Archive for June 2008

Website Accessibility

One of the things to keep in mind when developing a website is the level of accessibility your target audience will have when using your site. While it’s often easy to make nice-looking designs that appeal to your average teenager, it’s rarely easy to make a site that can appeal to those both young and [...]

Website Optimizations

When designing a website it’s important to keep in mind more than just the content and aesthetic appearance. A critical factor in website design is its performance. If a user is on a slower internet connection, pages with a lot of content and images may loading painfully slow, and this can detract from your users’ [...]

A failing industry? The death and decline of the web site hosting industry

I was reading through my favorite web hosting forum, webhostingtalk.com, where I came across a thread about this new feature Google has for measuring the popularity of a search term over the past 4 years. It’s called Google trends and can be found at Google.com/trends. Anyway, I was curious to the search volume of the [...]

Web host overselling tactics explained. How hosting providers offer so much for so little

The practice of overselling ones’ services is nothing new. Airlines oversell their available seats because they know that statistically at least a few passengers will not attend the flight they have tickets for. The passenger may miss his/her flight or they have canceled their plans last minute. The web hosting industry is no exception to [...]

Building web site backlinks to increase your search engine rankings. Off page SEO

Your search engine rankings are based solely on two areas. Your on page content optimization and the quality and quantity of back links your site has. A back link is defined as another website besides your own that is linking to either your main homepage or a sub page in your site. Your rankings [...]

On page search engine optimization. The most important web page factors

Search engine optimization is an important part of almost every web site on the net. Without search engine optimization, you won’t receive ANY traffic from the top search engines - which are Yahoo, Google, and MSN. If your web page isn’t getting traffic from the top engines, the cause is more than likely poor search [...]

600 Free Icons for web designers and websites - full size .png 3D and 2D

Are you finding that your website is becoming more and more boring each time you look at it? Try adding some of these icons into your design to spice up your pages a little.
Here is a sample of the 600 icons for your websites. These are all 3d and 2d style icons and are provided [...]