Archive for October, 2009

Usability: Basic Concepts

W3C compliance means your site is likely to work, either because you built it that way or because you had the good judgment to employ a qualified custom designer to do it. You are probably Findable, for the same reason. But what about Usable? Is your site Usable? There is a lot to be considered [...]

Usability: Introduction

Professional web designer thinking includes a concept called Usability. A focus on W3C compliance helps to achieve that, as compliance will assure that the code works. A broken site isn’t Usable. Careful attention and a thoughtful approach by the coder assures a good measure of Usability, just from practical considerations. We talk about SEO a [...]

Off-site Optimization: What is it?

Off-site optimization refers to the usage of a wide array of techniques to make your website more appealing to the search engines in the pursuit of drawing free traffic to your site. Both on-site optimization and off-site optimization are regarded as the main factors used by the search engines to determine the web page rankings [...]

Advantages of WordPress as C M S

Created primarily as blogging software, one of the biggest misconceptions people have is that WordPress is a software used only by bloggers. With its state-of-the-art characteristics however, WordPress has now become an excellent open-source web publishing platform and content management system which boasts of impressive web standards, aesthetics, flexibility and great usability among its users. [...]