Choosing an SEO Firm Can Help Improve Your Business

March 23, 2010 by David Olsen · Leave a Comment

If you build websites you know that SEO is very important if you rely on search engines to get readers. But it can take a lot of time and effort on a continuing basis to optimize websites for search engines. So it’s a good idea to look at search engine marketing firms. But there are a few things you should know before you pay them to optimize your site.

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Choosing an SEO Firm Can Help Improve Your Business originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 10:02:04.

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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: ColorBlender

March 14, 2010 by David Olsen · Leave a Comment

Finding color palettes can be a lot of fun, and with this tool you can create a palette and then email it to someone else to have them modify it. You can choose each color in the palette directly or have the tool give you a “blend” based on a color you start with.

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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: ColorBlender originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 07:05:16.

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Link Love – Color

March 14, 2010 by David Olsen · Leave a Comment

Color is something that most Web designers obsess over. We have tons of color apps to help us pick colors, follow pages of color ideas, and even read articles on color theory like they are the latest best-seller. Here are some links I found this week that are about using color in Web design. If you know of other good color resources, let us know in the comments.

Link Love – Color originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 16:24:54.

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Interesting Web Books – New Books on Web Development

March 8, 2010 by David Olsen · Leave a Comment

I love to read. I read over 100 books a year, possibly as many as 200 books. And while most of these books are science fiction, dantasy, or general fiction, I also read a lot of Web development books. These are some of the books that have come out recently that I would like to read.

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HTML and JavaScript BASICS by Karl Barksdale and E. Shane Turner (Compare Prices)
Host Your Web Site On The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy by Jeff Barr (Compare Prices)
Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML (5th Edition) by Terry Morris (Compare Prices)
Web 2.0: Making the Web Work for You, Illustrated by Jane Hosie-Bounar and Barbara M. Waxer (Compare Prices)

Link Love: CSS Tricks

March 6, 2010 by David Olsen · Leave a Comment

This week I found some sites that teach how to do some nifty things with CSS. So the next time someone tells you that CSS creates boring designs, you can point to one of these sites and correct their perception.