From: Webmaster Central Blog We’ve noticed a rise in the number of questions from webmasters about how best to structure a website for mobile phones and how websites can best interact with Googlebot-Mobile. In this post we’ll explain the current situation and give you specific recommendations you can implement now. Some Background Let’s start with a simple question: what do we mean by “mobile phone” when talking about mobile-friendly websites? A good way to answer this question is to think about the capabilities of the mobile phone’s web browser, especially in relation to the ...

Web designing can be a very challenging task due to the multiple functions that a web design is supposed to achieve. A web design is supposed to please the target audience and at the same time provide all the necessary information. It is meant to be functional and visually coherent. Thus, designing web is not a very easy task and functions on a set of principles. Some of the principles of web design are as follows. 1. Guiding the eye of the visitor: One of the most important functions of a web design is providing information. An important tool that you can make use of is precedence. You as a designer...

It grates when people write poorly, huh. When writers write well, the words almost become invisible. The focus shifts away from technical details, and onto the message. Is there an easy way to write better blog posts? E-mails? Web copy? Let’s take a look at three guidelines for web writing. 1. If You Can Say It, You Can Write It The Dilbert Mission Statement Generator – sadly now offline – comes up with convoluted gems this: “Our challenge is to assertively network economically sound methods of empowerment so that we may continually negotiate performance based...

From the official Google Webmaster Central Using site speed in web search ranking You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there....

And Why These Mistakes Could Cost You a Fortune! By Jason Mangrum, CEO Huge Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash — Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually decreased the response from prospects and customers by as much as 370 percent? Here’s why: Your prospects and customers are most likely visiting your website using all types of different computers, connection speeds and internet configuration settings… What may look great to one ...