Table Layouts Compared to Div Tag Layouts One crucial decision in the layout of a web design must be answered before the first character of code is written. The decision to use a Table based layout or to use Div tags in the creation of your site must be addressed beforehand in order to choose …
HTML and CSS Cheat Sheet
HTML Cheat Sheet Plus Many More Today I came across a website that offers a variety of cheat sheets or reference cards if you will. Among them were an HTML Cheat Sheet and a CSS Cheat Sheet. The website is called Added Bytes and is ran by a guy from the UK named Dave Child …
No DMOZ Tag
Prevent DMOZ Description From Showing in Search Engine Results Sometimes when looking at search engine results, the descriptions will be something other than the meta description or snippets from the site. In most cases, this is the result of the search engine showing the DMOZ description instead. If you have a site listed in DMOZ …
HTML 101 – Part 4 – Div Tags
How to Use Div Tags for CSS Layout? In our last lesson, we went over how to create navigation menus using lists. Our design to this point seems kind of bland and boring so we are going to cover some basic CSS styles so we can style our page and make it look more like …
About.com Reader’s Choice Awards
Enter Your Website or Nominate Other Websites for the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards About.com is having their annual reader’s choice awards. This is a chance to nominate a site or submit your site for a variety of topics. Topics this year include: Best Product Page Design Best Information or Content Best Use of Images …
Search Engine Optimization Strategies for Your Website
How You Can Rank Higher in Search Engines SEO companies can really enhance the performance of your search engine rankings. This can be a lengthy process depending on the competitive strength of your niche. It can also be an expensive process as well. What can you do yourself to make a difference in your rankings …
HTML 101 – Part 3 – Navigation List
Navigation Menus with List Styles This is our 3rd installment for our HTML 101 series. Today we will be adding the navigation menu for our website. We will accomplish this by creating a list menu. We will also create a placeholder page to link to from the navigation menu. Let’s get started. HTML List Styles …
Create an XML Sitemap for Your Website
What is a Sitemap? Before we jump straight into creating a sitemap let’s just briefly review what a sitemap is. Sitemaps are basically a map of your site. It defines the URL structure and helps search engines know what is contained in your site so search engines can find those pages. If you have a …
Google Local Listing Disappeared?
You Must Pay to Play in Google There have been a rash of blogs and forums who have noted a strange phenomenon of Google Local Listings not displaying their niche businesses anymore. These niches range from Web Design, Search Engine Marketing, to Real Estate. Apparently, according to Google, there was a glitch in a fix …
Google Results Bookmarklet
Nice Link Gathering Tool Here is a great tool I found that allows you to gather links for search terms in Google that you can use to help plan out a link campaign. It is a slick tool created by Liam Delahunty of Online Sales. He calls it the Google Results Bookmarklet. Check it out.
