IE6, PNGs and Forms – Oh My!

A recent example of a debugging episode with IE6 – We recently discovered that a form on a certain website had mysteriously stopped working in IE7 and Firefox (2 or 3, I don’t know which version) on a PC. More specifically, something was preventing the...

How to spot a hack

Looking to contract a freelancer? Here’s a few things to keep in mind. 1. Cost. As a general rule, experience and quality cost more, but money shouldn’t be a measure of ability. For example, a lot of very talented and young freelancers charge pennies...

Do-It-Yourself SEO Basics

Here’s the scenario: you’ve just launched a new web site, now you need to get some visitors. There are many ways to drive traffic to your site, including but not limited to: Tell people you know to go there Put your web site address on all your marketing...

Five Tips on writing for SEO

If you are planning to go it alone with Search Engine Optimization, here are a few basics to help climb the search ranks. 1- Avoid pronouns. It, they, these, those, our, he, she and their should be avoided when possible. These words are vague and get overlooked by...