Web Design, SEO & CSS… etc

I have been developing an installation of the superb Prestashop eCommerce solution for my wife's lingerie webshop. I've made a significant amount of changes and additions to the coding in places for increased security, usability and SEO. Read More »

Continuing on from my opening post about my first ever photoshop to XHTML conversion. In this post I'm going to cover the initial chopping up of the photoshop layout into the individual website sections eg header, navigation, content etc. So without further ado, let's Choop da Shoop... Read More »

How effective is your website? Can you find your website in a search engine? More to the point, can you find your website in a search engine when you type in a realistic search term... ie one that is related to your site subject and not just your website domain name?... Ahaaa... Read More »

<title>www.mywebsite.com</title> Urghh! How many times have I seen the title tags simply filled in with the website domain name? I suppose it is better than nothing which is also often the case but... Read More »

I just got an email looking like it was from Facebook telling me they were changing the login system for my security... I was immediately suspicious as it came to an email address I do not use for Facebook... Read More »

One of my passions if you like is to learn more about how to create websites that conform to a few basic rules that are 90% of the time missed out by simple page builder software and online site builders. Following these simple to implement rules usually ensures, among many other things, stuff like: Read More »

SEO is not as big a deal as the SEO companies try to make it out to be... It's basically a few design rules that need to be applied and there is no reason to pay some company hundreds or thousands of pounds/dollars whatever to do it for you. I've put together a list of things to do below. Read More »

I was just reading about search engines ignoring description meta tags these days. Not exactly news but the article went on to say that there is no need to include them at all... I have to disagree! Read More »

This is the first part in what will eventually become a series of posts regarding converting a Photoshop layout into a fully functional website. I won't go into too gory details as these tutorials have been done (far better) elsewhere. My aim is to try to highlight some of the pitfalls encountered and subsequent workarounds. Read More »

(read part 1) Steven Goldstar starred down teh barrel on the massive wepon the angry alein was pointin at him and shouted at the angry alien "It are not my fault you space ship did crashed!" and the alien looked right at Steven Goldstar and swear at him lots too said "It are your damn fault Steven Goldstar you made mine spaceships crashed by dedding them zombies an th3y was all my pilots!" Right then the alien pulled back the firing switch on the massive wepon t,hat he was pointed right at Steven Goldstar,s hed and pointed it at Steven Goldstar even ...Read More »