The Best CMS Website Builder Apps

Posted on April 18, 2013 by
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The internet is exploding with website building services. Who knew there were so many alternatives to WordPress and Drupal? Here’s my list of notable ones. Continue reading →

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Online Designer Portfolios | How to best showcase web and graphic design

Posted on January 2, 2012 by
Online Designer Portfoliios

The cobbler’s kids have no shoes. And so it goes for many designers and their online portfolios. They’re so busy designing for their clients that they don’t have any time to design their own portfolio. In this article: 8 Designer Communities that offer personalized portfolio web pages, 19 Tips for Designing your Custom Portfolio Website, and Showcases of the Best Portfolio Design Continue reading →

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How to create a Facebook Tab Page with Fan-Gating

Posted on July 28, 2011 by
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If you have a Facebook Fan page, you can create additional pages within the Fan page called tab pages. Additionally, fan-gating techniques let your provide fan-only content and encourage visitors to “like” your page. The new way to create fan pages is with iframes. Continue reading →

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How to Create User Centric Web Design for Better SEO

Posted on July 14, 2011 by
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Should you base your website’s structure and page content on what search engines want, or what website visitors want? The answer is that they are one in the same. Search engines want to give their users the best match to what the user is searching for, so creating User Centric Design makes sense for SEO (search engine optimization). Continue reading →

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How has Google changed its search results page?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by
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The goal is to be on Google’s first page of search results, which shows 10 slots for non-paid, organic results. Recent changes include special result categories, in turn reducing the available number of traditional results slots available on the home page. You now have to be in the top 3 organic search results in order to ensure first-page exposure. Continue reading →

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Preparing photos for websites with free Aviary.com tool

Posted on April 11, 2011 by
girlsOnDots

If you’re a non-web designer who posts photos to blogs or CMS websites, this video will teach you the basics of preparing photos for the web so they load fast. You don’t need Photoshop – a free online tool called Aviary.com Phoenix image editor will do the job nicely. Continue reading →

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Creating a Content Slider using jQuery, HTML and CSS

Posted on April 6, 2011 by
Content Slider

Having an image slider is an effective home page tool. But my clients lately have been stressing fast uploading time. With an image slider, the images are rather large. To reduce load time, I’ve altered the image slider into a content slider. It just took a few changes to Soh Tanaka’s code to use divs instead of imgs. Continue reading →

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WordPress 2010 Weaver Theme

Posted on September 17, 2010 by
themescreen

My favorite theme is based on Twenty Ten and is called 2010 Weaver 1.3.2 by Bruce Wampler. One feature that is a must is compatibility with WordPress 3.0 menus. Another is an easy to use Admin Panel to adjust colors and css. Here’s the theme’s description. Continue reading →

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Creating xhtml and css starter files to jump-start building web pages

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

You know how some people have a signature that they put in everything they produce? For Hitchcock, it was a small walk-on role starring himself. For Seinfeld, it’s a Superman reference. For most web designers, it’s the code that they start with. Continue reading →

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Setting up a custom 404 Error – Page Not Found Page

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

Don’t you hate it when you hit a bad link on a website? Sometimes it’s just a matter of a redesign or reorganization making a page obsolete. Avoid rejecting your users by creating a custom “404 Error Page Not Found” page.

You’ll need two files:

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