This issue recently came up simultaneously on several of our websites built using the super easy to use Adobe Business Catalyst CMS. It's a great system for getting sites up and running quickly, but sometimes it takes a minute to figure out how to fully customize everything to your own...
Here is an old SEO question... Which is better for improving a page's ranking in search engines--dashes or underscores? The difference between dashes and underscores for SEO for Google is fairly small--a second order effect--not a primary factor in ranking, but there is a difference which should be...
In Drupal, it is fairly simple to create alphabetized lists of content items. The approach that I am about to describe is just one of a few ways to do just this--perhaps one of the easiest, as it comes straight out of the box. Create a custom content type We would recommend creating a custom...
Website owners and designers can provide instructions to search robots to deny or provide access to specific parts of their website. It can be helpful if you have specific pages or sections of a website that you do not want to show up in search results. The practice can be abused as well, as some...
Let's say you built a website locally and need to upload the whole thing to a remote UNIX / Linux server, but your site is quite large with numerous files, which would take a while to upload. Also, sometimes uploading a copy of a website can be tricky if you miss a file and forget to check the...
Google is releasing an update to GPE that allows users to bring together two great platforms for development: Android and App Engine, which will allow developers to host their backend service and store their app data on Google's cloud service. Project Creation for App Engine-connected Android...
by Jonathan Franchell, CEO of Ironpaper - For more tips and hacks: Need to remove a new line after h1 tags? Both web designers and SEO practitioners need to employ headline tags: H1, H2, H3 in several ways to improve web page structure and tag content with varying degrees of importance. You may...
Microdata has been a particular focus area of the HTML 5 development. Essentially, microdata ( is a meta data ) that allows designers to create annotations for content in formats that are machine-readable. Microdata contains name-value pairs grouped together and dubbed "items". Microdata items have...
Link relations is a way to explain why a resource is be linked to as well as build an understanding of the relationship between data. Common uses of link relations in web design are linking to a stylesheet, image or a javascript file. HTML5 expands the concept of link relations even further by...
There are a number of web design solutions that can cause problems for search engine optimization (SEO). Here is a small list of very common problems that designers should be aware of when setting the initial, foundation for a longer-term SEO marketing practice. AJAX based web pages: Ajax is a...