched on how it could help [...]
Have you heard of Bing Site Search? I am sure you have heard of Microsoft’s latest addition to the search world, Bing. What many may not realise is that, like Google, Bing has its own version of site search that web masters can add to their sites.
You have two options. The first is a basic [...]
How to scare of visitors in one easy lesson – insert videos that auto run. I cannot believe how many sites I see that have videos that auto run when the page loads. What is more incredible is that often there is more than one video that is loading and running – at the same [...]
SEO seems to have become the most important game in town to the extent that elements on web sites get ignored. Some take the attitude that true SEO incorporates every aspect of a web site including web design.
The reality is probably nearer the opposite, true web site management takes into account every aspect which [...]
Most web sited owners, businesses included, start life using shared hosting. You may have heard of dedicated hosting and wondered what the difference is and whether or not it is right for you. When should you move to dedicated hosting?
First, let’s look at the difference between shared and dedicated. As the name suggests, shared hosting [...]
The worst thing that can happen to any web site owner is to have their web site hacked. This can be done in any number of ways and sometimes it is not obvious to anyone. Google’s Webmaster Central Blog has some timely advice on web site hacking. It is certainly worth reading and I think [...]
A philosophy I come across occasionally from businesses wanting to enter the online world for the first time is the desire to have their web design looking like a glossy magazine cover. This works well for magazines sitting on at news stand, however, when it comes to the internet, these pages are difficult to optimize [...]
One of the least thought about SEO factors is web design, particularly the load speed of your pages and your visitors reactions. Search engines, particularly Google although the others will soon follow, are constantly looking at factors that determine a pages authority.
Authority is a word often discussed, but what does it mean? In simple terms, [...]