It is absolutely important that you are honest with your web design company if they are redeveloping your current site. Even if you don’t think it will effect your current campaign, it is important that your SEO/Webmaster knows what has gone on with that site in the past. (more…)
So, since I couldn’t find any real good documentation on the subject, and Dreamhost’s tech support didn’t know the answer, and I recently ran into this issue on a client’s site, here is how you fix the “tinyMCE visual editor not showing up” bug in Wordpress 2.5.x. For reference, the client site in question was running in PHP5x. These instructions only apply to Dreamhost hosting, although similar tactics may work on other hosts:
So the new version of the Firefox internet browser is available for download at Mozilla’s website. There is truly no reason why discerning web users should not download this great update immediately. It’s faster, more secure, and loaded with great new features. As web developers, we can only hope that the new Firefox 3 gobbles up even more browser market share from Internet Explorer, thus making the annoying tweaks for IE far less important in the future. That or that new versions of IE don’t, you know…suck.
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The whole point of this series has been to educate our customers and potential customers about what it really takes to build out a webstore, because quite frankly, most people have no idea how big of a process it actually is. Once we get the site designed and built, and the security and credit card processing is working, we get to the fun* part. (more…)
This week’s winner is a site called A List Apart. It’s a must have bookmark for any web developer. The site is mostly articles that are written by well known experts in the industry like Eric Meyer. Anyone who has taken some type of web class should know him since many of his books are used for teaching. The article topics range from code, content, culture, design, process, and user science. A List Apart is also great if you are interested in understanding web standards and practices.
Go check it out.
SEO is all about design, site architecture, development, market research, statistics and copy writing. Thats a lot to be all about, but what happens when SEO is missing one of those pieces? It becomes much more difficult to reach the target goal.
As you probably surmised from my old-timey padlock photograph, this episode of my Ecommerce series is all about security.
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We here at Frye / Wiles use the term “Results-Oriented” a lot, and for good reason - we could rattle off all the technical mumbo-jumbo in the world to our clients, but in the end, what is important to them is the result they get from hiring us. So, going against our instincts as nerds, we have forced ourselves to approach all projects (and in-project details) with the results-oriented mentality. Results and ROI for our customers is what we are working toward. With that in mind, I’m going to jump right into Part 1 of my illustrious series, “What’s Involved in Ecommerce” (see the Prologue first if you haven’t read that yet and feel lost at this point)
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I came to the conclusion that I wish I had a provider that would send me an arsenal of websites, providing me with information and resources that would be helpful in my day to day activities. Well, I am going to try to be that provider for you each week. The first website that I think would be useful is a site called WebAppers.
It’s a blog created by a freelance web developer named Ray Cheung. The blog has users submitting everything from fonts, open source applications, news articles, tutorials, to cool illustrated icons. So check it out and I hope it helps.
Not to steal Dani’s thunder, which is an impossible task by the way, I rounded up some sites that I visit when I need some design inspiration. Most of these sites are a good way to see how other people creatively layout design using CSS.
The first good site to go to is CSS Zen Garden. You can view the many different designs of what people are doing using CSS. This site is intended for designers to participate and submit their own CSS creations using Zen Garden’s original HTML markup and CSS style sheet for you to download. If Zen Garden likes your work, they will then showcase your wonderful design to the masses.
