September 2011
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Update Your Browser!
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Your Website’s Call to Action
When you’re driving on the freeway in the U.S., you’ll be sure to see a hamburger on a billboard. Not just any hamburger, but a hamburger with lusciously red tomatoes, crisp onions, glistening lettuce, plump buns, juicy meat, and cheese melting into a perfectly placed sigh of gooey deliciousness. This highly styled burger may have…
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The Light on Dark Website
Generally speaking, light text on a dark background is not a good idea. For anyone with limited vision, and for most people over 55, it’s hard to read. Since our goal is generally to get as many eyes as possible reading our websites, it’s clear that white on black isn’t the ideal — nor, as…
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CMS Frustrations (and a Joomla guide)
You had your site built with a content management system so you wouldn’t have to fuss with having someone make changes for you at your site. You want to be able to change a price, a photo, or a product description without hiring somebody for the purpose.
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Keyword Myths
The other day at a forum I saw a “keyword trick.” The writer said that she would look for questions that were frequently asked, and then determine who was “doing SEO” on those questions by finding the number of sites with those words in the title.When she found a common question with little competition, she’d…
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The Main Point of Your Website
Here’s the new site that Dr. Tom Hapgood’s web design class created for a local charity.