Tag: Web Design
Is the traffic to *your* website the best it can be?
Are you satisfied with the amount of traffic that you currently have coming to your websites? Chances are, you need more traffic and are struggling for a sustainable way of getting more people to your website. Unfortunately, so many traffic courses out there focus on fly-by-night, “gone tomorrow” traffic methods that only work for a [...]
Progress With Change Of Blog-Website Theme
Recently I mentioned that my blog is being redeveloped. Yesterday I started phase one of the blog theme change. All is going well, however I am not yet finished. My choice for new Theme – Da Vinci by Solostream – has proven excellent. In the past I have tried/reviewed a good variety of premium business [...]
Change of Blog-Website Theme
The WordPress theme I use for this blog-website is about to change. In recent times, I have been using Frugal. Frugal has been a good theme, though it did take a lot of work to get it configured just right. There are key elements of the design which I like a lot, however it is [...]
IE9 beta bug crapped all over a key program.
Earlier today I installed the Internet Explorer 9 Beta. At first I was impressed, but not enough to switch from Chrome. At last, I thought, Microsoft has produced a browser which works well and does not cause problems. (By the way, I am an experienced computer user and first learnt programming in 1981 = the [...]
QR Codes – Essential For Websites – Quick Easy Creation
QR Codes – what are they? Why do you need one? How can you create a QR Code? To kick off, you might want to take a look at an article I wrote on the subject over 2 years ago: QR Codes, Internet Marketing and the mobile web. Please bear in mind though that some [...]
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” released – see my key tips
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” has been released. It looks fantastic. Personally, I will wait a week or so (or more) before I upgrade. Here are some of my reasons: Allowing time to pass so that I can be sure there are no major hassles or issues with the new release. Allowing the plugin developers to update [...]
Facebook cussedness & my new Fan Page
****** Start of Facebook post ****** Hmm…my Facebook fan page , which I created yesterday, is not importing blog posts properly. Looking into it. Facebook is in some respects a ‘cussed’ application – counter intuitive, works in strange ways, feels like it has been thrown together and so on. I am not alone in my [...]
Photo sharing – the most buttery smooth experience.
We have all heard of Flickr and similar photo sharing services. Some of us may have tried some of the more professional applications. Last year I needed to find a top class way of sharing my photos. I looked at many options, including applications which I could host on my own server, special software and [...]
Web usability – blog tag cloud.
This post is about user friendly blog tag clouds. If you look across to the right you will see a section called Tags. The Tags box shows all the tags that I have used up until now. Clicking on a tag will bring up a list of all the articles that I have tagged with [...]
Be part of the IN crowd – register a .IN domain name.
Do you know much about domain names? Did you know how easy it is to buy and register a domain name? Did you know that you can buy a domain name from a top class domain registrar for a really good price and get loads of great free extras? Even a free email account and [...]
My experience with Windows 7 Beta
Windows 7, the next version of Windows after Vista, has been officially released by Microsoft as a Beta this weekend. I decided to install it on my spare Dell notebook computer. (I keep a spare computer because it means that I would have limited downtime if my main computer suffered a major failure. Because my [...]
Good source of inexpensive images
Within the last week I have written two other posts with a graphics theme. One was about a great source of ClipArt and the other about a free image resizing program. Good quality images can make all the difference to a website. I always ensure that I put a lot of effort into picking the [...]
Easy image resizing.
Following on from my blog post two days ago on Clipart: Great source of Clipart Here are some details about a very nifty free photo resizing program which will help you to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. I have been using this program – PIXresizer – [...]
Great source of Clipart
I love using images in my websites and blogs. Besides being a very logical person, I have a really strong creative side, however my drawing age is stuck at around age 6 and a half. Ghastly! And no, I have none for sale! I am a very visual person and appreciate subtle variations and atmosphere. [...]
