Tag: Stylesheets

Search Engine Optimization For Blogs

Posted on Jul.15, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site’s navigational structure and linkage.
Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.
Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page.
But depending on the blogging service or software you use, [...]


9 Steps to Getting Better Search Engine Rankings

Posted on Jul.11, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

You finally have a website and you are ready to sit back and let the visitors start rolling in. How does that saying go? "If you build it they will come." This may be true in Hollywood but certainly not true in the case of your website. You need to constantly work at improving your site to ensure that your website achieves a decent search engine ranking. This is a process that doesn’t happen over night but with some concentrated [...]


Do’s and Don’ts in Web Design – part 1 (design)

Posted on Mar.12, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Do use a consistent look and
feel Your site should stand out as a whole. Use
the same look and feel for all the pages at your site. This way
your visitors have a sense of recognition when they visit
various pages. Using stylesheets makes it much easier to
maintain the look and feel of numerous pages.
Don’t use dark
backgrounds Dark backgrounds tend to make text
less readable. So avoid dark colors or dark backgroundimages. If
you do need them, use a nonserif font for the text [...]


Dos and Don’ts in Web Design – part 1 (design)

Posted on Mar.07, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Do use a consistent look and feel
Your site should stand out as a whole. Use the same look and feel for all the pages at your site. This way your visitors have a sense of recognition when they visit various pages. Using stylesheets makes it much easier to maintain the look and feel of numerous pages.
Do use recurring visual elements
Repeat visual elements (images, colors, fonts etc.) on several pages. This will add to a consistent look and feel.
Don’t use [...]


CSS in Flash the Return of Crisp and Legible Fonts

Posted on Feb.04, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

A typical challenge faced by Flash developers like me is
getting fonts to look like you want then to. For any project
choosing the right font face and size is a process that requires
both you and ultimately the client to see eye to eye.
In Flash MX and earlier versions fonts were by default
anti-aliased, meaning that the edges of the text are smoothed.
This is good when dealing with large type but it causes small
text to appear blurry. [...]