November 7th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by admin
A Coming Soon page is a good thing to do from a search engine point of view. There are many advantages in a coming soon page, google tends to rank new websites higher in Serps rankings so instead of leaving your new domain empty or with bogus content you can place a coming soon page and as you get content for your site you can very easily add it, so ranking wise it can be a good thing for search engines and it can be a good thing for users. You can drop the annoying construction cones and you can add links to your other online homes like twitter or a feed link or you can add a sign up form so you can notify your users of an actual launch.
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Posted in: Web Design
Tags: best, best of the best, coming, coming soon, coming soon pages, pages, soon
September 7th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple banner animation using some text and an image of bananas. The bananas will move on and off the screen, tweening (creating transitions between frames) and changing the positioning and color.
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Posted in: Photoshop
Tags: animated, animation, banner, how to, Photoshop, psd, tutorial
July 9th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by admin
In case you don’t know jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. There are a lot of plugins on the web made by good web designers here are some very usefull ones . Read More…
Posted in: Web Design
Tags: contact form, download, free, jquery, plugins, round corner, script, sliders, Web Design
July 7th, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by admin
As the title suggests here are some awesome RSS feeds that any designer should subscribe to. Not too many of them just about 150 …or more. Enjoy! :D
Instead of having to subscribe to each site one-by-one. You can download the opml file here(the first 4 are not included).
Here’s mine: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/webmasterscorner Read More…
Posted in: Web Design
Tags: awesome, best design feeds, design feeds, feeds, hot design feeds, rss, Web Design
June 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
Major search engines, including Google, provide free tools for webmasters. Google’s Webmaster Tools help webmasters better control how Google interacts with their websites and get useful information from Google about their site. Using Webmaster Tools won’t help your site get preferential treatment; however, it can help you identify issues that, if addressed, can help your site perform better in search results. Read More…
Posted in: SEO
Tags: google, SEO, seo advice, starter guide, webmaster tools
June 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
Anchor text is the clickable text that users will see as a result of a link, and is placed within the anchor tag <a href=”…”></a>.
This anchor text accurately describes the content on one of our article pages
This text tells users and Google something about the page you’re linking to. Links on your page may be internal—pointing to other pages on your site—or external—leading to content on other sites. In either of these cases, the better your anchor text is, the easier it is for users to navigate and for Google to understand what the page you’re linking to is about. Read More…
Posted in: SEO
Tags: advice, anchor text, google, optimize, SEO, seo advice, starter guide, tips
June 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
Heading tags (not to be confused with the <head> HTML tag or HTTP headers) are used to present structure on the page to users. There are six sizes of heading tags, beginning with <h1>, the most important, and ending with <h6>, the least important.
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Posted in: SEO
Tags: heading, heading tags, optimize, SEO, seo advice, starter guide, tags
June 3rd, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by admin
Setting the value of the “rel” attribute of a link to “nofollow” will tell Google that certain links on your site shouldn’t be followed or pass your page’s reputation to the pages linked to. Nofollowing a link is adding rel=”nofollow” inside of the link’s anchor tag.
If you link to a site that you don’t trust and don’t want to pass your site’s reputation to, use nofollow
When would this be useful? If your site has a blog with public commenting turned on, links within those comments could pass your reputation to pages that you may not be comfortable vouching for. Blog comment areas on pages are highly susceptible to comment spam. Nofollowing these user- added links ensures that you’re not giving your page’s hard-earned reputation to a spammy site. Many blogging software packages automatically nofollow user comments, but those that don’t can most likely be manually edited to do this. This advice also goes for other areas of your site that may involve user-generated content, such as guestbooks, forums, shout-boards, referrer listings, etc. If you’re willing to vouch for links added by third parties (e.g. if a commenter is trusted on your site), then there’s no need to use nofollow on links; however, linking to sites that Google considers spammy can affect the reputation of your own site.
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Posted in: SEO
Tags: nofollow, nofollow links, SEO, seo advice, starter guide
June 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
Optimize your use of images :
Images may seem like a straightforward component of your site, but you can optimize your use of them. All images can have a distinct filename and “alt” attribute, both of which you should take advantage of.
The “alt” attribute allows you to specify alternative text for the image if it cannot be displayed for some reason.
Our alt text here is a brief but accurate description of the image
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Posted in: SEO
Tags: alt, optimize, robots, SEO, seo advice, starter guide, tips, use of images
June 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
Creating compelling and useful content will likely influence your website more than any of the other factors discussed here. Users know good content when they see it and will likely want to direct other users to it. This could be through blog posts, social media services, email, forums, or other means. Organic or word-of-mouth buzz is what helps build your site’s reputation with both users and Google, and it rarely comes without quality content.
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Posted in: SEO
Tags: optimize, quality content, SEO, seo advice, starter guide, tips
