Ok, so the children aren’t quite singing in Christian rhyme but we’re almost there.
Read the rest of this entry »

…it’s about where your link goes.

On page links are important not only for your sites usability and how you guide prospective customers around your site but also important to its SEO performance within the search engines. Having good internal linking can help boost our sites ranking. With bad links or at worse links that take users to the dreaded 404 Page not Found will do potential harm to your ranking.
Read the rest of this entry »

Another week comes to an end and we get ever closer to Christmas, which in my book isn’t a bad thing. The build up to Xmas is always the best bit; buying in the food, putting the tree up, eating nuts, chocolates and sweet meats, watching the festive films and yuletide offerings on the goggle box.

So, during this past week I have stored some interesting posts and blogs articles which I’d like to offer to you now, a (very) early present:

• Guides for checking and double-checking your site before launch: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/04/website-maintenance-tips-for-front-end-developers/
• Simple usability problems to avoid: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/30/increasing-online-sales-simple-usability-problems-to-avoid/
• Introduction to HTML5: http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/index.php/html5-tutorial-getting-started/

Only a few I know but with presents it’s not only about the size is it…?