Archive for May, 2004

Office Redesign = Web Redesign?

Monday, May 31st, 2004

Eris Free has a nice post at her blog that compares redesigining an office space to that of redesigning a website. I never quite thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense!

Cross Browser Rich-Text Editor

Monday, May 31st, 2004

Yet another Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor. Not too long ago, the only browser that supported inline rich text editing was IE. It’s nice to see Mozilla in the mix now too!

This Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor has no license, so you can just grab the code and use it for any purpose.

The Cost of Page Rank

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Douglas Bowman of StopDesign has posted an interesting article titled – The Cost of Page Rank. He documents two cases where high page ranking has caused adverse effects on his site.

Addictive Flash Game – Bowman

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Bowman is a fun and oddly addictive Flash game that can be played alone or with others on the Internet.

[link via flex-mx]

Example Design Project—The Band

Friday, May 28th, 2004

D. Keith Robinson is about to embark on a really cool project. Essentially he is going to create a website for a fictional band. The cool part is that he is going to prove that a band site can be cool while at the same time useable and he is going to completely document the process from start to end. I’ll be watching!

Techniques for Keyword Research

Friday, May 28th, 2004

SEOrank.com has a very good article that will help you Research techniques for keyword research, keyword analysis & keyword optimization. The article has lots of great tips and example techniques.

From their site, they state that :

“Identifying the right keywords for your website is crucial starting point in your SEO campaign. Select focused yet popular keywords which have ranking potential based on your PageRank.”

Simple CSS Tabs

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Daniel Burka from SilverOrange Labs has a nice tutorial that shows you how to create Simple CSS Tabs. His code allows for secondary menus which is placed in a nested list, so that they are semantically meaningful.

The code has been well tested and works in all major browsers and platforms.

19 Common Mistakes that will Hurt your Search Ranking

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Sofware maker Axandra explains that a good search engine ranking can be prevented by these 19 mistakes. Their article has some great tips that show you the things not to do when trying to improve your search engine ranking.

Standards Compliant Quicktime Embedding

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Embedding Quicktime movies into your webpages, generally requires you to use the <embed> element. While this element works in most browsers, <embed> is not supported by the W3C in XHTML documents.XHTML Quicktime Object

Here is a tutorial that will show you how to add Standards compliant quicktime webpages.

[link via mezzoblue]

Free Fireworks/Photoshop Plugins

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Richard Rosenman has a nice collection of free Photoshop/Fireworks Plugins. There are over 20 plugins listed on this page, with the first two being shareware, but the rest are free and work very well.