Category Archives: Website Stuffs

A look at web design, search engine optimization, and the general state of the internet.

Strict XHTML Coding

I’ve decided it is time I make an honest effort towards using strict valid XHTML code. Lately, my code has often been a neapolitan mixture of HTML 4.0, a little CSS, and sometimes XHTML, often on the same page.
Much of the reason I haven’t been consistent with my coding style has been due to

PDXbars – The First Week

I am pleased with how the Portland Bars website is turning out. Jason and I have worked our asses off getting it up and going, and we are starting to see a nice flow of traffic.
The blog is a handy asset as well, complete with a “bar detector” module that tries to match any

Think Local, Act Local

I’d like to go a little bit more in depth of some of the points I made in my Yahoo Slurp post.
If you aren’t geographically optimizing your business website’s content for search engines, you could be screwing yourself out of new customers.
For demonstrative purposes, I’m going to rebuild a locally based business’s

Getting Yahoo’s Slurp to Crawl Your Site

I don’t have time to elaborate on this, but this article brings up some solid points that I always try to make apparent to my clients in regards to optimizing your website for search engine spiders.
One point made in the article that I like to particularly drive home is this one: Be certain that geographic

Getting Listed In DMOZ

The Open Directory Project (or DMOZ ) is a valuable, human edited categorized link directory. Having your site listed can improved your search engine rankings do the the high quality value that search engines give DMOZ.
Additionally, DMOZ allows it’s database to be used by other websites, so there are a great number of directories that

On the Farm

I have just finished up my most recent traffic generation campaign for Flying Rhinoceros.
Play on the Farm is a series of educational books and DVDs with a faith-based message. This website includes some great flash animation from some of the finest illustrators and animators, as well as voices by Vince Gill and Amy Grant.
Our

Design for the Obvious

When you take on a client, especially when you are newer to the web design industry, you may feel compelled to “impress” both yourself and your client with the coolest, fanciest design. Maybe you want to add all kinds of features that you feel are fun tasks that enhance the website.
You are designing as a

MSN Search Beta

For those living in the dark, MSN’s indexing robot has been heavily crawling websites for the past few monthes. Some folks with larger sites have gone so far as to ban MSN bot due to aggressive crawling. Most of my sites have no more than a couple of hundred pages, so it hasn’t affected me

Local Directories & Real Estate

For two years, I lived and worked in the small town of Redding, California. About 6 months ago, I launched categorized directory of Redding related links. It’s doing decent, generates a few thousand uniques every month, most from Search Engines and Adwords. I use it to help local business get a traffic jumpstart, and

Passive Aggressive

Jack Humphrey wrote a great article for SiteProNews called Active Vs. Passive Website Traffic Generation.
It really got me thinking about my own traffic generation tactics. I do actively seek to generate traffic from search engines and link directories, but also, I don’t spend too much time generating reciprocals and joining link exchanges. I don’t frequently