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Making Pretty URLs for Search Engine Spiders

by Mike Moran

Most search marketing experts are full of advice for folks who are struggling with weird looking URLs that search engine spiders really don’t like. I should know, because I have always been loaded with that kind…

14 Traits of Successful Blogs

Millions of people start a blog every year. Conversely, many blogs die every year from lack of updates, lack of interest, not having original content, copying/stealing of content from fellow bloggers or copyright violation etc. Those that stand above the…

Quick Tip for Frustrated Newbies

Lady on LaptopYou’ve had your blog for a few months now.  You’ve chosen a topic you love and have great information.  But you have very little traffic and no sales.

So what’s wrong?

Often times it’s nothing but your impatience…

19 CSS Menu Tutorials to Spice Up Your Web Designs

Anyone that knows what’s what about web design knows what CSS is, and how invaluable it can be to styling the navigation of a website.

The thing about CSS is that it is capable of much more than just stylistic…

Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text

Typography is an important part of Web design. Just like in the print world, your content needs to be readable to your viewers for it to be of any use. As a general rule, you want to make sure your…

Knowing About Web Safe Fonts

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Spruce It Up With Fonts

The landscape of web typography is changing quickly these days. We’ve gone from the wild west days of sIFR to Cufón to finally seeing font embedding seeing wide spread adoption by browser developers (and soon web designers) with @font-face. For…

Don’t Lose Your :focus

For many web designers, accessibility conjures up images of blind users with screenreaders, and the difficulties in making sites accessible to this particular audience. Of course, accessibility covers a wide range of situations that go beyond the extreme example of…

25 Beautiful Minimalist Designs

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“Simplify, simplify, simplify.”

It’s one of Thoreau’s most enduring witticisms, and with good reason. When faced with the ever-increasing barrage of information that is modern life, many people…

Designing Accessible Websites

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For the third-largest minority group in the United States — more than 40 million people — the vast majority of Websites are partially or completely inaccessible.

Illustration of a wheelchair icon with the text Access All Areas

The…