Importance of Coding Standards

Programming Help for Beginners We write programs to instruct computers. When programming using a high level programming language like C++ or Java, we are using a syntax that is somewhat closer to human languages. However, we use these programs as inputs to either compilers or interpreters to be converted to computer understandable binary format. For [...]

How you write and design your links is crucial to your visitors clicking them or not. Write them badly and they leave, write them well and they stay. Who knows, they might even do exactly that what you created your site for. Following are 7 guidelines how links should be written to improve the usability [...]

The 5 Principles of Effective Navigation

A website’s navigation is one of its most important parts. Sure, your users mostly come in through search engines now instead of via your homepage, but how can they get from whatever page they’re on to any other page they might want to go to? The limited space available at the top and sides of [...]

Web Usability: The Basics

What is web usability & why is it important? Web usability is about making your website in such a way that your site users can find what they’re looking for quickly and efficiently. A usable website can reap huge benefits on to your website and your business. * Every 1 invested in improving your website’s [...]

Why You Should Stick to Design Conventions

A mistake often made by people who are new to web design is thinking that they shouldn’t pay any attention to what has come before: they’re going to design a website the way they think one should work. You have to realise, though, that there’s a difference between being innovative and being arrogant. In almost [...]

Making Searches Simple

One sticky point with many websites is this: they have absolutely terrible search engines. It does make sense, in a way, as searches are complicated to program for, and it takes time to write or implement a search engine on your site. Still, if you do search badly, it’s worse than not doing it at [...]

How to Keep Robots Out of Your Web Site

THE ROBOTS.TXT FILE You know that search engines have been created to help people find information quickly on the Internet, and the search engines acquire much of their information through robots (also known as spiders or crawlers), that look for web pages for them. The spiders or crawlers robots explore the web looking for and [...]