February 25, 2009
WordPress is one of the most popular and versatile blogging platforms and content management systems used on the web today. The variety of available plugins is one of the contributing reasons to that, but how do you tell which plugins are essential to use, and which aren’t?
February 16, 2009
Dear web design firm, In the year or so that I’ve been in business for myself, I’ve continually looked to improve both my design abilities and how I communicate to potential clients the ways that my knowledge can benefit them. I’ve been making great progress on both fronts, but I’d really like to thank you [...]
February 12, 2009
In the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Hansel and Gretel get lost in the woods, yet are able to find their way home because they left a trail of breadcrumbs on the path. Web designers use breadcrumbs for the same reasons – in fact, the fairy tale is where the term came from.
February 10, 2009
Google provides a range of free tools to help you promote your website and achieve better placement within its search engine results. I use a few of these already, both on this website and for my clients. You might find it useful to hear about what each one can do and see some of the [...]
February 3, 2009
Web designers have two main ways to add descriptive text to page elements – the ALT attribute and the TITLE attribute. There is often some confusion about how these two attributes work, for they seem to work in similar ways. In reality, they have different purposes, so knowing what those differences are is important in [...]