Top Ten Link Building Techniques

1. Link Baiting
The most powerful way to get one-way quality permanent links is link baiting.
Link bait is any original and interesting content, which encourage readers to link to. For example, if you think this post is useful and intersting enough, yo…

Monetizing Your Blog: Hot Tips

Ok, you have launched your Blog, you have made it content rich writing useful information and guesting high quality posts, you have done great SEO work and now you have a good amount of traffic from the SERPs.
Now it’s time to monetize your Blog!…

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The Importance of W3C Compliance for Cross-Browser Compatibility

Is compliance to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards really that important? How is it so for Cross-Browser Compatibility? The browser is the most popular means to access the Web. Many users have numerous options as to what web browser to use. For this matter, cross-browser compatibility is one of the significant reasons for [...]

The Easy-Button

We have books and articles about website usability, the good offices of the W3C to show us guidelines and offer us tools for ensuring functional code, and a handy professional designer to put the ideas into action. But why do we need those, anyway? Why can not we just let the writers compose some prose, [...]

Why People Hate Websites

As a builder or purchaser of SEO-friendly, W3C compliant websites, you put a lot of effort and perhaps considerable money into making sure your website is great, that people love it and want to stay and buy your product or use your services. The last thing you want is for people to find your site, [...]

Who Uses the Web and How

How much do people use the Internet? Well, that depends on who they are. It is a subject of much interest to web designers and people who invest in websites. Obviously you want people to read your content and purchase your goods and services. Otherwise you would not go to all the trouble to build [...]

Readability

Recently we have discussed findability and usability, in the context of custom web design and with reference to W3C compliance. Now let us take one more step, which may be more fun for you than it is for me. And that is readability. The study of how users read is helpful if you want to [...]

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 [...]

Web Accessibility

When the W3C speaks of Web Accessibility they may be referring to the design of browsers and media players and such. The W3C says that to be compliant, such devices “should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies”. When we, the designers, writers, and purchasers of web sites, say Web Accessibility, [...]

Valid code & SEO

How important is it to write code that is W3C compliant? If you will poke about the web a bit, you will find answers ranging from “W3C compliant code is vital” to “valid code, whatever”. Some people seem to care about witting valid code because if reflects on their reputation. Whether you write the code [...]

About

My name is Cecilia Santos. Born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I still live here. This city is large and has an international flavor. My work is important to me; it also has an international flavor. My design work includes clients from all over the world. Some of my favorite success stories are with [...]