There is a lot of confusion out there as to what it actually takes to design, develop and manage a webstore. It is actually very common for us to get phone calls from people wanting to build fully customized ecommerce solutions for, oh, say $250 (not kidding).
Which got me thinking, why is this? (more…)
You may have noticed that we here at Frye / Wiles post in our blog a lot. Why, you ask, do we do it? Are we really that full of ourselves?
Well, yes. But that’s not the reason. When it comes down to it, Google (and the other major search engines) loves blogs. They prioritize indexing on blogs (and other sites that are updated very frequently), to really a quite ridiculous degree. (more…)
Plugging content into a website is the most monotonous part of web design. Most of the time its apple-c from word, apple-v to html, Rinse Repeat. One secret weapon though is to use a converter for the text so that all the garbled up entities from word don’t slip into your html.
This HTML UTF-8 Entity Encoder is what we use to make sure that our text is clean when we drop it in the HTML.
Just paste your text in, convert, copy the clean text and paste that in your html doc. That simple.
Downtime happens. That is a fact in all things web-based. Sadly, we sometimes have to take our websites or at least sections of a site off line to do some maintenance or upgrading. What’s most important is that you pick the best time for such downtime.
What good is a website if users can’t get from page to page? Even worse, what if search engines can’t get from page to page? It’s useless, and that’s the last thing you want. Essentially, if you want your website to be usable by everyday people, then it needs to be navigable by computers, and here are a few steps to do just that.
When we talk about topics such about CSS, JavaScript, and sometimes even certain image formats (png24, I’m looking at you), and how they render in a client’s browser, we always, or should always also consider cross-browser behavior. This behavior entails many things: CSS rendering, the availability of CSS specific attributes, whether or not the DOM interface will be the same, general JavaScript behavior — the list goes on and on. And, since most discussions about CSS and JavaScript (at least the ones that I am having) also concern this variable nature, I’m coining (maybe I’m the first) a new term to put all of this into a handy little phrase, “Cross-Browser Consistency,” or, in typical programmer fashion, simply, “XBC.”
Let’s take a brief moment to establish a more exact meaning for this phrase. As you may well be aware, the industry commonly talks about cross-browser support, so we’ll differentiate between support and consistency, as well as defining what cross-browser really means, and some other tidbits as to boot.
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And a wrong way.
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Lets go over a few reasons.
As a programming department, it is always our goal to code in such a manner that makes use of methods that provide, on average, the fastest execution times. In today’s discussion, we’ll be testing the many different ways to process and interact with arrays in PHP in the first of three main areas: reading, modifying, and reconstructing. (more…)
If you have built out a website, by this point you are a bit familiar with the site map. Creating site structure for your website goes beyond grouping like topics. By creating intuitive navigation and properly grouping like pages we can control the site’s overall function; ergo, increasing its conversion rate.
Content is the most important part of your website. There, I said it.
SEO blog post concerning its importance
Michael Martinez writes about the same thing, I highly recommend reading his post before you begin working on your site.
