Entries for the ‘Programming, Design, & Security’ Category

Nofollow: A Review

There is currently a lot of hype about the HTML function of nofollow lately, so I thought I would take this opportunity to revisit the idea of nofollow and when to and when not to use it.
If you are new to the idea of nofollow, I have provided a brief definition from its Wikipedia [...]

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The Importance of Meta Tags

As a directory editor, I often come across sites that are submitted to me that do not have any meta tags. With this in mind, I would like to take this opportunity to
express how important meta tags are on your website and how they play a role when using other services.
If you are unsure of [...]

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A Clever Way to Promote Your Site

Even though promotion for your site should be fairly effortless, you still have to get out there and push it sometimes. There’s a special little niche for CSS websites out there called “CSS galleries”.

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Getting Hooked on a Website

Since you want people to get hooked on your site immediately, you can’t just do any old thing to it. For one, you want people to find it whether they’re looking for it or not (not in a spam kind of way), and you also want people to like what they see at first glance. [...]

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Image Optimization Tips

I discussed in a previous article the idea of SEOing images, optimizing them for web use. I gave several tips for making your images more recognizable by search engines, but not much information on what types of files there are. This time, I’d like to hit a little of what I did in that [...]

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Make It Easy For Them

This may seem like a no-brainer, but you want to be able to keep people on your website. I’ve talked about this in the past, a few times, but this time I intend to give you a few more pointers for getting and keeping people coming back for more. Make it easy for [...]

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Steps For Getting a Website Started

There are many things to take into consideration when starting up your website for your business/marketing. You of course have to have your idea and be ready to go with it, if you’ve not already gotten it started, but you also have to think about the structure of your website. Not really sure [...]

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SEOing Images

Images are a large part of websites, and just as the rest of the website needs to be optimized, so do the images. It is really easy to maintain images once you get a little system going, and understand what you need to do for each one.

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