design

Up until recently it has been necessary to use images to create cool page shadow and page curl effects. Not anymore. design-a-webpage.com demonstrates how a super cool page curl shadow can be created using efficient and clean CSS3.

Being able to use CSS3 is a huge advantage over images because there is a massive difference in data size. Instead of transferring images (some of which would need to be quite large) you can now simply write a CSS3 gradient declaration to do the same job.

There's two important factors that contribute to the popularity of a website from the perspective of a search engine; namely the quantity and quality of its content.

Since most webmasters have limited manhours to devote to creating fresh new content, it becomes important to ensure that every bit of SEO juice is squeezed from what content is created. This is what has driven the growth and importance of SEO.

A good page title, strong headings and an SEO enhanced lead paragraph can have a huge impact on the SEO and position in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

Many websites and webpages naturally focus their energies on the immediately visible content of a page and there's nothing wrong with that.

Without doubt, what keeps a visitor glued to your page, is the content therein. The problem is that, almost inevitably, none of that content makes into a search engine result.

The tiny preview shown to potential visitors in a search result is therefore hugely important because that is what pulls people to a page in the first place. Makes sense then to ensure that all this information is relevant and meaningful to a human reader.

There are three main areas to focus on (aside from your META description, which is important and was discussed in an earlier blog):

What features makes a website good can be a really subjective thing. What works for one might be complete poison for another.

Regardless, there are certain general traits that the vast majority of websites require in order to be efficient, hassle free and good at what they do.

These features can be aspects of the site that make the administrator/owner's life easy, or they can be functional design features that make life easy for users.

Either way, if you haven't got them... get them!