Are you interested in web site design and development? And other things Internet related?
In the new year FREE seminars will take place at Urmston Library on Internet related topics such as web design, web development, social media, and more.
Researching Keywords
When choosing keywords for your site it is important to choose keywords that are a) being used by users when searching for your product or similar items, b) give you a fighting chance of competing and competing well for your chosen keywords.
How can you find out information about your chosen keywords?
Quick Tips For Google Adwords
Google Adwords is great for driving traffic to your site but its hard to get your ad clicked on in the first place. Once your ad has been clicked on you need to get the user to “do something”, this may be as simple as viewing a page but can involve capturing user information via a web form.
Pure CSS Rounded corners
The CSS3 specification offers a new border-radius property to create perfect rounded corners purely using CSS.
Using Non-Standard CSS Properties
This site extensively uses CSS property box-shadow. Since this property is not available in all browsers we had a few decisions to make. At first we decided using transparent PNGs but these are a no-no in earlier versions of IE, but then we knew this could be fixed with the many PNG fixes around for IE. So we decided to use transparent PNGs and a script to add this functionality to IE. We decided this because we wanted to ensure maximum browser reach in terms of how the site would look.
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