Usually there is a huge gap in making a web site look good and making it optimized. To add animations and cool effects you either need to use Flash, which cannot be indexed by search engines, or you need to use JavaScript, which is extremely difficult and time consuming. But there’s good news on the horizon. CSS 3 is currently being drafted, and is providing some awesome animation and graphics tools to web designers. The best part? CSS...

If you use images in your web pages, it is good practice to include Alt text for every image that a visitor to your site will see. ALT tags filled with keywords can also be used to boost your keyword frequency and help you achieve better rankings. Many businesses disregard image SEO or do it incorrectly. They are missing out on an easy opportunity for better rankings.. Images that have no text describing what they are cannot be read by...

When retailers think about redesigning their web sites, they expect the redesign to boost their sales immediately. Before doing the redesign, retailers need to figure what consumers want to do and how easy it will be to satisfy them. Shoppers visit ecommerce web sites not only to make purchases, but to gather product information, read or write product reviews etc. It is important that the site design allows the consumers to easily find...

How does your web site design look these days? Does your web design look professional compared to your competitors? Do the links work properly on your web site and does your web site download fast? If the answer is no, it is time to change your web site to a professional web design. After all, image is everything. You do not go on job interview with ripped jeans and expect to be hired. You dress for the job that you want and those that...

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a format for laying out html content, commissioned by the W3C. When HTML was first created, it was a format for documents. There were ways to format text, (making it bold, changing the size, color, etc.), there were ways to insert images, but there wasn’t really a way to layout a page. People who really knew HTML began using tables to lay out pages, since it was the only real way to control page...

Who decides the correct syntax of HTML or CSS code? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), founded in October of 1994, sets the current standards for valid HTML and CSS code. If your code does not meet these standards, this is a large problem, and should be fixed as soon as possible. Here are some issues that can arise if your code does not the HTML and CSS standards: Pages do not display correctly in browsers, which can cause a whole number...