http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog McCord Web Design brings you another blog but this time on topics of web design and business tips. Sat, 24 May 2008 12:50:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Effective May 24th, I will only be posting on Web-World Watch, my main blog, from this point forward. I have found that my time for testing certain features has ended and I would like to consolidate my readership and efforts to one blog. I know that you will enjoy the same ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/24/all-posts-now-on-web-world-watch/ 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 ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/23/use-css-for-print-friendly-pages/ 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 ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/21/page-layout-slip-sliding-around/ We're consolidating our efforts and this week is our last week on this blog. Please click our post title to go to the blog that we will be updating for our readers. After May 24th all posts will only be done at our new blog The Web Authority. We've migrated all ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/20/no-more-posts-at-this-blog/ Well the deal is down for the count. Facebook has just stated today that Google's fledgling Friend Connect violates it's terms of service and will block its use of their network. You can read the full post here. Not only is this really bad news for Google as Facebook was the ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/16/facebook-thrashes-google-friend-connect/ If you are not using Twitter you may want to strongly consider giving it a whirl. My Twitter site is http://www.twitter.com/mccordweb I have been having fun with Twitter for about the last 30 days. I went from posting all the time to posting every day or so and include interesting links ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/15/twitter-your-way-to-more-traffic/ We've added a new template to our Quick Launch templated web design program. It is called Tropical and you can view it online here. What Quick Launch Web Design Can Do If you need a fast web presence and like one of the website template designs as they are Quick Launch is ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/14/new-quick-launch-template/ 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. ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/09/navigation-where-do-you-put-it/ 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 ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/08/integrating-rss-auto-sensing/ If you are using WordPress for your blog, you will not even recognize the newest version of WordPress as a WordPress application. The interface is slick and loaded with AJAX, but is slicker better? Well we've seen bugs in the spell checker and image up loader already. I know that WordPress ... http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/07/wordpress-251-get-ready-for-big-changes/