Related Blog Posts for 'Web Design'

We take a look at 1 of the possible ways to produce rounded corners on divs and other elements as well as your images in page, using css, xhtml and javascript.

301 Redirects are a big part of SEO and making sure that (A) the search engine bots find your content correctly, and (B) understand that the old page or domain is the same as the new one and thus combine the overall rank statistics to the one location. In essence the 301 redirect simply [...]

The Backstory
Back 5 years ago when XOOPS was all the rage, alongside a bunch of other CMSes vying for each and every web developer’s attention, I completed a number of different sites with XOOPS. The problem is that as time has moved on, keeping the sites going on older versions has become tiresome at best [...]

Having written many an article about how to make iWeb more search engine friendly, and highlighting all the areas where it lacks decent SEO support, I was contacted by the team at macwyse.com to discuss the possibility of giving a course or two on the topic as part of their wider web design with RapidWeaver [...]

Over the last 12 months I have found that one single SSL-based host on my CPanel / WHM server occasionally drops back and starts generating “[hostname] has sent incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12263″ alerts when trying to load a secure page in a browser, in this case FireFox.
A quick search of Google and [...]

Yesterday, having posted an article to MacSurfer last weekend, I came across an opinion snippet on a web site. The web site was in fact, injoydesign.com, a site that purportedly puts “joy into design”, the problem was, it wasn’t giving me much joy, the reason being that the snippet of the site I was looking [...]

If you run any number of servers and have to login many times a day it can quickly become tiresome if you dont’t want to have to type in your password every time and you don’t want to store this anywhere in the finder or the keychain utility of OSX.
Create Your Public Key & Publishing [...]

Have you ever just wanted to be able to drag and drop paypal buttons into a place on your web page and not have to worry about whether it will work or not, or whether you have missed out some hidden field or other in order for the buttons to work and make sure the [...]

I was recently asked by a friend and Apple Creative Genius to write an article about Apple’s idiot-proof web design software, iWeb, and the field of search engine optimisation; more specifically, how to make iWeb more search engine friendly.
Given my current interest in SEO, I was certainly excited about looking at iWeb and similar programs [...]

Google PR Widget is a useful tool made by developer, Ran Aroussi, that helps Mac OSX users grab the PR number for any web site page straight from the OSX dashboard.
The great advantage of this is that you don’t have to install the Google Toolbar for FireFox or anything else to find out the PR [...]

SEO expert and tipster, Eric Wolfram, recently had an interview with Eddie Codell on the LunchMeet #52 Video PodCast and had the following to say about his tips and tricks for people looking to perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on their web site and get it ranked higher in Google:
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) [...]

When trying to publish your web site online with Apple’s iWeb website design software and .Mac their online website host offering, you are already fighting an uphill struggle to get your web site into search engines like Google. That being said many people still make iWeb and .Mac their software and host of choice [...]

I recently came across a brief and informative article by the Cambridge University Press on how to acheive the best results in print and web design from the perspective of a client. They offered a 6 point plan for getting the results you desire and layed the onus as much at the door of [...]

Recently published by seomoz.org is the web designers SEO cheat sheet. It brings together SEOmoz’s Danny Dover’s experience and knowledge of 9 months into one easy place, and helps others to equally tick all the boxes required to optimize a web site for better rank in Google and other search engines.
The cheat [...]

Few designers even think much beyond the initial design, color patterns, using the mixer and perhaps a pantone book, let alone think about accessibility for the visually impaired.
Mostly, when people think about accessibility and visual impairment they think of the blind, but this is not always the case, making your web site, print material or [...]

It seems like for years people have been asking for custom field availability within the calendar module in Expression Engine. Somehow the feature still languishes on the request list.
Here’s a quick and dirty guide on how to implement the "Mr Wilson" hack for adding custom field data into your weblog calendar [...]