Web Designing 'n' SEO

Accessible Design for Users With Disabilities

2007-06-23T04:36:00.000-07:00

Making the Web more accessible for users with various disabilities is to a great extent a matter of using HTML the way it was intended: to encode meaning rather than appearance. As long as a page is coded for meaning, it is possible for alternative browsers to present that meaning in ways that are optimized for the abilities of individual users and thus facilitate the use of the Web by disabled users. Before discussing the difficulties disabled users may have in accessing Web information, we should note that online information provides many benefits compared with printed information: it is easy for people with poor eyesight to increase the font size, and text-to-speech conversion for blind users works much better for online text than for print. Indeed, many disabled users are empowered by computers to perform tasks that would have been difficult for them with traditional technology. For an example, see aNew York Times article about one of their blind subscibers who now reads the newspaper by going to the Website in Lynx. You can even hear how the article sounds through a screen reader - note how reading is done at very high speed

Plan First

2007-06-23T04:34:00.001-07:00

Choose possible themes for your web site.
Don't try to sell something that has failed off-line.
Brainstorm hundreds of keywords related to your theme.
Use "breakout" techniques for lateral thinking about keywords
Find and record the demand for each keyword
Find and record how many competitors you have for each keyword
Decide if the theme will be profitable, using the above information, and rank the keywords.
Delete keywords that give you off-subject search results
If you want to be an affiliate, find companies that fit your keywords very well.
Use your best keywords to write your main pages, then use the rest for doorway pages.

Web Design Basics

2007-06-23T04:08:00.000-07:00

Web Design & Development

What do I need to make a website?:
Website Information Form:
A free form to organize your website information.
Effective Web design:
What skills are required to design effective websites?
Effective Websites
A few words about effective web design
Why Should I Learn HTML?
Isn't it possible to make websites without learning HTML?
Web Design:Working Faster n smater:
One night as I was hand-coding into the wee hours ...
All the Latest Bells and Whistles:
Does your website need them?
Color Schemes:
What do they have to do with sales?
Website Color Schemes:
Are your website color schemes ... quite right?
How Should Your Website Look?
It might depend on ... who's designing it

Link Building

2007-06-21T04:34:00.001-07:00

Link Building Link building is one of the most important factors of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), as Search Engine algorithms take into account when determining the relevancy and, indirectly, page rank of a site on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). How it Works: Because there are too many websites for critics to visit and individually rank, Google has developed an algorithm that ranks sites based on a number of factors deemed representative of a ‘consumer friendly’ site.

How to Correct and Validate Your HTML

2007-06-21T04:31:00.000-07:00

Validating your HTML documents is an automated process, akin to spell-checking your Word documents. Sounds like a no-brainer that any conscientious Web developer should do, right? However, HTML validators can sometimes return cryptic or arcane-sounding results that may be difficult for Web site developers to determine how to fix. HTML validators may confuse novice Web designers as much as help them.

Writing the Web

2007-06-21T04:29:00.001-07:00

Much has been written on the technical and graphical aspects of web design; these are important issues to be sure, but a central point often forgotten is that we read web sites. Jakob Nielson wrote about this way back in the year 2000 : Of users' first three eye-fixations on a page, only 22% were on graphics; 78% were on text. In general, users were first drawn to headlines, article summaries, and captions.