Web Strategy: The Three Spheres of Web Strategy (and the skills required)

What’s a Web Strategy? It’s the balance between the three spheres for effective long-term planning of a website.

Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Twitter

If you’re responsible for the direction of your online strategies for your company or organization, you’ve probably been hearing buzz about Twitter, a next-generation instant messaging tool. Even if you’re new to Twitter, this will serve as a guide to educate you, help you make a decision, link to resources, and provide a starting point for your strategy.

15 Grandiose Green Website Designs

Many of the sites deal directly with the environment or nature in some way, but others simply enjoy the emotion green color and imagery inspire in a viewer.

20 white and clean website Designs for Inspiration

White the color of peace is also one of the best color which inspires me while designing any website. The main thing I like about the color its easy to use (not like gradients, image effects, etc.) giving a more clean and professional look to a website.

What's Niggle all about?

Niggle is an independent feedback service that delivers your feedback directly to business owners and managers.

Overview of the New AdWords Interface

For years, the Google AdWords interface has maintained the same look and feel, leaving advertisers comfortable with navigating around campaigns and making adjustments. Google has decided to shake things up with their AdWords appearance by not only giving it a fresh coat of paint, but an extreme makeover.

How Much Weight Do Keywords in the Domain Name Still Have ?

Keywords in the domain used to be a very powerful way to be the first in Google SERPs for those keywords.

Whiteboard Friday - SEO for Local Search

David Mihm takes us through some of the fundamentals of performing SEO for Local Search by explaining how Google uses information from different sources, and what you can do with those sources to help your local rankings.

How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX

AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.

Switching to Freelance: How to Negotiate to Work Less Hours in Your Job

Freelance businesses can have small beginnings.

webdesignfanboy

Twitter site, Webdesignfanboy is a self-proclaimed web design fanboy! I enjoy browsing designs and learning jQuery, Wordpress and Expression Engine.

Users Place More Weight on Design

The demand for good web design is increasing, revealed a recent Webcopyplus online poll. Almost 25% of web users indicated "poor visual presentation" as the number one element that drives them away from websites.

12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Site’s Uptime

A website or web application’s high availability is very crucial; users who constantly encounter problems accessing the content of a site will not likely come back.

Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. Here are a few to check out.

Why Web Developers Don’t Need A Mac

As Web developers, we never stop hearing about the Mac. A lot of people love to talk about their Macs, but despite the “elite” status of the Apple computer, is there any need for a Web developer to splash money on one?

Indexing the web - it's not just Google's business

Interface responsiveness is one of many details web developers must consider in their quest to deliver a good user experience.

Why designers should learn how to code

For optimum efficiency, designers should not only be concerned with painting the bigger picture but also building it! In this article, you'll read about some reasons why designers should learn how to code.

30 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Websites

Photoshop is an excellent tool. No design software gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop in designing a website. Here is a collection of 30 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website.

Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers

Here's six useful tips for all you web designers and developers out there. They cover various topics including: accessibility, SQL, web developer plugins for Firefox, HTML emails, design and jQuery.

Effective Maintenance Pages: Examples and Best Practices

Every website has to perform maintenance at some point or another. Whether it’s just to upgrade a portion of the site or because of some problem with the site, it’s an inevitable fact of website ownership. And in many cases, maintenance requires taking your site offline for at least a few minutes.