While I wait for some time to free up so I can completely revamp this old effort of a website, I thought it was about time to share another great little CSS3 snippet that will really help with some design ideas. Slanted Header Elements Slanted [...]
Recently a client had a problem with a Google Map that had controls that were squashed and looked broken. Fortunately this is an easy fix, with a little CSS hack. Try adding the following to your CSS and the controls should look as intended. .gmnoprint [...]
Google has seen some pretty drastic search system transformations in the past year, and Matt Cutts, the head of Google's web spam team is often the anchorman behind the breaking news and other important developments in the SEO industry. And through the Googlewebmasterhelp channel on [...]
Do you want to become a web developer? If you're looking to become a good web programmer or web developer, like most things there are ordinarily two ways people will go about achieving this. As with learning any subject you have the option to: 1. [...]
Since Google's Hummingbird landed it would be fair to say that things have taken a very different direction where content writing is concerned. “Semantics” quickly became the new buzz word in SEO circles, but despite Google's new semantic methodology, things really haven't changed that much [...]
Much has been made of Google's Hummingbird and its all new “intent” methodology. Google claims it knows what you're looking for and it will evolve into something to behold. So while I can understand Google's optimism for a brighter search related future, I do have [...]
If you're interested in becoming a web programmer, a vital consideration is obviously which programming language to learn. Websites today aren't usually constructed using just one language and you'll find it's necessary to be versed in a number of programming languages to really make a [...]
The A to Z of SEO This article (updated December 15th 2013) contains what I consider many of the most important factors in SEO, from A to Z, from Authority to Zeitgeist, and is based on SEO information accumulated over the past two years, drawing [...]
The following infographic of how a Google search works (courtesy of the big "G" itself) breaks down the information into its most basic form, illustrating the individual steps of the search process, from before you click the search button, to calculating the exact rankings, to [...]
Finding a web developer that's able to turn the web design concept that's in your head into a reality can be a great source of frustration - after all, we're not all like minded and on the same page - and working through line after [...]
Jobcoachingforyou.com was founded in 2013 by Karl Dean, a native English speaker from Manchester but living in Nürnberg Germany since 2010. Prior to founding Job Coaching For You Karl worked in sales, language and communication training and essentially also specialised and also supply chain recruitment [...]
Most WordPress developers are familiar with Gravity Forms. It's a contact form plugin that allows you to easily build and publish your forms in just minutes, with the minimum of hassle. No mess, just quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and [...]
It stands to reason that providing video content for your website will be something that your visitors will be happy to see. Video is a far more engaging way to interact with web site visitors and it can save your guests reading through lots of [...]
If you haven't taken a look at part one of our Web Design Frinton project, please do so before going any further. It should help this article make a little more sense. Oh, fine. You probably haven't got the time for all that so here [...]
Web Design in Frinton on Sea It's been a while since I wrote any SEO related articles, but since I've given my site a minor facelift I thought I'd do a little Google research to see how I'm doing. My previous SEO experiments went pretty [...]
Today was essentially my first experience of Gravity Forms, the WordPress forms plugin and it would be fair to say it came with its fair share of use niggles, but nothing that I couldn't overcome. Here's the three things I found that may help users [...]
I must admit I love the Easter Bunny, and how he gets around with all those chocolate eggs still mystifies me to this very day. I'm sure DHL are in on it somehow... Anyway, to celebrate my chocolate-filled expanding waistline at this time of year, [...]
Since re-launching my website a few hours ago, I've already received comment about the quotes that frequent the header area of the site. While some are my own work, much credit has to go to designwashere for their design related ones. I've listed more below [...]
Recovering from a WordPress Spam Injection attack is not fun, but you can regain your Google Search Results after being hacked by a spam injection attack. The best policy with Google is to be specific in your explanations. You will need to make sure that [...]
1. Open your index.php and find <?php get_footer(); ?> 2. Place a HTML comment that you can easily recognize, before and after Something like: <!– footer content starts Here –> <?php get_footer(); ?> <!– footer content ends Here –> 3. Visit your blog 4. View the [...]
