Category Archives: Web Design/SEO

Elements of Web Design, Theory, Layout, Commentary, and that sort of stuff.

Five Ways to Tell if Your Site Sucks

Let’s face facts. There are more bad sites, than good sites and far many more horrible sites than great sites. Even great web designers can make bad web design choices. And just about anyone can see a bad website when … Continue reading

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Why can’t http error pages be sexy?

While I took obvious cues from the upcoming firefox 3′s security design I could not help but make a set of my own. I simply fell in love with firefox’s clever, clean, and usable design, so I shamelessly imitated the … Continue reading

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5 Things web designers need be wary of

If not answer with an absolute “No”. I’m not a sales person and I find it very hard to say no to customers if it means killing the deal.  Often, this is very true when I was younger, I’ll get … Continue reading

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What the Restaurant Industry Can Teach Us about Web Design

I recall once hearing that 1 in 3 restaurants fail in the first year of business.  Watching a set of friends and acquaintances I know with restaurants fall into bankruptcy taught me some must-know facts about web design and the … Continue reading

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My Bane, Internet Explorer 6

While Internet Explorer 7 has proved to be a great boon to web developers, by making web design with modern standards a hell of a lot easier (IE7 still betrays us in some aspects), it has not been as widely … Continue reading

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Helping XtermPest.com to reach the Top

It’s taken a long time, nearly a year since the site went live to reach this point. With the recent design changes to xtermpest.com, the site has reached the #1 spot in google’s SERP for “Orlando Pest Control“.

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10 Steps to Making a Localized Website

While working the Xterm Pest Management project, I learned that it isn’t enough to just score well in the search engines for your own business name, but what really matters is scoring well in the keywords that mean something to … Continue reading

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July’s Mailbag

Last month was pretty interesting with the pickups from W3csites.com and CSSHeaven.com and the flood of traffic that hit these sites. July also marked a huge upswing in the advertising and promotion of this site, from basic SEO changes to … Continue reading

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I am honored! w3cSites recognized OrbPortals.com

Wow! Low and behind my surprise this morning when I was checking my analytics and saw a spike for my Orlando Web Design Studio, Orbportals.com. When I dug a bit further, I found it was coming from w3csites.com. So naturally … Continue reading

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