Is the web planning process really that important? I personally think that it depends on the size of the project, but yes at least a basic planning process should be used for EVERY project. Below is a pretty advanced process, I would use it as a guideline and just skip sections that you don’t think [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Design Disrepair
Stats on the number of websites out there: News.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Kludge = html static pages with PHP shopping carts, very messy coding…
Five Tips
Learn the building codes
Valid HTML & CSS
Section 508 Compliance
Graceful Degradation
No CSS Hacks!
Set Realistic Goals
Overdo & Overbudget is bad for business
Have the right tools
Photoshop
Textmate
Transmit
Dreamweaver
Web Dev Toolbar
VM Ware Fusion
Firefox 2 & 3, Safari, Internet Explorer 6 & [...]
Search Engine Marketing & Optimization
Currently Google holds about 60% of the market share for search engine traffic. Below are some advise on what you should do to increase your chances of getting top rankings for particular keywords.
Keyword Research
wordze.com
trends.google.com
keyworddiscovery.com
wordtracker.com
Code to use
<title> & <h1> - under 70 characters, contain main keywords
meta description - 200 characters, highly descriptive and use of good [...]
