The Melodius Sound of Tuning your sIFR

February 24, 2005

Today was the day to take sIFR over to two client sites. I've played with it and even used it on one where it was only a “here and there” thing. But today, it was a “get ready to deploy sitewide” thing. And so the fine tuning began. First, if you haven't been introduced to [...]

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Usability and Standards – Who Cares?

February 14, 2005

So you've made the leap and you're now separating form from function. You're using XHTML and CSS and designing to web standards. All your pages validate and you've got the buttons to prove it. Who cares? Not your prospective client. The quickest way to watch a new client's eyes glaze over is to launch into [...]

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Tirekickers — or How to Get a Handle on the Client's Budget…

January 31, 2005

How many times have you gotten a contact through your web site asking how much XYZ website would cost? They say, “I want a website like this one.” Or ask, “How much would a website for 'this type business' be?” When you ask what their budget is, they don't know. You can spend an hour [...]

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Blocking the Value of Comment Spam

January 25, 2005

Those of you with blogs know what a pain it can be when the spammers send their bots out to muck up your comments with links to their own sites. They know the value of a link in Google and they frankly don't care whether they're messing with the rules or messing with you — [...]

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SEO vs. Accessibility: Can you have both?

January 21, 2005

I try to design the code of my pages to be very clean, with little extraneous “stuff.” My goal is always to make them as accessible as possible as well as search engine friendly. And I've got it all figured out. Using text instead of images for headings and navigation allows me to be kind [...]

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Does Code Validation Matter?

January 13, 2005

For a long time I've been the kind of web developer that enjoys writing clean, valid code. I have some web friends that think I'm a little too hard core, but it makes me happy. When I complete a site (or when I run into a problem while developing the XHTML/CSS), I use the Web [...]

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Search Engine Blogs

January 11, 2005

Though Search Engine Optimization isn't one of my favorite things to do (gurls just wanna write code!), I do basic optimization for select clients. Of course, this forces me to keep up with the latest news from the Engines to do a good job. Recently, I ran across the Search Visibility Report. SVR is a [...]

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Open Source for Cold Fusion

January 7, 2005

I hadn't been over to CFOpen.org lately and this morning I surfed in to check it out. It looks to be shaping up quite nicely. For those of you that don't know about CFOpen and are CF developers (or work with CF developers like I do), you should check it out. I'll let them explain [...]

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OS X 10.3.7 Update and Font Corruption

December 20, 2004

Beware if you run OS X without a good font management tool. That's me. Somewhere along the way with my HD crash and reinstalling/upgrading programs, I ended up without a working version of Font Doctor. (Yes, I own Suitcase, but somehow can only find the upgrade which does not include Font Doctor.) And yes, if [...]

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Google and Geico…

December 20, 2004

In case you haven't yet heard, in the latest “sue the search engine” saga, a judge has ruled that Google is not at fault in allowing AdWords customers to bid on trademarked terms. The jury is still out on whether those same terms can be used in text ads, and if they are wrongly used, [...]

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