web design

twitter.com/flowersmeller

Another great background from orionsweb…
Flowersmeller’s twitter page was looking great, but as with many twitter pages, they look great at very high resolution but for a huge number of browsers they look as this did here: (the background image is cut off by the twitter central content.
So we went ahead and, using Flowersmeller’s background and [...]

RDFa and a Practical Semantic Web

If you’ve no clue what RDFa is, no problem. If you’re not sure, no problem. If you heard about it and want to know more, again no problem!
Came across a great article: RDFa and a Practical Semantic Web which really helped clarify many confusions that I had regarding RDFa, what it is and how I [...]

Coleman Web Store – Bad Example

A fellow Scouter forwarded me an announcement they received today about the opening of Coleman’s new online ecommerce store for Canada, http://www.colemanwebstore.ca!
I enjoy shopping online whenever I can, and we’re actually looking to upgrade some of the Cubs camping equipment soon. So off I go to the site..
First impression, not too bad, aesthetically it presents [...]

New! Twitter Page Customization!

Orion’s Web is now offering Twitter Page Customization!
From as little as $75 we will take imagery of your choosing or your company website, and translate it to a custom twitter page background.
Give your followers more information about you and what you do!
Take a look at our twitter page to see a simple twitter page customization: [...]

How to create a 301 redirect

There are many ways to redirect site visitors from one page to another. However there are very few ways that are considered proper and recommended by the Search Engines.
The 301 Redirect
By far, the most Search Engine Friendly way to redirect from one page to another is the 301 redirect. The 301 redirect, initially can look [...]

The strong link between Usability & SEO

Here’s a great post dealing with one of my personal favourite topics, usability. To the detriment of many sites, usability is an often overlooked aspect of web design and seo. The value of usability in the architecture and design of a successful web enterprise cannot be underestimated. Check out the article and watch here, in [...]

Google Webmaster Central

Known and well used by those experienced in search engine optimization, Google Webmaster Central is often overlooked by novice optimizers, web designers, and website owners alike (usually because they just aren’t aware of it). Webmaster Central contains a plethora of valuable tools to help you optimize your site, improve rankings and answer all your [...]

Parsing RSS feeds for your website

VERY COOL STUFF!!!… So I finally got off my duff on this one, did a bit of research and finally found out how I can syndicate my blog to one of my other websites. I was hoping that I would be able to blog in one single place about whatever I wanted to blog about, [...]

alt & title attributes

There is a great amount of confusion regarding the use of the alt=”” and title=”” attributes in both web design and seo. I would like to help clarify their purpose in the web site and how they should be used.
The alt=”” attribute is defined by W3C Schools under the <img> tag as follows:
Required attributes
Purpose: text
Description: [...]

Saving and naming files

It never ceases to amaze me, the number of people that are oblivious to file naming conventions and their ramifications.
We have mostly Microsoft to blame for this… Since Windows 3.1 came on the scene in 1992 (previous versions 1 through 3.0 were almost invisible to the world) PC users everywhere have been able to click [...]