Sunday, January 27, 2008

Getting your site indexed before you launch

Most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live.

The Name Game: Using Keywords in URL Filenames

Keywords...an often overlooked aspect of site design and SEO that can clearly bring benefits.

Browershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

CrazyEgg - Measuring Web Site Usability

How can you measure the usability of your site? A number of new tools for tracking site visitors are raising the bar for website statistics tools. Particularly, instead of tracking the flat lists of usage and showing you illegible user paths, the next generation of site trackers is focused on giving you the insights on how people use a site. CrazyEgg, offers innovative ways of doing just that.

Read the article here .

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?

Adobe Flash Tutorials

This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

101 CSS Techniques of all time...Part 1

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.

Here's a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. The second part will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

9 Essential Principles For Good Web Design

Web design can be deceptively difficult. Getting a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, is technically sound and visually coherent...

Web Design File

Web Design File is informational common site where it introduces the Web site where a novel, wonderful technique is used. In the WEB design production, the refined Web site where creative that stimulates designer’s inspiration is high is filed.

How to use Keywords in Web Site Design

A good website needs to be user friendly and have the potential to be ranked in good position in Search Engines. The key to success lies in the right choice of keywords that are known both to the search engines and the visitor alike.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Geek Trends: 15 Footers with great usability

Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

Creating a cool 3d web design effect

Here are some very easy techniques, using gradients and layer styles, that you can use to produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Fawnt makes font hunting easy



Fawnt is a new font link directory that's got a variety of interesting and neat-looking fonts for your computer.

Clicking on any of the font links will take you to its site or origin, where you can go download and install it on your machine. The site also keeps track of how many clicks each font has, giving you a quick way to see what's been popular. Many of the fonts are free, but several are not--unfortunately, you don't find this out until you get there.