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...
Google has replaced the old Google Base API with a new shopping API, which will allow eCommerce focused users to contribute content and products into Google's databases and build web applications from Google's databases. The shopping API program was intended to be the next generation of the Google...
Link building is an essential part of SEO, but many businesses try to find the quick and easy approach, which can often cause more harm than good. Google believes that both content and link building should be focused on quality, relevancy and good usability. The practice of SEO unfortunately, as of...
XML site maps are an alternative approach to site maps. In general site maps can help both search bots and humans gain a better understanding of a website--especially a complex website or an eCommerce system with a broad assortment of products. XML do have some specific advantages over the more...
Creating and designing HTML emails and newsletters can be quite a frustrating experience. Perhaps the largest problem with HTML email design is the broad range of devices and software which render and read email messages from Outlook, Mac Mail, to free email clients like Hotmail and even mobile...
This article provides a simple example of using CSS to create rounded corners. Below you will also find the definitions for how to use CSS rounded corners in your own CSS. This CSS property is not full supported by Internet Explorer, but more contemporary browsers do support this property. Here is...
By default, Wordpress will convert your straight quotation marks into curvy quotation marks (Smart Quotes or left/right quotes). This function makes the quote marks much prettier than straight quotes, but they have a fundamental problem. When someone tries to cite your blog post or if you are...
The Facebook Like Button is a very useful and rapidly popular social web marketing tool that can be applied to websites and webpages. By default, the Facebook's Like Button form will recommend a specific web page that is hard coded into the code snippet (which can be generated by Facebook's Like...
HTML 5 will usher in a whole host of new possibilities for developing without the need for plugins such as Adobe's Flash Player. Thoughts on plugins like Flash Player Whether or not Flash is on the way out remains to be seen. There are compelling arguments for the elimination of Flash from a web...
HTML5 brings a lot of new and exciting features to the web design community. Web design blogs have been filled with discussions of HTML5 font native support and web video/audio support. A lot of other features deserve your attention as well, such as the canvas elements, CSS 3 transitions, and font...