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Google SEO Basics for Beginners
As many of us web developers already know, Google is rated by many as the number one search engine in the world. We personally know that our websites get about 90% of their search engine traffic direct from Google searches.
The Bakery: How I Built a Web 2.0 Dating Site in 66.5 Hours
On the Bakery (the CakePHP blog), there's a new case study on how a group of developers created a "Web 2.0 dating site in 66.5 hours" (just short of 3 days worth of work).
"Let this be a testament to Web 2.0 and the effectiveness of rapid development frameworks: I built a full-featured dating website (http://mingle2.com), from concept to launch, in 66.5 hours. In a typical
9-5 job this would amount to about a week and a half. Deliverables included: the idea, planning, design, development, testing, and launch. "
The study is broken up into the (long list of) key steps that were followed:- Identify an Opportunity
- Brain-dump
- Generate ideas from your competition
- Brain-dump some more
- Have a specific goal, don't try to make the website do everything
- Keep. It. Simple. Stupid
- Minimize interference
- Avoid "feature creep"
- Web 2.0 names are going to be very tacky in a few years
- If you get stuck on something, put it on the backburner
- Prioritize features so you can give prominent real estate to those that need it
- Put a lot of work into the functional mockups
- Mix it up, keep things interesting
And finally, "The Design" where he looked at achieving balance, got a "holy crap, that's pretty" reaction, and to make things look up to date. The end result of the labor is mingle2.com, a 100% free online dating website.- Identify an Opportunity
Building An Expanding DHTML Menu With CSS and JavaScript
Today I am going to show you the different parts that make up a dropdown vertical menu for your website. This is not like your normal dropdown menu, which appears at the top of your content, however -- these menus expand and remain visible until they are collapsed with the click of a mouse. The menu content actually expands with your page content, pushing the rest of whatever is below it down - so it can actually be used for more than just a menu.
NorthClick Blog: Tips for creating a small but solid newsletter-system
On the NorthClick blog today, there's a quick little set of hints talking about the creation of a simple ("but solid") newsletter system for your website.
He breaks it down into the individual steps you'll need to follow:- Use a Framework
- Queue in the database
- Use SMTP
- Check Headers
- Test it
In the step involving the database, he gives the create script you'll need to get the table set up and working. It's not so much a step-by-step tutorial with all of the needed code as it is a general look at what steps to follow when rolling your own newsletter setup.- Use a Framework
How To Get Repeat Visitors To Your Website
As the proud publisher of a website I'm sure you have spent a considerable amount of time and effort to attract traffic to your site. It's not difficult to realize how it is to your advantage to get repeat visitors to your website, rather than to constantly be relying on finding someone new. A visitor who has previously viewed your website offerings is much more likely to become your customer than a first time visitor. To this end, I would like you to consider the following suggestions.
The Shrek Model of Web Design
Websites are like onions, you see, since websites have layers. And ogres are like onions, since ogres have layers. Websites are designed by web designers. Ergo - web designers are like ogres. So, let's explore why web designers are like ogres
10-step plan for effective website design
If you are thinking about creating a website, there are a number of key principles you should consider before setting out. If you follow this simple ten-step plan, you will be well on your way to sharing your creation with the World Wide Web community.
Hiring Web Developers: What to Know
In this article, Ryan Barichello, covers some things you should keep in mind when hiring Web Developers
Seven Crucial Elements of a Successful Web Presence
There is more to an effective website than great looking graphics. In fact there are seven crucial elements every site needs to maximize profits.
WebSite Goodies: Link Building the Right Way
It began with Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company's founders, decided to build a search engine which didn't rank pages primarily by keyword density like their competition. Early search engines were easy to fool, fill your page with the same phrase over and over and you'd appear near the top of search results for that phrase. Google was different. It let the web itself tell their search engine what pages were about and which were most important. This process is what they called PageRank, and works by analyzing the incoming links to each page.
Website speed: How fast should your website be?
How fast does your website load and how fast should it be? People in the industry often talk about the mythical sub-second page load, but how many websites actually deliver sub-second response times and is it a realistic goal or expectation?
Seven Ways to Keep Your Visitors
These days, having a website is absolutely essential for any flourishing company. But not all sites are necessarily good ones. Your website can either be very successful and get you a large number of visitors or it can so badly made that getting a single client can be hard. Generally, a good website is one thats descriptive, straightforward and gives people a reason to visit your page again. On the other hand, bad website is the complete opposite; they are slow to load, misleading or just simply unpleasant. The following articles will list you 7 things NOT to do for your web site if you want to have clients.
How To Set Up A Rollicking Internet Retail Business
Even with the dot com bust of the late 90s, the number of entrepreneurs who have successfully leveraged this powerful medium to sell products, services or information and become millionaires in the process is phenomenal.