SEO and Your Web Site

We all know the importance of having a Web site rank well in search engine results for searches on specific keywords/phrases. If your Web site doesn’t have a page appearing in the top 10 search engine result positions (SERPs) the chances of someone clicking on your listing, and actually visiting your site, drop dramatically. If you’re not in the top 20 you have almost no chance that someone will scan through the SERPs that far to find your page.

Packaging Design for Web-based Products

Rip. Crinkle. Pop. The sounds of unpacking that eagerly anticipated product you just brought home from the store are music to the ears. Each successive layer of packaging reveals new information or reiterates the reasons you put down your hard-earned money for the consumer goodness now in your hands.

What is Deep Link Ratio?

Answer: Deep link percentage is the % of all your backlinks (or inbound links) that point at pages other than your home page. Read the article here.

Design Questions Every Website Should Address for Success

Views and news on the holistic approach to usability, seo/sem, accessibility and organic, people on purpose web design.

10 Things to keep in mind when changing a site design

When you create a new site design, you should always remember a few key points. If you don’t, not only is it bad for search engines, but also visitors.

Internet Marketing Best [Blog] Posts of 2006: The Year in Review

Various links that reflect on some of the best blog posts and books regarding Internet Marketing.

Screenalcio.us

Screenalicio.us is the web's new premier source for showcasing excellent websites and inspire artists all alike to create spectacular work of their own.

They have the largest collection of websites you will ever lay your eyes on, and it keeps on growing every day.

All you got to do is start browsing. Go on. Get inspired!

A Digital Magazine Awarding Super Hot Websites

Here's a great web site that was established in 2005 to promote and award websites that exhibit outstanding design qualites...Website Design Awards.

Websites of the Week

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Retro Style

Revised versions of past styles is a common and very popular technique. It is found in advertising, cd design, fashion, and of course, website design. It is done for a variety of reasons, sometimes driven by the content of the site and at other times by the desire to associate the site with some element of the past.

Web Page Development: Best Practices

Apple's Developer Connection web site offers some very good information on best practices for building web sites. The article offers some practical hints on how to create standards-conforming websites, and to work around some issues that will arise on Explorer's browser.

Ten questions for Patrick Griffiths

Patrick Griffiths (or PTG) is a London-based freelance webmaker. He is most widely known for his site HTML Dog, an HTML and CSS resource for beginners and experts alike. The 10 questions.

Articles & Tutorials on Good Web Practices

Check out this site for helpful information on good web practices when building your web site.

Batch Processing Images

Here's a great tutorial using Photoshop to turn a bunch of digital photos into thumbnails, and then format them on a web page with Dreamweaver.

Design Melt Down

A great site that covers design elements, trends, and problems in web design.

Looking for some good text tricks?

Mandarin Design offers some very good methods by which to add in some unique text tricks to your web site.

eHub

Emily Chang has jumped into the middle of what everyone seems to be whispering about these days. She’s part of the Web2.0 Work group, a member of TheCorantNetwork, has been involved in the creation of eighty plus websites.

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

CSS Help Pile

There are some amazing resources available for creating powerful standards-based websites (a quick look at this site's inspiration proves that). Unfortunately, often these resources aren't centralized and searching for specific information can often lead to getting lost in a maze of links -- this is an especially daunting task when you're not exactly sure what you're searching for. The css help pile is an attempt to centralize linkage to those resources and tips in a collected and organized manner. The css help pile doesn't intend to compete with these resources, but rather, to promote access and discussion to many of the resources that are out there. CSS Help Pile

Web Developer's Handbook

Check out Vitaly Friedman's web site titled Web Developer's Handbook. It had information stemming from CSS layouts, color tools, typography, and more.

Did you take your Vitamin today?

The web has undoubtedly entered a new and exciting phase. Designers, developers and entrepreneurs are energized, refueled and producing some mind-blowing projects. The buzz is most definitely back! Vitamin is a brand new online magazine dedicated to that new web industry.

Vitamin will inspire you, teach you, advise you and sometimes test you with its in-depth features, audio interviews, training sessions and reviews.

It’s updated every week, and it’s free! So whether you just want to get dirty with the code or plan to topple Google with your next cunning web app idea, Vitamin is your new best friend.