I make efforts to get relevant and established sites to link to me, and I approach some that I think my visitors may be interested in.
Why then do I receive so many pointless mass emails asking imaker to link to them in return for a very poor reciprocal link. Always on the look-out for something interesting, unusual and / or the worthwhile amongst the rubbish, I do look through them, even though the majority are rubbish. Continue reading
I have been writing the odd article about subjects that don’t really fit anywhere into this blog, yet still web design related. These articles have received reasonable circulation and seem to have an affect on this websites overall ranking, however, that wasn’t really the point. Continue reading
The web design business is such that I’m being asked more often to recommend web hosting. It’s an area I’ve always stayed away from, partly because it is a very crowded market and partly because I felt my area of expertise lay elsewhere. However, a host I had been with for some years began to show a lack of customer care and was rather trite with some questions. I had several sites with them and became concerned that all was not well with the service and so decided to look elsewhere for a host that showed a better concern for their customers and fulfilled our criteria for hosting. Continue reading
Another month slipped by and no posts. We at iMaker have been busy over the period since last posting, with new websites ordered, built and launched. We have certainly seen an increase in the number of enquiries coming through so have high hopes for the future. Thanks to all those involved and long may it continue.
Elsewhere the big G still seems to be struggling, Continue reading
Back in May I posted about the amount of spam I was receiving. Like everyone else I know, they’re receiving an absolute deluge of the stuff particularly over the last couple of months and any defence has become very valuable. My inbox is pretty well taken care of, but the amount of “comment” spam this blog was receiving was intolerable. Continue reading
The end of November is here already, can’t believe it. It has been an exceptionally busy couple of months. Good number of websites ordered, designed and completed with more coming through regularly and lots of quotes out. Continue reading
I launched a new site over the weekend for a Florida Villa Rental for a client. Really went back to basics with the layout design using a two column standard layout. This layout has been quite effective in achieving the client’s requirements. There is more work to be done on the overall site, but am satisfied it’s looking the way intended and with a cms, should be very easy for the client to look after and update.
I posted before about Microsoft withdrawing FrontPage from their product range in this post. You can probably guage from that post that I’m not a great fan of this particular piece of software, but a lot of people are and there are a lot of FrontPage built websites in existence. Continue reading
There are so many of these tools about we decided to add a page (seo tools) to our own site with a list of the free online seo tools we use regularly and would like to share with a wider audience. Some are well known, some are not, each is very good at a specific task and each one is the quickest to use that we have found. Hope they will be as useful to you as they are to us.
When displaying images when should you use ALT and TITLE attributes? I was recently asked this and it got me thinking about the what and why.
According to the W3C the ALT attribute is required, but the TITLE attribute is not. Continue reading
