For me personally, Wordtracker.com is not just a tool for looking up keywords. Sure, that’s one good use for it, but what I want to distinguish is another influential and exciting use for Wordtracker as an SEO resource. “Keywords” for use in your Meta tags are probably the least influential element in search engine optimization [...]

Patience and time are two of the precious attributes why you have to make your site easy to load. Patience because visitors do not have patience to stick with your site until your site has fully loaded. Visitors can change their mind in just a flick of a finger thus your site must load as [...]

I often wonder how serious people are when it comes to their websites. I thought that most everyone knew that the phrase “Build it and they will come” no longer applies on the internet but I’m not sure how many people really believe it. I look at sites everyday as part of my sales strategy [...]

This article is the result of a conversation I had with a magician about his website. He wanted to know if I could build him a nice looking site that had his name and contact information on it. I explained to him the purpose of having a website and what you want visitors to do [...]

You’ve probably seen it on sites like Google. They do something to tweak their site for Christmas and other holidays. The big question is, when is that type of thing appropriate for business sites, and to what extent? For business to business sites, changing some element of the site itself is not generally appropriate. However, [...]

FACT: 30 to 60% of visitors tend to drop off and click to another site when they are forced to click their mouse more often than necessary. FACT: People who use the internet are usually those who are always on-the-go and dont want to spend time figuring out how to navigate any web site. FACT: [...]

Everyone is trying to rank well in search engines so as to enjoy good amount of free traffic every month. But if you look at the server statistics carefully, you will notice that most people leave almost immediately upon entering the site. You cannot complain about your sales because the fact is that people in [...]

Perl is, let’s face it, a programming language for people who know programming. It’s extremely different from PHP: you can’t really just pick it up and use it. Perl bears a lot of resemblance to C and Unix shell scripts, if that means anything to you – if it doesn’t, you should probably steer clear [...]

If you’re just starting out in your career as a web designer, you likely have a lot of work left to do before you have an established portfolio. After all, it’s hard to convince potential new customers that you have the talent and skills to create a website if you have no portfolio to show [...]

Today’s applications – either for the Web or standalone – are starting to focus more and more on the user interface. The time when you had to write lines and lines of commands or go through several menus to execute a certain task has passed. Developers have now implemented simple wizards, with on-screen help near [...]