A good screen capture tool is an essential part of the web designer’s arsenal. I often need to grab part of a web page or a graphic or icon and then pull it into PhotoShop. Of course, you can just hit the Print Screen button, but it’s a pain to edit out all the stuff you don’t need. Read More
Author: Christian Watson
High Rankings’ SEO Process
by Jill Whalen
The first thing I do when starting a new SEO campaign is find out the goals for the site and the optimization in general.
For instance, is the goal simply to drive more targeted traffic to the site or is it to get people to sign up for a newsletter? Is the goal to get someone to make a purchase online, or is it to entice people to call or fill out a form requesting more information?
Read MoreProblems with Macromedia’s Activation Policy
I just learned that Macromedia’s product licenses are only valid for a single operating system. What this means is that if you want to transfer Macromedia software from a Windows machine to a Mac (because, say, you “finally saw the light”), you can’t.
eHealthcare Leadership Awards: You Are a Winner!
Not that I’m one to blow my own trumpet (well, ocassionally, perhaps), but one of the sites I manage for my day job recently won the eHealthcare Leadership Award for best site design in the category Hospital with 200-399 beds.
It’s the first time I’ve entered a site into an awards program, so I’m pretty chuffed about the outcome.
Looking for a SharePoint Developer
Do you know how to customize and administer SharePoint? Do web bots get you hot? Do you love to get deep into FrontPage? Do you hunger for proprietary tags? (Do you have a sense of humor?)
Web Stats – What to Believe?
What web stats package do you have? Do you trust it? My web hosting package comes with three pre-installed: Awstats, Webalizer and Analog. I was always pretty content to use Awstats as it produced comprehensive, easy-to-read statistics.
Our Movable Type Intranet is Live
A long time ago, Keith Robinson posted about the intranet redesign project our web team was undertaking (first post, second post, third post).
Due to various factors outside of our control, the project has taken much longer than we originally envisaged (11 months as opposed to about 4), and Keith moved on to pastures new before he was able to see our project through to completion.
My RSS Feed URL Has Moved
I’ve just started using FeedBurner to distribute my RSS feed. Consequently, the URL for my feed has changed. I would be grateful if any subscribers could update their RSS readers to point to http://feeds.feedburner.com/smileycat.
How to Automatically Number Blog Comments
I realize I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but there may be other folks out there who would also like to automatically number their blog comments and don’t know how or think it might be too difficult. Read More