Tag Archives: life on the road
Start With Compliance
Before you can get your web page noticed, you have to make sure all the parts fit together and it works properly. Why? Well, in order to be seen, the page has to work. In other words, all the pieces and parts must be read by the user’s Internet browser, interpreted, and displayed upon the […]
Validating the Code Behind the Page
Checking Content Begin your web page validation by checking the content of your page. It’s actually fairly simple. Is everything spelled correctly? Are the sentences compete? Is the grammar right? While this should be done at the time of creation, after you’ve messed around with the code for a while, you often have a fresh […]
Test Driving WordPress
There is a lot to think about in preparation for putting WordPress on our site and ramming our site down its throat. The first thing I needed to do was set up a “test” area on my site to start working on all of this. If it is a complete failure, then I can delete […]
Get Ready for Search Engines
Preparing your Website for search engines means tackling the following: Searcher’s Needs Search Engine Requirements Meta Tags Content Viability Internal Links External Links Linkability How Do Search Engines Work? There are several kinds of search engines. Some collect their own data through “robots” or “spiders”, software that crawls through the web, tracking the various links […]
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 […]
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 […]
House on Your Back, You’re Ready for Work
There is something exciting about working on the road. The view outside your window changes frequently. You meet new people every day. Living in an RV, you can sleep in your own bed each night. There are new challenges all the time. You get to see the country and expand your mental and physical horizons. […]