With over ten years of experience designing web pages and websites from the earliest days of the web, we share some of our website development techniques, tips, and development lessons.
Developing a website is more than just creating a pretty series of web pages on a site and submitting your site to search engines. It is about “developing” the site. It is about creating a purpose and identity for your site. It is about linking and being linked to to raise your page ranking within the search engines. It is about the content, providing good quality information and words to help people learn and get the information you offer. It is about creating a site that will make people come visit, stick around, and return for more.
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Stuntdubl Business Search Marketing Consulting's rant, "Stock Photography of People Sucks", speaks for a lot of us, including me, as we spot stock photography on commercial websites - or just about any website - really easily.
Stock people on a website decreases your credibility. No, I haven't done extensive studies on this, but I can spot [...]
It seems that Nikon and Flicker are teaming up. According to Whatsnextblog.com, Nikon has made a deal with Flickr to advertise on their site, placing small Nikon logos "next to pictures taken with the cameras" and will have a "Nikon only photo gallery".
Online Media Daily reports that the deal between Nikon and Flickr is [...]
Web Reference's article, "Stock Photography for Web Developers", is a interesting step-by-step explanation of how to use images on your website, but it goes much further.
This week we're going to take a brief look at a few of the photographic and design techniques necessary to create your own stock images. However, it's important to realize [...]
Eyes Apart: Living with strabismus, a blog by Lois, who suffers with Strabismus which causes one or both eyes to not point in the same direction at the same time. She has written a lovely article about this site, Taking Your Camera on the Road, highlighting the fact that producing a website that meets web [...]
In a fascinating article on SCORE, veteran catalog guru, Lillian Vernon, shares her insights about the move From My Kitchen Tabletop to Your Computer Laptop, covering the history of the Lillian Vernon Corporation and catalog from a small kitchen business to a worldwide company with millions of dollars in sales online every year.
When I founded [...]
SCORE offers a great article on 10 Ways To Make Your Web Site Work Harder For You. It is must read for website administrators and owners. I especially love the tip "Focus the Home Page and Product Pages on Your Customers' Interests, Not Yours". That's a really good reminder.
Tips include:
Make Sure Your Site Looks [...]
In a report by researchers at , and published at Weblog Ethics Survey Results, researchers studied 1,224 surveys of bloggers and came up with some "interesting" results.
A study conducted in June 2002 found 2% of Internet users in the United States had created a weblog (Pew, 2005). Since then, the percentage soared to 7% in [...]
I want to seriously talk to you about the responsibilities of hosting comments on your website. It's fun and it's a great thrill to get a response to something you've written, but it also has responsibilities, both by you and the comment poster. We can't control the comment poster, but we can control our response to the comment. That is our responsibility as a website owner and/or administrator.
Dealing with comments means identifying and dealing with unwanted spam such as comment spam or inappropriate or off-topic comments. You may, or may not, have a responsibility to respond to comments, so it may add more to your site's workload. Then there is the debate of what comments should stay or be removed dependent upon your site's policies and standards. There are a lot of questions to be asked and answered, and with all things, it begins with a plan.
