Ok, SEO is not completely dead. But it’s growing old, and it’s increasingly covered in cobwebs. Troves of snake-oil salesmen vying to sell you an SEO package would like you to believe otherwise. Here’s my take: I have sat in countless meetings with clients – prospective and current, large and small – to discuss Search…
Ever make changes to a client’s website – whether to the stylesheet or the jQuery powering the site – then send a link and ask them to refresh? It happens a fair amount for clients that love to see fresh changes. And it happens here in the Focus97 kingdom as well. I make changes to…
Chances are, if you’re a designer or developer, you run across design sites where people tout their skills using a fun graph. Sometimes they’re simply rendered in static HTML, but the cool ones are animated using Javascript. (Yes, the animated ones are the ‘cool’ ones.)
The Problem: You have a 3-tiered navigational hierarchy, like above. If you click on mainPage-a, you only want the 3 child Pages to show. But if you click to dive into Page1, you still want to show the three child Pages of mainPage-a, but also want Page1’s subpages to show, but ONLY those subpages. For…
The short answer leans closer and closer to “bad” as the years move on. But I’ll explain…
From the perspective of a photographer and graphic designer, there are a number things to be said about HTML vs. Flash.
The Pros: dynamic aesthetics are under full control by the programmer (with HTML, you’re limited to static pages, for the most part).
The Cons: Google (or Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, etc.) doesn’t recognize anything inside Flash, it simply recognizes the Flash object itself. With HTML pages, Google will recognize all the jpegs and text, and index it that way.