Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen
The Keywords Inside
Imagine a search engine spider or robot as a giant filter or colander. It pours your web pages through the colander and all the stuff it decides is useless is left in the colander and the useful stuff pours through, entering their searchable database ready for the search engine user to sift through with their […]
Web Page Optimization
There are two main aspects to preparing your pages for exposure to the World Wide Web. First is validation, the process of checking and rechecking the structure and design elements of a page to meet the standards. The other is a form of site maintenance, often called optimization – the process of fixing, repairing, maintaining, […]
Linkability – Link Popularity
After you’ve validated your web page’s code, content for search engines, is there anything else you can do to maximize your search engine ranking? Yes, there is. It’s known as “linkability” or “link popularity”. Google and other modern search engines are now determining a website’s ranking using the theory that if everyone is talking about […]
Preparation for Website Search Engine Submission
After you have produced amazingly worthwhile material and resources, other than getting the pages submitted to search engines, what could possibly be left? Okay, there are a few things left to do. Start by rechecking your code, both HTML and CSS. This process of cleaning involves triple checking that all the codes are accurate and […]
Website Development – Make a Schedule and Calendar
Wait! We’re Not Done! Make a Schedule! Yes, there is still MORE to do to fine-tune your website into a precision working machine. Part of keeping a viable website is to keep it current and updated. Another task is to monitor your web site to keep it visible to the search engines. Set up a […]
International Standards
Yes, we’re still not done. There is even more you need to know when it comes to web page and site development. While the following items are not required for everyone, they are well worth considering. International Challenges While the majority of web pages are in English, moves by the UN and other international groups […]
Winning Web Page and Website Awards
For your information, we’ve provided a list of sites which offer awards for web pages and Websites based upon different criteria: design, layout, structure, content, accessibility, and overall quality. If you are interested in winning awards for your web page design and development, make sure your site is award-winning first and then you may submit […]
Computer Fun and Games
So many people seem so panicked and fearful of their computer, from worrying about viruses and the horrors coming in through their email to the fear they might touch something and make it crash and blow up – I thought I’d take a moment to share with you the fun things you can do with […]
CSS Tips and Tricks
While we avoid a lot of whizbang tricks, we have used a few here and there. Most recently, we discovered some useful tricks when designing a “fancy” version of our web page layout. A major part of these we turned into our CSS Experiments. As nature photographers and instructors, Brent likes to teach the following […]
CSS Tips and Tricks – Jazzing Up the Content
We’ve show how to jazz up a web page’s content within a container or box. Now it is time to look at some tips and tricks for jazzing up the content. CSS Text Effects There are a variety of text characteristics you can also add to jazz up your text. First of all, you can […]
CSS Tips and Tricks – Filters and Transforming Text
Flippin’ Filter Fun: flipv and fliph There are tons of filters you can have fun with with your CSS experiments. Remember, these only work on a few browsers, so test them out before putting them into use. Firefox and older browsers have trouble with these, though Microsoft Internet Explorer’s latest versions display these well. We […]
CSS Tips and Tricks – Backgrounds and Transparencies
We’ve done a lot of different CSS experiments, pushing CSS to its limits with fun and jazzy text, filters, horizontal and vertical flipping, and more, and now it’s time to tackle some fun with more filters. Be sure and check out more of our CSS Experiments to help you expand your imagination with what is […]
File Sharing – Kazaa, Kazaa Lite, eDonkey, Bit Torrent, LimeWire, and More
Living overseas away from easily accessible mail order, stores, and media outlets, as well as most of our personal music and video collection, we are truly blessed to be able to take advantage of peer-to-peer file sharing programs to allow us to hear and see media that we miss terribly. There is a lot of […]
Hoaxes, Rumor Mills, Chain Letters, and Online Trash
Make money now! Send this email to 10 people in the next 5 days…! Boycott X! Did you know you can die from soap scum? Be terrified. Be warned! Be afraid! Be happy! Spread the good word! Share with your friends! Tell everyone you know! Excuse me, before we get too carried away here, STOP! […]