Archive for November, 2008
How to Handle Clients and their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Concerns?
You may notice that the title of this post has a question mark. Steven Wanless left me a good comment on yesterday’s post regarding how PageRank actually works. In his comment Steven brings up a really good question. How do you handle a situation where a client knows too much about SEO, or even just [...]
Explanation of How PageRank Actually Works (Video)
We often get inquires from clients on how to get a higher PageRank. In generally I think the name PageRank is deceiving for many clients. Most clients who have heard of PageRank are under the impression that PageRank refers to their actual ranking for a search term when in reality it is more a calculation [...]
MooTools / JavaScript Popup Calendar / Date Picker for HTML Forms
MooTools 1.1: If you’re using MooTools 1.1 on a project here is a great MooTools based calendar / date picker popup for use in HTML forms. It is very easy to get running and also to customize. Both the style and position of the calendar can easily be modified. The author also has good instructions [...]
The Relationship Between Web Design Agency and Client is Fundamentally Broken
About an hour ago Paul from BoagWorld made a post on the BoagWorld blog regarding his talk at the Future of Web Design Conference in New York. His talk discussed the relationship between a web design agency and their clients. He suggests there are three things required to run a successful web project: – Mutual [...]
How to Make a Fixed Background Image Using CSS
This is just a simple bit of CSS but I thought I would probably need it again in the future. Adding a fixed background image to a website is something I do very rarely but every now and then there is cause for it. The code I have shown below demonstrates how to add a [...]
Ranking MySQL Results by Multiple Columns
Today I got a request from a reader to make a post about how to rank MySQL results by multiple columns. This is actually really easy to do so it shouldn’t take long to explain. Basically when doing the query you can just add multiple items in the ORDER BY argument in your MySQL query. [...]
Pano – Panoramic Photo App for the iPhone and iPod Touch
I discovered a new app this morning that is really cool. Since I am writing this at 3:47 AM it is too dark to really give it a good try but I looked up some examples online and it appears to work great. What the app does is it assists you in stitching together up [...]
A Brief Review of CSS Toolbox
I came across a neat program over the weekend called CSS Toolbox. It is a simple CSS editor. It is much like other CSS editors I have played with in the past. There are some great CSS editing programs for Mac users but there are less good sound choices for PC users. CSS Toolbox is [...]
A Non-Review of Dreamweaver CS4
I have used Dreamweaver on and off for a long, long time. I have lived through many versions of the software. It has been my primary development environment for most of my web development career. During these years it has received a lot of criticism from developers because of bloated and messy code created by [...]
A Bundle of Grunge Photoshop Tutorials
At Zipline we’re currently working on a website that needs to have a modern, fun, and grungy feel to it. I really like some of the designs I have seen in this style but it can be tough to pull of some of those effects without looking really cheesy. While I was browsing around on [...]