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The cool thing about SEO is that it is constantly changing. For instance, Google and Yahoo just changed their algorithms last week. They were left in stasis (or as close to it as possible) for a couple months and people thought they figured them out. Now, it is time to …

A very nice guideline. The key is cross linking with related blogs that you have associated with in the past. Form a community and word will spread.

I enjoy web design, but I also do (and am quite proficient) graphic design work, web marketing, and search engine optimization. I can program the backend of a website too for a variety of uses, so I lean more towards being a web developer.

If the website is configured right, you could charge the client a small fee to develop them a content management system so that they could update the content, add to it, etc. If you are needing to update it yourself and it is a basic web page (mainly html), then …

Wow, this is not good news for us in the short term, but in time we will have protection against it using heuristics.

Web 2.0 is also used as a way to show "who" uses the Internet. The Web 2.0 "generation" tends to be on the Internet far more than Web 1.0 which would be like your parents or grandparents. This is generally used in marketing for designing ways to reach the younger …

Hello cakka, I suggest that you sign up for [URL="http://www.google.com/webmasters/"]Google Webmaster Tools[/URL]. This will allow you to see crawl statistics, site errors, etc. You might have problem with Google crawling your site that you are not aware of, and the tools allow you to find out why. Next, after you …

kceleb9 makes a very good point about the relevance. It all depends on your urls and how easy to follow they are. Another point for sitemaps are for those sites who don't want search engines to follow links. A sitemap would help there. I personally like to use sitemaps for …

You can also help speed up the process by saving the file with "quotes" around the name. This forces Windows to accept the file type. Example: SAVE AS: _________________ SAVE AS: "filename.css" The output would be a CSS style sheet.

Before you start having a member's area, consider what members will get for registering. Can they get all the good articles and discussions without it? Can they view all the articles you have, specialized content, etc. while not logged in? Members will only register if it is worth it to …

The simplest way to center a page horizontally is to make a wrapper div and give it a margin: auto;. That works on all browsers that are used by the majority today.

As others have said, External style sheets are your best method for designing a website. 1) You don't have to edit multiple places to change styles. 2) It allows you to have pages appear differently based on which style sheet is loaded - perfect for dynamic websites. 3) Reuse your …

Sitemaps are generated with generators based on the links they follow to find a page. If you want to include the category, and especially if the generator is picking up no category; then you should check how your wordpress is configured for displaying links. If your wordpress plugin is generating …

Javascript hit counters can be misleading. Since not everyone will have Javascript enabled. In fact, a number of large businesses have it off on all their computers. So, someone from a school's computer for example wouldn't be showing up on your counter so the numbers would be skewed. This also …

Google has changed their algorithm to remove old penalties on some things, allow for basic text reading and indexing for flash movies, and a few other things. They also pushed their in-house PR to be visible in the toolbar.

Firefox has an addon that will give you a preview of what is behind each tab. It is called "Tab Scope" and can be obtained from the Firefox website addon page.

Visit webmaster forums, blogs, and news sites to learn what others like to share.

If you want to develop your site for someone on a "1024px" width, then specify in CSS that the wrapper DIV will have that width. The same would be said for the height.

A density of 3-5% is the general norm. You really should not worry about density from the start. Write your pages for something that would be reader friendly, then look in the content for areas you can plug in keywords without sacrificing your readability.

They are two very different beasts. PPC is like any other marketing campaign, you spend money to make money for a targeted product or service. This is a near immediate result. SEO is optimizing your content to bring in traffic from Search Engines. You may or may not spend money …

Everyone is constantly trying to improve their site, so if you stop trying you will lag behind. Another thing to consider is the quality of the keywords you are competing for. Anyone can get in the top 10 for obscure words.

Here is a website for what you are after. It is made purely with CSS and works with most browsers. [url]http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/default.asp[/url] I assume that when you mean things are added to the list once someone hovers over the section, it loads the rest of the list. You don't need a …

What kind of standards are you looking for? It looks like you are just promoting your links. Give specifics and people would be able to help you.

You can style your form elements in CSS. Perhaps your browser has different default settings than others, or perhaps you have a larger default text size. The only semi-guaranteed way to ensure that things display correctly is to use a CSS styling of the element. If you don't want to …

Outsourcing to other firms over the Internet is not for everyone. You have to consider that anything you outsource, the customer still will come to you if they need something or are unhappy. When you outsource, you are putting your reputation in the hands of someone you may not know …

If you just want to have the form mail the results to an e-mail account, add "mailto:email@server.com" where the e-mail address is that of the account. This would be placed in the "action" property of the form.

Hello Anuj576. In order for someone to fully understand what you are asking, please elaborate what sort of project you are interested in. Do you want to be involved in developing a Content Management System with PHP? Perhaps you want to help develop a form processing script with CGI? If …

Well spotted Midi. One thing that should also be pointed out is that Javascript should not be used for site functionality. If someone doesn't have JS enabled (a number of companies have it disabled on all employee computers), then they won't be able to use the form. If you "must" …

IE has an issue with doing an accurate box model. It also likes to double the margins on floated elements, and collapse margins. These are all triggered from hasLayout. If you want to target IE specifically you can do so in your CSS using the "." hack. [CODE]#thisIsATestID {margin: 5px; …

With a static site, it would involve some sort of tie with your browser's search feature. Real searches are tied to a database, and since you don't have a tie there it would need to access a search engine that has crawled your site.

Concentrate on PHP, ASP, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax and you will be fine. :)

Dreamweaver is not a bad program. However, it is not the best program to learn on. It has many "good" coding techniques, but only if you know what to look for. It makes very jumbled up code if you use design view. Read and learn from tutorials on the web, …

Hello Alimoe. Would you mind elaborating more on what requirement will be done? Will this be a "headhunter" (job placement), a free services advice site, etc.? Without fully knowing what you are expecting the website to mediate, there is not much advice that can be offered.

If you are using Outlook, you need to have it reference the location on your computer. You also need to enable "HTML" in the E-Mail in order to add images.

There are some great tutorials on the Internet about how to use Dreamweaver. The thing you should remember is that Dreamweaver is only an application for building web pages. It is not a language in itself. You must first learn XHTML and CSS, then use the application to build pages. …

You might consider searching on Google for something related to what you were wanting. Say for instance you were wanting Dreamweaver templates, you would search for that.

There are a number of free file hosting sites on the Internet. Just paste the url to the file from that site into the link you have on your page.

Area you wanting to purchase software to handle this, or hire someone to produce it?

PHP can't do it alone. You will need to be sending data to it from somewhere for it to calculate and run on the server prior to the page loading. CSS would be used to format the data as the page renders. Another method you could do, if you had …

What you are doing is floating the div, not the images inside the div. You should target the images. [CODE].float img {float: left; margin: 0 10px;} <div class="float">img img img img</div>[/CODE] That would be the general idea.

I am not aware of any hacks for FF2 like there are with older versions of IE. Firefox follows W3C standards for the most part, unlike IE - so hacks are very hard to come by to target it. With that said, if it isn't showing right in FF, then …

Another option for using the a scrollable area is CSS' overflow property. It would allow you to also get a number of cross-browser compatibility too. [CODE]<style type="text/css"> <!-- div.scroll { height: 200px; width: 300px; overflow: auto; border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #ccc; padding: 8px; } --> </style> [/CODE]

You can run into some issues with IE7 making a break in your page if you are not turning off the overflow. This is a common method to clear floated elements. [CODE].clearfix:after { content:"."; display:block; height:0; clear:both; visibility:hidden; } .clearfix {display:inline-block;} /* Hide from IE Mac \*/ .clearfix {display:block;} /* …

Hello, while I am not new to web design, I am new to developing an XHTML 1.0 Strict site using divs and not tables. I am trying to revamp my website to use this, and it is proving a challenge making it compliant in Firefox, IE 6, and IE 7. …