If you’ve been thinking about using articles on web sites, you can do it the hard way, as I have been doing – writing them all for TerrysComputerTips.com, for my newsletters and for TerryStockdale.com. Or, you can get a head start with articles from one of the many article directories. These have author “biography/advertising” boxes [...]
Easy SEO Tips for Web Site Owners
Some easy Search Engine Optimization tips (SEO tips) for helping search engines find and understand your web pages: Use H1 header tags for your page titles. Sure, graphical images may be prettier, but search engines can not read the text in graphics. Search engines look at the H1 and the Title tag, both, as a [...]
Getting Better Web Site Statistics
One of the most important things to do, after you get your site initially up and going, is to watch your web statistics. You want to know which web pages are getting visitors, which sites are referring others to you, which search engines are referring people to your site, what search terms they used to [...]
I Hate IE7!
For an “improved web browser,” Internet Explorer 7 has much in common with a stubborn mule. No matter what you want to do, it doesn’t want to do it right now. If you happened to visit my Terry’s Computer Tips web site late this afternoon, you might have seen what I mean… I made some [...]
Sitemaps Rule!
Before switching my site to WordPress and the Genesis Framework from StudioPress, I had started using GSiteCrawler to create my sitemaps for Google. This program creates XML sitemaps in the open configuration used by Google (Google released this XML protocol under a Creative Commons license). Now, I’m really glad that I did. I saw a [...]
IE7 Bug: Bulleted Lists
I wrote the other day about the IE7 Center tag bug. IE6, Firefox 1.5.0.7, Firefox 2.0, and Opera all displayed the pages exactly the same. And, then IE7 came along… Bulleted lists were the first thing that I found that IE7 displayed differently from IE6, Firefox and Opera. IE7′s default indent for bulleted lists appears [...]
