Developer & Designer Reading Resources

If your looking for well written books covering an array of technologies and design then check out Friends of Ed (an Apress Publishing Company). They offer the source code and sample files for all there publications which makes for a nice resource for learning something new (book purchase not required for source code download).

Using Your Visitor Logs

Experiment with your user logs to measure how successful your site is at adding new readers and retaining your regular customers.†Any good business has to know who its regular customers are and how the new customers are getting their information. From this research, you can then build lasting relationships and form new ones for long-term website growth!

If you are like most webmasters or bloggers, you are constantly searching for fresh ideas to add content to your website. You are already well aware that adding more pages to your site will enhance your search engine rankings. You realize that you require more keyword phrases to find their way into searches. The question arises as to where to find ideas that appeal to your visitor traffic. The answer may lie in your own visitor traffic logs. Read the rest of this entry »

CSS Crib Sheet

You will no doubt come across many quirky layout issues when building a site with CSS. You’ll end up banging your head against a wall time and again. This is an attempt to make the design process easier, and provide a quick reference to check when you run into trouble. Read the rest of this entry »

Keep CSS Simple

When I wrote my first CSS styled Web site I assumed the old, overly-complex way of looking at Web site creation was on the way out. Web developers were consciously moving towards a simpler way of making sites, or so I fondly imagined.

Not so. The complexity monster has reappeared, right in the center of modern Web development. Nowadays it doesn’t manifest itself as an endlessly nested table, but as an endlessly complicated CSS hack.

Our beloved CSS is in danger. Read the rest of this entry »