Drawing on the Web

Andrew West has a very interesting article about using purchased web site templates in his Wongablog. After starting with a relative’s purchased site template, he finally bit the bullet and redesigned it using CSS instead of the tables design.

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 [...]

I recently 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’ve seen a significant increase in my search engine traffic. Plus, yesterday, Google, LiveSearch (formerly [...]

Do you post your email address on your web site? Almost all of us do — we almost have to do this — but that makes it easily harvestible by spammers’ spiders. There are some tricks you can use to make your email address available to visitors but not for the robot spiders… First, you [...]

In an earlier post, I wrote about my redesigned Computer for Christmas site. Since then, I’ve added my Computer for Christmas Blog to the site. In the blog, I write about the current issues for new computer buyers – whether they are first-time computer buyers or long-time computer users. Sometimes, these will be hardware-related. Others [...]

The “My SEO Tips” blog has a very interesting — and readable — SEO article about Google’s link analysis patent. Rather than forcing you to read through a convoluted patent application, full of the esoteric gibberish of patent lawyers, this short article presents some basics from the article. The most important point I picked up [...]