December 1, 2011 If you have creative, modern and well-coded website it is time to let users know about it. One of the ways to do this is to submit it to creative galleries. There are hundreds of galleries on the Internet but not all of them are good for submitting your resource. Why? As was told earlier, links only from “good” sites increase authority of your site. A lot of galleries are banned with Google for different reasons and it’s no good to have them linking to your resource.
We started manual submitting XPGraph.com to creative galleries last week and got successfully listed in some of them.
I want to highlight few creative galleries as very professional and fast. To get listed on them takes not more than 24-48h. They all are free to submit:
http://coolhomepages.com/
http://www.cssdesignawards.com/
http://neuecss.com/
http://www.csswinner.com/
http://www.foliostars.net/
http://websitelaunchpad.com
http://www.html5arena.com
http://www.mabucplus.com/
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November 18, 2011 So, you have site and you decided to optimize it for search engines. It’s great. So, let’s look how search engine systems work first.
Search engine spider finds your site on the Internet, then downloads it in cache and stores in its database. When the user enters keywords in search field, search engine looks at its cache and provide list of websites that the most relevant to the request. Everything is simple at first glance, but it’s much more difficult. The main question is how search engine sorts search results. There are a lot of search engines over the web and each of them has its own algorithm that nobody knows. To solve this algorithm is the main task of SEO specialist. Algorithms of search engines are kept in strict confidence, however main idea is still there.
Here are main and most important factors of success optimization for any search engine:
1. Website content
This is start point. You should have unique and interesting content on your site, to make people read it, bookmark it and share it to other people. Website content should be permanently updated with fresh articles and new pages. Also, pages should be well linked to each other inside your site, to make users open and read as much as possible pages from your resource. read more
November 10, 2011 Design of a web site is usually divided into following stages:
- development of design specifications;
- design of the main page;
- design of all unique inside pages;
- HTML coding.
As with any technical project, creation of design requires a clear statement of the problem.
No one professional designer starts work without detailed specification. A clear statement of the problem provides a well-coordinated work of several specialists, eliminates possible misunderstandings between the customer and the developer. In terms of reference for design specification often includes the following information:
- customer requirements in the field of artistic and technical excellence;
- list of competitors with the items customer likes or dislikes;
- range of colors and font types;
- elements of corporate identity that should be used in the design;
- site map;
- description of functionality and programming scripts;
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November 1, 2011 It is really complex to indicate the main features of modern web site, because web design is closer to art and can’t be described with clear definitions. However there are few criteria that up-to-date site should correspond to.
First: minimalism, simplicity and intuitive interface. Users visit your site to find specific information, and even if your site is made in the avant-garde style with all sorts of technical solutions and fashion victim, a visitor can hardly appreciate it if for finding the necessary information he needs to waste much time in dense forest of navigation.
Second: correct displaying of your site in most used browsers. New browsers support modern features of HTML5 and CSS3. However there are still Internet surfers who use old-school software, who unfortunately will inevitably turn out to be “overboard” read more
