I love pictures and as an avid photographer and all-around web guy I've loving seeing the incredible images people capture, though it matters little if your awesome pictures can't be found. On the web as elsewhere, pictures help to tell the story, as well as visually break up your writing making it easier on the reader, particularly when reading on the web. Pictures are also good for your web traffic and can help people find their way to your site if you use them well. While it can be a little ... Read More →
7 Things You Should Not Do On Your Web Site
Let me start by saying that while every rule is made to be broken it's important to know the rules so you can break them properly (Dalai Lama). While I acknowledge exceptions, there are a few things you should generally avoid, especially on your business website. As a professional web developer, these are a few things I run into more often than I care to admit. They are the opposite of Best Practices, they are truly "Worst Practices" yet a lot of people still do them. If you are considering ... Read More →
Page Navigation in WordPress – Using Sort Order
The following video provides an explanation on how to use sort order so that you get a scalable and organized approach to managing your navigation in WordPress. While geared at WordPress sites, this approach should work for any content management system that provides an automated or semi-automated way of creating navigation. This tutorial assumes that you are using a theme which supports multilevel navigation (i.e. drop down menus) and have a basic familiarity with using WordPress to edit and ... Read More →
5 CSS Tips for Cross Browser Compatibility
Despite the fact that the death of IE6 is upon us getting CSS based websites to work across browser is still a dirty job, so much so I sometimes with Mike Rowe would cover it as a gag episode. Even when IE6 finally does die, there are still issues to be had with IE7+ vs. FireFox, ... So to help things along I'll give you 5 things I always do by default to help build my sites to look good on all browsers right out of the gate. This doesn't mean that more tweaking isn't sometimes required but ... Read More →
Is Twitter Useful?
These days it seems everyone is talking about, writing about and well... tweeting about Twitter. One of the questions I often get, especially from people who are not Twitter users, or are among my not-so-technical friends, is whether or not Twitter is useful. The answer of course is, in the best consulting speak I can muster, "it depends." It depends on: What you want to do If you have the time for it or are willing to put a little work into it If your target audience is on Twitter If you ... Read More →