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Use CSS for Print Friendly Pages

Posted on: Friday, May 23rd, 2008 in: Best Practices, Web Design

It used to be that if you wanted a print friendly page version of each page of your website you made one and blocked the search engines from indexing them as duplicate content by blocking them in your robots.txt file, but now you can get your printer friendly page with just a wee bit of […]

Page Layout Slip Sliding Around

Posted on: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in: Best Practices, Web Design

You’ve seen websites like this, the layout slides around over lays other elements and looks very different in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Although the world is moving to all CSS website design layouts, there is still use for table layouts combined with CSS.
I have found that these hybrid layouts may be more cross-browser compatible and may […]

Navigation Where Do You Put It?

Posted on: Friday, May 9th, 2008 in: Tips, Best Practices, Web Design

Typically navigation belongs on the left of your web page. Years and websites have trained readers to look for navigation there. If you differ from this model, you’d better have a good reason as you do not want to needlessly confuse readers or have your site be difficult to navigate. One of the top reasons […]

Integrating RSS Auto Sensing

Posted on: Thursday, May 8th, 2008 in: Tips, Best Practices, Browsers, Web Design

Have you wondered how other websites get that Orange feed icon to light up in IE 7 and Firefox? Here’s how to do it.
In the head section of your source code insert the following code:
link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS Design-World Watch” href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/Design-WorldWatch” /
Please note so you can see the code, I have removed the < in front and […]

How to Build Blog Traffic - Best Practices

Posted on: Thursday, May 1st, 2008 in: Best Practices, Blogging

Are you trying to build traffic to your blog? Want to know my best practice tips to increase readership? Click in to our blog post at Blog-World Watch to read about how you can build blog readers and blog traffic.

Choosing and Effective Domain Name

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Domain Names

Choosing an effective domain name is an important part of creating your Web visibility plan, but not the main driver of website success.
If your company name or abbreviation is not available, then you may want to consider using keywords in your domain name. Don’t worry about .com or .us, search engines will get visitors to […]

Negative Blog Comments - Let the Fur Fly!

Posted on: Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Blogging

Do you get them? Negative comments, I mean. If you do, do you automatically delete them? Do you prescreen blog comments?
Find out my candid viewpoint and then flame me if you want. I just don’t believe in deleting negative comments on a blog, find out why!

Pros and Cons of Using Web Templates

Posted on: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 in: Best Practices, Web Design

There are many web hosts that offer free build your own website tools, so what are the pros and cons of using them?
When you would want to use a web template:

You do not want to pay a web designer or webmaster to create and update a website.
You are wanting to test out an idea or […]

Blog Website Integration

Posted on: Monday, April 14th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Blogging

Linking your blog into your website right and effectively will drive traffic to your new blog. Find out what you should know on blog linking.

Is Ghost Blogging Insincere?

Posted on: Sunday, April 13th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Blogging

That is a good question for a professional ghost blogging firm.
Here is my personal point of view. If you are not a high profile personality or book author, it will typically not hurt you if we blog under your name. In fact, it may give your personal name more cachet on the Web.
If you are […]