Web Design

Writing an Effective “About Me” Page

by Heidi Hafner April 30, 2012

Your “About Me” page on your website is your introduction to yourself and your product to your reader and potential customer. This is where you make your first impression with your reader. I tell my clients that the number one most important page on their website is the “About Me” page. Why is that? 1.     [...]

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Browser Updates

by Heidi Hafner April 25, 2012

Do you frequently check for updates to your favorite browsers? It is very important to me as a web designer to I stay on top of browser updates because I have to build web pages to accommodate the top browsers out there. With security leaks always an issue, and then HTML5 and CSS3 working its [...]

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Let’s Talk About Backlinking

by Heidi Hafner March 28, 2012

Backlinking is probably the most important factor taken in to account when assessing your web pages for search engine rankings. Last week, I wrote about keywords and keyword phrasing being important to search engines. Check out the article, “Have You Overused SEO in Your Website?” In that article, I stated the importance of creating keywords [...]

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Google Currents: The New Kid on the Block for Mobile Devices

by Heidi Hafner March 25, 2012

I found this article, “How to Publish your Blog or Website to Google Currents.” I found myself a bit excited for something new to share with all my clients and friends. Google is now offering a new service. It’s called “Google Currents.”It claims to take information from your websites or blogs & lets you view [...]

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Have You Overused SEO in Your Website?

by Heidi Hafner March 21, 2012

Are you overusing SEO to boost your website content? Recently, I found this headline on one of the Site Promotion websites I visit periodically. It said, “Google Plans to Penalize Sites That Overuse SEO.” That’s definitely an eye catcher especially when you have worked so hard to get your website listed at the top of [...]

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Who Says You Don’t Need a Google Profile?

by Heidi Hafner January 13, 2012

As a web designer, I do my best to make my websites hit the top of the search engine results. Let me tell you, it is a battle, especially when the rules are always changing! It used to be that all you had to do was input a “title”, “keywords”, and a “description” in your [...]

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Looking For Internet Explorer/HTML5 Fix For

by Heidi Hafner September 3, 2011

So, I have been testing out the <audio> tag and am having some trouble. I see Remy Sharp’s shiv (http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js) which helps quite a bit for Firefox, Chrome, etc. However, I am having trouble getting the tag to work in older versions of IE. I’ve found that if I use the <embed> tag, it works [...]

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5-Important Rules for Designing Your Website

by Heidi Hafner August 28, 2011

So, you’re thinking of building a website, right. Perhaps you already have a website and you want to make some improvements. You should consider some very essential things before you go designing your website. Let’s discuss a few very important rules about designing a website that performs well. 1. DO NOT use splash pages! A [...]

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Creating Fluid Web Pages using Image Borders

by Heidi Hafner September 24, 2009

This week I have been working on a redesign of one of my web sites. The design of the website was acceptable by my client, but the desire was to maintain the same look of the page but make the pages more fluid. What this means is that the web page will shrink or expand [...]

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Link Exchanges/Link Farms – Good or Bad

by Heidi Hafner August 25, 2009

The other day, I received a very courteous email from a webmaster looking to increase the rankings of his web pages. I have spent the last few days contemplating his request. First, what are Link Exchanges & Link Farms? Link farming is the process of exchanging reciprocal links with web sites in order to increase [...]

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