Web Design And SEO
September 23, 2008
Working on the internet industry for more than ten years, I spent most of my time browsing for websites having good designs for inspirational purposes as well as client design research. I spent my free time blogging and forum postings which provides me up-to-date information on current trends about search engine optimization and web design as well.
One major thing that disappoints me a lot is finding websites that were created without proper preparation and poor design. These web owners have no idea that they are missing the opportunity of becoming successful. Some of these web design mistakes fall on the following :
· Poor/slow load time
· Poorly designed
· Poor spelling/Grammar
· No contact information - particularly an address
· Poorly designed navigation
· Hard to read text
· Broken links
· Poor cross-browser compatibility ( problems with CSS websites)
· Over-sized, slow loading graphics
· Too many graphics
· Horizontal scrollbars
· Very long pages / too much information on one page
· To much flash graphics
· Poor choice of color scheme
· Use of frames
· Too many pop up windows
· Poor content organization
· Advertising banners
· Too many different colors
· Under construction signs Read more
If You Want A Beauty Blog
July 10, 2008
Are you pondering picking up your pen and immersing yourself in your very own beauty blog? Your thoughts generate insightful, sometimes random as well as useful ideas daily that have convinced you to share them with the masses. What better place could you choose to publish your best stuff than in your very own blog. I get that! So it’s time to put your efforts towards harnessing who you are and what you want to talk about in order to choose just the right domain name. That domain will become your new identity as well as set the stage for your branding.
Not so Quick! Last night I was giving thought to my beauty blog’s name, Italkbeauty. How limiting is the word beauty? Is it at all? In the beginning stages of planning out my blog “Beauty” in my minds eye was limited to primarily women, cosmetics, product reviews, beauty tips, etcetera. After awhile my thoughts evolved regarding my blog and I realized that beauty encompasses many different areas not limited to just women looking beautiful or finding more items to assist them in becoming more beautiful. Interesting thought and highly liberating! In that moment, I realized that I did not necessarily need to ditch my original identity but that instead I would have the ability to embrace other meaningful topics while maintaining my original intention of focusing on Beauty. You can imagine my excitement in the realization that my boundaries had just opened up considerably. Read more
Blog Design And The Origin
July 2, 2008
It is great that the phrase blog floats around the net day in and day out, but what if you have no idea what a blog really is? Is this going to be helpful to your web site? No, not really. Here we will offer the skinny on the phrase blog, and you can decide for yourself if it may or may not be useful in your web pages. This way you will not be wasting your time on something you may not need, and the energy can be put to something you find more useful for yourself.
The term blog refers to weblog and it is in every fashion not a commercial or professional site. It is more of the personal nature, for comment or web site material. Generally the most recent information on a blog is kept at the top of the page, as blog’s are dated log formats. Often they will have commentary of other sites or links directing you to them. Many times the site is dictated by group links and the log is updated frequently. The opinion is this is the very first weblog was back in 1993 it was the Mosaic. This was generally a compiling of links that where kind of disregarded. It took until 1998 for they’re to be a mere handful of these so called blog’s in existence. The blogger all knew each other and were swapping the links between each other. Read more