So it seems all we ever speak about is WordPress WordPress, but don’t forget that you have options when choosing a blog platform. Here are 40 free ways to get started. Danga Software Powered GreatestJournal.com – Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up … Continue reading 40+ Free Blog Hosts →

With the economy in shambles, college tuition rates shooting through the roof, it’s almost as if “the man” is trying to hold us all down. I was recently talking to a friend of mine who told me he had just received his cert from a place called PC Pro Schools. The odd part was how … Continue reading PC Pro Schools – Making The Best of A Bad Economy →

The past of social media is a sad and depressing place like that of a closed down psychiatric ward.  Bland colors and terrible bold neon looking letters.  For giggles were going to show you some of these wonderful, spectacular and amazing websites back in time and how they have shaped up since. To start it … Continue reading How Your Favorite Social Sites Looked In Past →

Business owners these days understand and care a lot about web design, presentation, marketing and even SEO. While design and marketing helps in attracting visitors to a website or a webpage, the business needs to convert them in order to generate sales or at least get leads from the site in question. One important factor … Continue reading 10 Tips To Increase Inquiries Through Your Website Contact Form →

Before we get started, let’s go over some basics here to make sure everyone is on the same page. I know, most of you already know the basics but there will surly be people reading this who don’t. First, let’s cover exactly what a “backlink” is A backlink is a link on one website that … Continue reading What are “Angela and Paul” Backlinks? Are they right for you? →

Earlier today, Apple held its iPhone 4.0 event, where it showcased some of the new features the latest release of the mobile OS will offer. Just after that ended, Apple released a new beta SDK to developers, complete with a new developer license agreement. And nestled in that agreement is a passage that may have … Continue reading The Apple vs Adobe “thing” Just Got a Bit More Serious →

So out of the blue it seems, WP 3 has been released. Either I have somehow missed the news about a new WordPress coming out or they didn’t make much fuss about it. Regardless, it’s here and I’m excited. Download the WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 now! Below is actual post: Remember when I posted earlier … Continue reading WordPress 3.0, Beta 1! Step up and get your copies while they’re hot! →

Designing a successful website has always been a long process, from concept to design and layout to coding, implementation and then testing and deployment.  Sites that required more then a handful of pages and needed to be updated on a regular basis could provide to be steady work for a web designer, but it could … Continue reading CMS (content management systems) In Web Design →

Now more then ever websites are graphically driven, from photo blogs to graphics used to help tell stories, websites have more pages, and more pages with images on them.  Properly optimizing images for the web generally means reducing the file size down as small as possible without negatively impacting the quality of the image.  Doing … Continue reading Optimizing Images For The Web →

Websites, no matter how much text they contain, are visually driven.  Graphic designers surround text with colorful illustrations, photos, every part of a website is visually driven and at the root of these designs is a color palette that’s been choose specifically to compliment the niche of the site and the ease of reading and … Continue reading Staying on top of color trends →