Tips for New Designers
As I am celebrating Designbit’s birthday and looking back over the journey I have been on over the last year. I realised just how much I have learnt about the technologies and design industry itself, for anybody new to web design I want to save you some time and offer some design tips and hints.
Better Google Results
If you are searching around for web design coding techniques or want to find a blog on a certain topic Google sometimes seems to miss your search terms completely. Using special characters you can target your terms to return more relevant search results.
Hyperlinks and SEO
I am not an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) specialist and never will be, I enjoy creating the full web design package, from code upwards. I do however boast some decent results for some keywords in Googly and I owe this mainly to hyperlinks. A simple technique that keeps my web design blog near the top of google, it’s not a breakthrough technique but do I get more visitors directly from Googly then ever before.
Is SEO Sleazy and unethical?
From a usability perspective, designing a website to be read by a search engine will inevitably lead to poor readability and usability. SEO seems like a way of hacking away at the structure of your website and implementing keyword schemes and accepting reciprocal links from companies and individuals that you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot barge pole in real life. Sounds kind of sleazy to me.
Your Business Needs a Blog
In this article I will point out a new way of marketing your business website by using a blog. Why should you care about blogging, thats just something web designers or egotistical teenagers do to look cool in class. If Microsoft believes that business blogging is important then who are we to ignore it?.
Anthony Brewitt is a web designer and entrepreneur hailing from Lincolnshire, UK. Specializing in blog design and usability and ranting on about anything design related.