Web Design & Standards: The Archives
Fixing A Blogging Mistake
About a year ago, I made a blogging mistake, although I didn’t realise it at the time. I started a tech-focussed blog called Interweb World. This post looks at why this was a bad decision and what I’ve been doing to rectify the problem.
Posted in Announcements, Blogging on Tuesday, April 3 2007 | Leave a comment »
Submit Your Website To Google? You Don’t Have To….
Submitting your site to Google isn’t a guaranteed way to get listed in their index. There’s a better way, as discussed here.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, March 27 2007 | 1 Comment »
Building Online Communities
In this post, I share some experiences of building online communities via forums. These are some of the factors we consider useful in building a thriving forum community.
Posted in Web Applications, Web Design & Standards on Monday, March 26 2007 | 1 Comment »
Fast Way To Upgrade WordPress Via Shell
Oops! A server breach over at WordPress.org caused the downloadable version of the software to become compromised.
Now, I’m not normally one to upgrade every time a new version of WordPress is released, especially a minor point version. But the WP developers seemed concerned enough to cross post this on all their blogs, so I decided [...]
Posted in WordPress on Saturday, March 3 2007 | Leave a comment »
Client Guide: Introduction to Search Engine Optimisation
If you run or manage any type of website, you’ll have heard of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). This is a method of refining your web pages to get higher listings in search engine results. I’ve written this guide for clients (and potential clients) to help you understand what SEO is, why it’s important, setting goals and expectations, and what to watch out for.
Posted in Client Guides, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, February 28 2007 | Leave a comment »
9 Random Lessons From A Successful Blog
Around 18 months ago, we started a little blog - totally on a whim - about reality TV shows. It was initially intended to serve as a portfolio sample and an experiment into Search Engine Optimisation. What we didn’t anticipate was the huge popularity the site would eventually gain, culminating in over half-a-million hits in January 2007. Here are some of things which I think made the site a success.
Posted in Blogging on Friday, February 23 2007 | Leave a comment »
Styling Drupal Buttons For Usability
I came across this very interesting article by urlgreyhot on how to style the default Drupal buttons for that they provide some visual cues as to which buttons are most important.
In most of the standard Drupal themes, the Preview, Publish and Delete buttons are styled in the same way, which gives equal visual weight to [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, February 20 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hide The Sidebar In Google Reader
I’ve been trying to get to grips with keyboard shortcuts in Google Reader for a while now, but I discovered a cool one today when randomly pressing buttons.
To hide the sidebar subscriptions list in Reader, simply press the “u” key and it’ll disappear. Press “u” again to make the sidebar reappear.
Doing this can cause the [...]
Posted in Web Applications on Thursday, February 15 2007 | Leave a comment »
Get RSS Feeds For Any Simple Machines Forum
Simple Machines Forum is an excellent piece of free forum-ware. However, out of the box, it’s rubbish at giving you up-to-date features like RSS feeds.
I mentioned a while back that it was possible to republish RSS feeds from your forum on your blog.
How do we achieve this? Well, it’s quite easy actually. With the WordPress [...]
Posted in Web Applications, Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, January 23 2007 | 4 Comments »
Press Releases and Search Engine Benefits
Savvy bloggers use press releases as a method of getting exposure for their blogs in the mainstream media.
We’ve used it recently with our website and had good coverage with local press and media. In fact, word has it that the BBC spotted Lisa on a rival channel and tried frantically to get in touch, even [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, January 19 2007 | Leave a comment »
