Funny 404 Error Messages

April 13th, 2007

Web Design

Getting the dreaded 404 error message can be frustrating at times.   I know because I seem to find my share of them!   
CyberNet News has compiled a list of funny 404 Error messages that people use on their website.  Its definitely worth taking the time to read through. 
I’ve contemplated going with something like that on this [...]

Increasing Your Alexa Rank

April 4th, 2007

Web Design

Google SEO expert Garry Conn has been on a mission lately to increase his Alexa ranking. I’ve debated the value of Alexa here before, but regardless of its true value, its a strong factor in how much advertising revenue you can make on your website.
Dosh Dosh recently offered 20 quick ways to increase your [...]

Great Wordpress Video Guides

March 31st, 2007

Web Design

Hone Watson of ZePrez has created an awesome series of video guides that are designed to be like going to a Wordpress seminar.   In the videos you’ll find tutorials that cover all the Wordpress basics, and can be watched individually or in order.   Here are the topics covered so far:
What Is The Dashboard In The [...]

Web Design: Optimizing Your CSS

March 31st, 2007

Web Design

Cascading Style Sheets have been a crucial part of web design for awhile now, as they improve your websites performance by allowing caching of your websites style information, avoiding the need for a hard refresh every time a page is loaded. 
I’ve spent the last few days cleaning up the code on this site, removing the [...]

Improving SEO Results with a Robots.txt File

March 29th, 2007

SEO, Web Design

If you own a website, you’re probably a big fan of improving your search engine rankings.  There are a lot of ways to go about improving your rankings, and as usual JohnTP has you covered.    His latest post is about the importance of using a robots.txt file to avoid penalizing yourself with the search engines.  [...]

How Fast Does Your Website Load?

January 29th, 2007

Web Based Apps, Web Design

Are you losing readers because your website takes to long to load?  Maybe you have to many widgets slowing your site down?
If so, you can figure out what the culprit is by checking out the OctaGate SiteTimer.   Simply type your URL of your website and it will tell time everything for you, letting you [...]