How often should I blog?
Posted by Jack Warnes in Blogs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Website Design on September 27, 2009
If you are starting out from scratch, you will probably be wondering how often you should write a new article or post a new blog. My site has been going for a couple of months now and after putting in a lot of hard work at the beginning, my other priorities have been taking over.
Top 10 sites to submit my articles to.
Posted by Jack Warnes in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Top 10, Website Design on September 10, 2009
So you’re writing a blog. You want to get your name out there. You want people to visit your site. But how do you do it? This article outlines a few sites that you can submit your articles to and get recognised. I have had success with a few of these when starting this blog and I always try and submit all of my articles to each one.
My Top 5 items to include in your homepage
Posted by Jack Warnes in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Top 5, Website Design on September 6, 2009
When it comes to designing and creating websites, the homepage is one of the most important pages you can create.
It acts as the “splash page” for any incoming visitors or potential customers. The first page they see cannot be boring or plain, it has to stand out. Information has to be easily accessible and not 3 – 5 clicks away.
So to try and retain those visitors and lower your bounce rate, I’ve suggested a few things that you might like to include in your homepage!
Googles Search Engine Results
Posted by Jack Warnes in Google, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Website Design on September 1, 2009
It really does boggle me. Yesterday, I noticed a sudden jump in the number of visitors I was receiving. I checked where they were actually going to. It turns out, over 50 people had just viewed my blog My top 5 website Layouts. I was shocked. How was there a sudden rise in the number of people reading my blog? I decided to investigate by first checking Google Search Engine Results.
Searching for “top website layouts” displayed my blog at about rank 2 in the UK and rank 6 on dot com.
You have NO idea how happy I was – it seemed all of my hard work was paying off.
I decided to leave it and come back later – just to see how many people would actually visit it. Around 6 hours later, it topped at about 350 and then began to slow down – I wondered why?
I checked the Google Search Engine Results again and to my surprise, not even on page 3! My blog post on dzone was there on page 2 but nothing about me. Why was this? From everything to nothing in about 5 hours? It slightly annoyed me but also put me in the mood to find out why – back to Google!
Website Design Tools for Linux
Posted by Jack Warnes in Linux, Ubuntu, Website Design on August 31, 2009
I’ve been running a copy of Ubuntu for a while now, from Feisty Fawn to Hardy to the newer 9.04 Jaunty.
I moved over from Windows at the beginning of my University life and I haven’t moved back. Ubuntu has everything that I need…
- Emails are read online at Gmail
- Music is Streamed from a radio station
- Open office is used to text documents
- Firefox for web browsing
- VLC for media
There’s nothing else that I really need to do…or is there?
Freelance Website Designers Advertising with Adwords – or not?
Posted by Jack Warnes in Website Design on August 31, 2009
I have used adwords for a while now, particularly for one of my websites that needed to advertise to local people in the area. I had a look at using adwords to advertise my ability to design websites. This is when I hit a problem….
The Cost Per Click of adverts on the first page is as follows:
“website design” costs £15 per click
“web site design” costs £10 per click
“web site designers” costs £10 per click
“web site developers” cost £11 per click
Dual/Tri Screens for Website Design – up 30%?
Posted by Jack Warnes in Website Design on August 30, 2009
Lately I have been doing a fair bit of website design while down at my girlfriends house. The problem with this being the size of my laptop. It’s only a 13.1″ screen and is quite difficult to do any sort of design on. I do manage, but I struggle.
At home I normally use a better setup, my home-built quad-core desktop with dual 24″ monitors. (Yes, I did get identical, I had to)
Where would I be without these 2 monitors?
My top 5 website Layouts
Posted by Jack Warnes in Website Design on August 29, 2009
When it comes to designing websites, one of the early stages is to decide on a layout. Picking the wrong layout can be disastrous for the website. The layout needs to have enough space to display the relevant information, while maintaining the usability of the website. This is why I decided to blog about what layouts I mainly use and therefore my top 5.
Things to avoid when designing websites.
Posted by Jack Warnes in Website Design on August 28, 2009
After waking up from the cave this morning, I decided to have a browse around on the Internet for some relevant articles. I came across this one posted over at Blackwater Blog. It outlines a few aspects of website design that should be avoided. After spending quite some time browsing quite a few websites, I decided I would have a go and list my own! Anyway, here we go.
