http://blog.ealenger.com Web Design Tips, Tricks and Information Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Social networking (facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc) have become an important part of having a web presence.  They provide additional outlets to allow people to see your site as well as broadcast messages in mass to people who are interested.  If you have a website it is probably worth setting up ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=74 A common question, with a not so clear cut answer, is what happens if my domain name expired?  The short answer is, hope it has been 30 days or less. When a domain is set to expire and the owner doesn't renew it, it will go into a 30 day holding ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=72 Web site visitors who use Google Toolbar now have access to a global comment and annotation system called Google Sidewiki.  This toolbar addition allows users to comment on any webpage on any server and have it visible to any visitor. I am not sure how I feel about this technology.  I ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=68 Animated gif's have a pretty bad wrap in the web design world.  Mostly because when computers started being used by the masses everyone thought that it was very cool to be able to have images move.  Thus everyone who made a webpage wanted at least 15 of these images on ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=54 Can you own multiple domain names for one site? YES! In fact, a lot of people should own multiple domain names. Not only are we talking the .org, .net and .biz versions but multiple spellings as well. For example, one of my clients is One Putnam Centre. Notice ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=41 Many people approach me and ask if it is a good idea to buy their name or their family name, for example, thejohnsons.com or davejohnson.com.  My reaction is mixed on this subject.  Most of the time I ask if they have any plans for the domain, like a blog or ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=37 I recently had a conversation with client over uniformity of a site.  If you look at two pages (home and about) from your website side by side and they don't have any elements in common then you are in trouble.  The basic layout and color scheme of your site should ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=34 Somewhere along the line people began assuming that selling things online was free.  I am sure that this assumption comes from thinking that they don’t have the overhead of a store or the need to keep a large amount of inventory on hand, etc.  I will be the first to ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=32 So you have decided that you want a website.  First, congratulations, I think everyone/business needs a website.  Now that you have decided that you need a site you also need to decide what goes on your web site.  I have a few suggestions for those of you running a business ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=29 An important day in history has come.  One of the first “social networking” sites has closed down.  Geocities was a place to create and host a free website and was quite popular throughout the 90’s.  When I think of Geocities, I see bad page backgrounds, sites full of animated gifs, ... http://blog.ealenger.com/?p=26