Articles on Web Development

Keep Your Navigation Simple!

Navigation must be simple. Since it's the backbone of your site, it's imperative that visitors be able to understand it. Here are two tips on how to make simplicity a reality in your site:

1....

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Make Your Navigation Highly Visible

Effective navigation stands out. It's clear, obvious, and highly visible.

You'll need to have a clear section of the page designated for navigation--one that a visitor will immediately...

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Questions to Ask when Designing a Website for clients

Questions to ask when designing a Web Site for your client (s).
Excerpt from the book: Graphic Artists Guild, Handbook Pricing & Ethical guidelines Written by: Brent Parker

These...

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Tapping Into The Visual Stimulus Of Your Web Site Visitors

"Oh, my eyes, my eyes! What an eye sore. Quick, click away! Click away!"

Suddenly I wake up in a cold sweat. What happened. Oh, then I realize: it was just a nightmare.

O.k., I'm not...

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Some Basic Tests To Check Your Website For Accessibility

The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must be made accessible to disabled people. So how can you check that your website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests you can make...

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Web Accessibility. . . Making your Pages Friendly to People with Disabilities

Did you know that nearly 20 percent of all Web users have some form of disability?

Making your site accessible for all is a matter of courtesy, is good business practice, and is not...

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I Dont Need A Website!.Do I?

Once upon a time, in a small home office, a busy entrepreneur wondered why he wasnt quite as busy as he would like to be. I market my business as much as possible, said the entrepreneur, who...

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Advantages for Using FrontPage... maybe this HTML editor has some hidden advantages

Ever since I've been doing SEO work, I've always griped and complained about FrontPage and all the extraneous code it puts in the section of the page, etc.

Then recently, I had the opportunity...

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The Immutable Laws Of Effective Navigation - Part 1

The first immutable law of effective navigation: It's gotta be readily available.

Visitors should not have to hunt for your navigation or wonder where to find it. If you've done your job right,...

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Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?

The great debate: how much copy you should have on your site, particularly on the home page?

Do you subscribe to the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words--and therefore images, not a...

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