Blog Entries tagged 'website design'

My Rule Number 2 => For the Do It Yourself Website

mjones@interwebshop.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

when building a site using joomla, regardless of the templates, components, modules, plugins etc used, be prepared to start over as many times as it takes.

it is rare to build a site flawlessly on first try efforts, especially when trying new component s and templates, there is a learning curve for everything. and part of that curve is "trial and error"

take the leaps of faith into trying new things, but always be prepared to delete, reinstall, and try over again [...]

My Rule Number 1=> Basic Web Design Concepts

mjones@interwebshop.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

My Rule Number 1=> the 4 B's
what are the four B's.

it's what i refer to Bigger, Brighter, Better, Bolder.

many times we spend an exorbitant amount of time and energy on the wrong things.

hours and hours of struggle on making a line thicker, a font bolder, a color brighter or just making something esthetically more pleasing to our own personal palette of tastes.

i've been in the internet biz twelve years, and I have lea [...]

Canonical redirects solve search engine duplication issues

mjones1256@optonline.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

When we meet with a new client we do an extensive analysis of their current web site. It never ceases to amaze that the previous webmasters did not set up a canonical 301 redirect on their site. It is a basic part of your website set up and it is a measure of the webmasters abilities.

Here is what the canonical redirect is all about

Have you ever noticed that you can type into the browser address field a website name with or without the "www" [...]

Basic SEO Tips Tricks and The SEO Format Skeleton

mjones1256@optonline.net — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I've just finished another SEO project. After optimizing the website to not only be indexed, but rank well, I received the usual Why did you do this or that and I'm not sure I like what you did? (See the four B's) In my experience SEO has many trade offs. If you follow very simple formatting rules your pages can rank very high on the search engines. Don't over complicate the SEO process. It is really very simple.

The following works for Interwebshop Internet Marketing S [...]