Feb 23, 2007

I suppose I am a little old school when it comes to writing html and css because I prefer to do it by hand. I use a decent programming editor with syntax highlighting and with tag helps, but I prefer to see the code. Not everyone is like me, so

Feb 22, 2007

I was reminded today when I visited the Google Adsense blog that Google has some interesting wizards that you can use to add ajax addons on your website. The Adsense blog was talking about a news bar, but there is also map search, video bar, video search, and book bar

Feb 22, 2007

I have been working on a website that uses Ajax calls to dynamically load content into the same page with out refreshing. One of the reasons Ajax was chosen was to create a user experience similar to a flash website. The site appears very smooth, and is as close to

Feb 21, 2007

I use Blogger for this blog, mainly because it is easy to use. One of the features of the new Blogger that I like is the ability to add labels to posts, but because I publish via FTP there is no way to use the labels widget that is available

Feb 20, 2007

Most people don't realize that there website can found by using both www.mywebsite.com and mywebsite.com. Why is this important? The search engines will index both the www site and the non-www site, providing the search engine an identical set of pages which could lead to a penalty. While most search

Feb 18, 2007

It never fails, as soon as you write something you end up finding another tool that you should have included. This color tool is from the undisputed master of graphics, Adobe. Kuler is from Adobe labs and allows people view color combinations that others have created online. You can narrow

Feb 17, 2007

I have to admit that I always struggle with getting good color combinations for websites. I often will change colors several times before I decide on what color combination I want to stick with. Things have gotten easier the last few years though because of some very cool web tools

Feb 16, 2007

The world of search engine optimization is huge and depending on what you read the messages can be very different. You don't have to be an SEO expert to do some of the things that professional SEO's do. Here are some things that you can do to

Feb 14, 2007

I was Stumbling last night and came across this great set of glass styled images at bittbox.com. The images come in many different colours and formats including EPS, Illustrator, JPEG, PNG and SVG. My favourites were the RSS Icons and the Badges. Take a look at the freebie category for

Feb 14, 2007

It was confirmed on the Google Adsense blog yesterday that some Google Adsense ads have a tiny shopping cart badge alongside the ad title to signify that people can purchase the item advertised via Google Checkout. What is interesting is what the blog