A bit more than a month ago I was listening to a podcast between Jeremy Wright and Tyme talking about blog networks. During the conversation the topic of feed statistics came up. Jeremy astutely mentioned how most website statistics programs count a “feed check” (my term) as a page view. This certainly isn’t desirable. Why?
I’m about to launch a new website, this time one I developed for my own purposes rather than another client. Ultimately I needed to decide what I would use for a domain name. Based on the service being offered, the most logical domain name choices were already taken, so I needed to become a little [...]
Once people understand the concept of how inbound links can increase your search engine rank, the next question comes “How do I find sites to link to me?” Does your industry have any association websites? Are you a member of a chamber of commerce that includes links? Soon people exhaust the more obvious potential linkers [...]
Determining how fast a particular website or webpage loads can be a difficult task. Many factors come into play such as server load, network traffic, the visitor’s computer, the visitor’s internet connection, etc.
Assuming all of those factors are working as designed, how fast should a webpage load? A seven second rule has been cited many [...]
One of the bigger struggles I have as a website developer is explaining to people the difference between actual text, and a graphic image of text. Think of the photographs from your last vacation. Do you have any photos of yourself or your family beside a sign showing where you were? (If not, just pretend [...]