Monthly Archives: December 2007

5 easy rules for web design

 I found this site tonight that has some really good info on web design and creating CSS driven websites with lean HTML. They have complete design and programming tutorials available. 1. Clean easy to update design/structure. 2. Good usability in the design – and all that implies. 3. Fast loading ‘light’ pages. 4. Intelligent use [...]

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Database Driven Web Content

In the world of web design, static html pages are the norm for most web designers. Unfortunately, in the content driven world of the internet now, building html pages for all of your content, especially if it’s dynamic, can be a huge headache as well as a huge expense. Also, for dynamic content, your typical [...]

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Be Careful- Search Engine Scams Continue

Type in Search Engine Optimization into your Google Toolbar, and you’ll find 3,290,000 results. Within the first 50 pages or so, I’m sure that you will find hundreds of companies promising you better search results. They use phrases like “site inclusion services for instant results” to draw their customers. If you have visited these pages [...]

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Military Blog Regulations – web regulations

I read an article today on the discussion of whether military troops should be able to write publicly read blogs. Of course, the article was written on a biased politically-viewed website, but the article did bring up some points for discussion. As I will never discuss politics or such viewpoints on this blog, I will [...]

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Web Standards

At Herrington Marketing, we are constantly learning and evolving as a company. Thats why when our web designers and programmers approach us about raising our standards of excellence when it comes to web design, we listen. The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C for short, is the internationally recognized organization bringing standards to web design. [...]

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Cascading Style Sheets

CSS Example Site This is a brilliant site showing the value of cascading style sheets and the functionality of CSS based design.

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Picking a domain name

Domain Name Potential Domain Names are your location on the internet. As someone who spends a good portion of my time doing search engine work, I find it very frustrating that companies sometimes choose domain names that can only hurt their search engine optimization. As Google spiders get better at searching for relevant content to [...]

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Blog writing and security

internetnews.com Here’s an interesting article on blog writing and the potential harm it can cause companies who do not monitor content and information written by employees.

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Wordtracker Keyword Analysis

Search Engine Optimization utilizes keyword rich text to deliver the right searches to websites. When it comes time to write copy or add content to a website, there are tools of the trade  that are crucial to making our lives a lot easier and our analysis a lot more efficient. One of the best is [...]

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