Free Web Advertising…

As you know some of the best ways to get traffic to your site is through the search engines. And as you know search engines love blogs. If you know how to use blogs you can easily get more traffic to your website just by posting your keywords in the title and having your blogs [...]

Book Review: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

I finally found the web design book for which I had been looking. No, not an HTML book, not a CSS book, nor a JavaScript book. Not Web 2.0. Not Ruby on Rails or Ajax, either… It’s actually a book to lead we non-artistically skilled web designers through a quick graphics and art education — [...]

Good Web Design Practices

Your business resides on your web site — it’s like the headquarters of an off-line company. Therefore, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation [...]

Reducing Page Load Time by Optimizing Images

Optimizing images on your web site will greatly benefit your visitors — and you. The faster your site loads, the more likely the visitor is to actually look at it. Impatient visitors, and I haven’t met many patient ones (including me), won’t wait for large images to finish loading – they’ll go somewhere else. Better [...]

Why VPs Shouldn’t Do Detailed Web Design

There’s a great little article at the Sun.com (Sun Microsystems) web design blog today — all about web design by Vice Presidents (who ought to know better…)

Submitting Your Website to Search Engines

If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same [...]