This issue recently came up simultaneously on several of our websites built using the super easy to use Adobe Business Catalyst CMS. It's a great system for getting sites up and running quickly, but sometimes it takes a minute to figure out how to fully customize everything to your own...
Adobe is releasing Photoshop Touch SDK, which allows users to bridge the potential of mobile with the power of desktop software. The Photoshop Touch SDK allows applications running on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and iOS mobile and tablet devices to interact with Photoshop CS5. Adobe's belief...
Here is an old SEO question... Which is better for improving a page's ranking in search engines--dashes or underscores? The difference between dashes and underscores for SEO for Google is fairly small--a second order effect--not a primary factor in ranking, but there is a difference which should be...
We can categorize the ways to earn revenue from blogging in two broad categories: direct monetization and indirect monetization. Direct monetization is perhaps the most popular approach--namely web advertizing. Bloggers can always experiment with the two approaches to learn what is best for them....
In Drupal, it is fairly simple to create alphabetized lists of content items. The approach that I am about to describe is just one of a few ways to do just this--perhaps one of the easiest, as it comes straight out of the box. Create a custom content type We would recommend creating a custom...
When investigating a company, it is vital to look at more than just assets--look at the people behind the company. Here is a quick list of resources for investigating a corporate board. The corporate website It is always a good idea to start with the web. The internet can be a treasure trove of...
Website owners and designers can provide instructions to search robots to deny or provide access to specific parts of their website. It can be helpful if you have specific pages or sections of a website that you do not want to show up in search results. The practice can be abused as well, as some...
Let's say you built a website locally and need to upload the whole thing to a remote UNIX / Linux server, but your site is quite large with numerous files, which would take a while to upload. Also, sometimes uploading a copy of a website can be tricky if you miss a file and forget to check the...
Making a user's experience enjoyable and hassle-free is a vital part of web design and development. In many website projects, you may need to have an HTML form with values pre-filled to describe the type of field the user is accessing. This is one of the simplest ways to execute this approach. It...
As part of our web design tips and tactics guide, here is a sometimes useful javascript technique of hiding broken images and their ALT text. This can be useful ( as a quick, temporary fix) when pulling from another source such as a dynamic array or a database output which may have a few broken...