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Designing an SEO Friendly Website

Posted: 04-27-11 | in Webdesign | 2,014 views

SEO tips and tricks are a thing every webdesigner/webdeveloper must always keep in mind. This post on webdesignledger comes in very handy when designing and developing a website from scratch. Continue Reading

Wrapping Long URLs and Text Content with CSS

Posted: 04-20-11 | in Webdesign | 517 views

To wrap long URLs, strings of text, and other content, just apply this carefully crafted chunk of CSS code to any block-level element (e.g., perfect for pre tags). Continue Reading

CSS Design: Taming Lists

Posted: 04-20-11 | in Webdesign | 879 views

In this article, they’ll demonstrate how to use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. It’s time for you to tell lists how to behave, instead of letting them run wild on your web page. Continue Reading

How to track downloads in Google Analytics automatically

Posted: 04-19-11 | in Webdesign | 394 views

We use Google Analytics here because it is a great tool to help us understand our visitors. Today we’re going to talk about a way to track if visitors download files or click on links to external websites. Tracking this sort of behaviour may be really important to see if people are interacting with the web site the way intended. For example, businesses that have their brochures or product catalogues downloadable as PDF’s. The official Google Analytics help says that any link can be monitored if this script is added in the link: onclick=”pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/file_name.file_extension’). Adding this script to every download link on your website can be a laborious task. Continue Reading

CSS to Enhance Web Typography

Posted: 04-11-11 | in Webdesign | 747 views

We all have our techniques for obtaining a great combination of readability and design. Many designers like to fine-tune the font stacks and sometimes add a nice shadow to bring text to life. Others like to take typography to a different level and use anti-aliasing tools and such to get a sharp clean result. Whichever method you decide upon, there are some great CSS techniques to enhance web typography without running the whole nine miles. With that said, we discuss several techniques to obtaining great results for typography using some rather easy methods. Continue Reading