Web Design & Standards: The Archives
SEO Success For Heritage Quilts
I was pleasantly surprised to see that a site I’d worked on a while back is ranking at #1 in Google (uk only) for a key competitive term.
Heritage Quilts is a small business run by my client, Briege Kelly. She’s a dedicated quiltmaker and allows orders via the OSCommerce store I set up for her [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 5 2007 | Leave a comment »
Configuring The Contact Form Module In Drupal
I’m currently wrapping up on a Drupal installation for a client I’ve been working with for a while. One of the finishing touches on the new site is a contact form. Thankfully, Drupal has a contact form module built in, so there’s not really much work to do to get it up and running.
Here are [...]
Posted in Drupal on Monday, September 3 2007 | 7 Comments »
SEO TIP: Viewing NOFOLLOW Links On The Web
Aaron Wall’s brilliantly useful SEO For Firefox plugin can show you a lot about websites via the search results - PageRank, age of site, number of backlinks, etc.
For me however, the most useful feature of the plugin highlights links that have had rel=”nofollow” applied to them. This can be useful when doing link building [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking on Tuesday, August 28 2007 | Leave a comment »
iPhone Only: Elitist Web Design Approaches
When I’m working on a website - any website - I’m thinking about how to maximize the audience that site gets.
I’ll make my best efforts to ensure that the pages can be viewed properly in the majority of web browsers, and I’ll do my level best to test that the code is accessible and [...]
Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design & Standards on Thursday, August 9 2007 | Leave a comment »
Making Windows Live Writer Work With Ultimate Tag Warrior
I have a preferred setup on most of my WordPress blogs whereby I use Ultimate Tag Warrior to tag my posts internally. Recently, I’ve been swayed by Windows Live Writer, an excellent blogging tool.
The only drawback? I couldn’t get Writer working with Ultimate Tag Warrior. Until this evening…
Posted in Blogging, WordPress on Thursday, August 2 2007 | Leave a comment »
Sharing Experience On Performancing
Although direct blog posts have been thin on the ground recently here at Scribble Designs, I have been squeezing in a little bit of technical writing over at Performancing.
Posted in Blogging on Wednesday, August 1 2007 | Leave a comment »
Installing Drupal’s Google Sitemaps Module
Here’s a short and sweet tutorial on how to install the Drupal XML Sitemap module. This module automates the creation of a sitemap - an inventory of the files on your site - and automatically submits it to the major search engines as well. An essential SEO step for users of the Drupal CMS.
Posted in Drupal, Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, July 17 2007 | 7 Comments »
Jennifer Laycock Goes On A Google Diet
Search engine expert Jennifer Laycock is embarking on an experiment to see if it’s possible to build a successful web business without any traffic from the major search engines. Looks like an interesting experiment in guerilla marketing techniques that any small business owner should be watching.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, June 28 2007 | Leave a comment »
The ProBlogger Effect
A few days ago I participated in Darren Rowse’s group writing project over at ProBlogger.
Basically, Darren sets a fairly wide topic and asks his readers to make submissions, link back to relevant posts and comment on blog posts they particularly like. I decided to get involved this time and write a Top 5 type of [...]
Posted in Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation on Sunday, May 13 2007 | Leave a comment »
My Blogging Swiss Army Knife: Top 5 Essential Sites For Bloggers
If you’re new to blogging and want to get up to speed quickly on professional techniques for writing blog posts, attracting traffic and making money from your writing, this is my list of five essential sites to get you started.
Posted in Blogging on Wednesday, May 9 2007 | 34 Comments »
