Blog: Web Design

Lessons, Facts, and Myths about SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

The point of this blog post isn't to say SEO campaigns are worthless. It's to separate the concepts behind a proper website build vs. an SEO campaign. LESSONS The world of SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) is a mysterious place that is constantly changing. There is no one standard to follow, although Google's algorithm is the most relevant with Bing's somewhat closely behind. Search Engine algorithms change ... (Read More)

Anti-Spam measures bulked up

We have a few user registration based sites out there. These sites (as well as contact type forms) are suseptable to spam posts from foreign and even sometimes domestic IP addresses. We used to rely on reCaptcha to stop the majority of this, but within the last few months that has become less reliable, despite being a valuable tool still. One variable we've always tracked for user based websites is IP address. It helps us locate spam... (Read More)

Microsoft announces automatic Internet Explorer updates!

Yesterday Microsoft announced on its blog that they will be pushing Internet Explorer browser updates to XP, Vista, and 7 users. The death of IE6 may finally be around the corner. As a programmer I've long been tormented by this dinosaur of a web browser destroying well formatted HTML simply because it wasn't advanced enough to recognize the styling used. "Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers... (Read More)

Google To Phase Out Internet Explorer 6 Support

View the Google Blog Article With the recent release of Windows 7 (and Microsoft started flirting with abandoning Internet Explorer 6) web designers saw the first glimpse of hope that, we as service providers, will not have to bend over backwards to make well crafted websites and applications work in a browser that was sub-par to say the least. Enter another big dog in the fight against IE6, Google! The world's largest web company and develop... (Read More)