The initial impression that a website has on users has a significant effect on the perception of the visitor regarding the products. It also determines whether or not the visitor will navigate to another website. Seasoned marketers are aware that a professional website design can affect the attitude and internet habits of online visitors.

SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization, is the operation of optimizing one’s website to improve the position in which the website will appear within the search results acquired from a search engine based on individual keyword phrases.

It’s been a while since my last post, and that’s do to good reason. Many of us have been, at one point or another, faced with the hard decision of should you get certified. The answer to that question is “YES!” But which is the right certification for you. Thats a hard question that I can not answer for you. Lets take a look at what you should consider if you are looking to take your career to the next level.

Approaching the mid-year period, everyone’s trying to put forward their own views about the recent web design and development trends. Here, we’re going to analyze the recent adoptions of web designers and developers in the world of website designing.

I would like to thank Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks.com and Jeff Starr from DigWP.com for selecting me as a winner in their July 4th giveaway contest.  The prize was the “Digging Into WordPress” book with lifetime updates. Thanks guys and keep up the great work.

WordPress is a very powerful tool. But lets not get it mixed up on what WordPress really is and what it is capable of. Of course you can use it to blog your most deepest thoughts, but it’s more then that. The functionality of WordPress is much deeper then the puddle of rain water in [...]

  Over the past few months there has been a few heated debates over whether HTML5 is dead before its even born. There are even hotter debates about whether Adobe Flash is in the last days of its lifetime. There is plenty that could be said on this topic but today I am more into [...]

  I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my WordPress theme didn’t come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn’t really want to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the WordPress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how [...]

The inevitable and by far the most important industry that is, the web development industry is constantly evolving. In this ever-growing, fast-paced industry it becomes really important to predict a future and its course of development over the years. Where almost the whole set of economy is either directly or indirectly based on this development, its actually pretty easy to see the stand in the coming years/months.

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  There are several tutorials on the Internet on how-to integrate the Google Custom search in your website, but the results are not very attractive. The older iframe version doesn’t fit perfectly in most of our templates and the style for ads and results doesn’t look good in the past. A few month Google has [...]