Web Development How-to's

As a successful web designer and developer with years experience specializing in CSS driven tableless design I publish these web development tutorials to share my experiences and techniques for designing websites that are appealing, easy to use, and successful.

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Center Absolute Position DIV

October 1st, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 105 Comments

Centering a div on the screen with absolute position is something may at first seem very complicated, but with a little thinking and simple addition to the position element you can easily center an absolute position div in the middle of the screen.
This can be helpful for creating a wrapper to contain and center the [...]

HTML Code Bloat – How to eliminate HTML code bloat from your web pages

September 30th, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 3 Comments

One of the biggest problems that I see in beginner web pages is the overwhelming use of erroneous code and HTML in their web pages.
Code bloat, as it is currently defined by Wikipedia, is the production of code that is perceived as unnecessarily long, slow, or otherwise wasteful of resources.
This can range from the [...]

Optimizing Movable Type Title Tags

September 20th, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 0 Comments

I have now written on how to optimize the title tags for a variety of blogging software, and I will finish the series of articles with an explanation of how to optimize Movable Type title tags.
The first thing to understand about Movable Type blogging software is that it works a bit differently than other blogging [...]

Optimizing Blogware Title Tags

September 20th, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 0 Comments

Continuing with the series on optimizing title tags for blogging software, I will now explain how to optimize the title tags for a Blogware blog. Blogware blog title tags are not especially search engine optimized by default, but as with most blogging software the optimization of the title tags is a simple modification that [...]

Optimizing Blogger Title Tags

September 20th, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 5 Comments

Due to a very large response to my article about optimizing Word Press title tags, I figured I would write a few more articles describing how to optimize the title tags of other bogger software.
In this post I will explain how to change the order of the Title tags in a Blogger Blog.

Creating a Scrolling DIV area

September 6th, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 0 Comments

At times when creating a site, you may encounter a situation where you need to include more content into DIV than the design is made to handle.
Maybe you want to include the latest news, blogs feeds, or RSS information, but you would like to keep it contained to a small section of the [...]

Social Bookmarks Bar

September 1st, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 0 Comments

I have gotten several questions about the social bookmarks bar that is seen below each of my blog posts, so I thought I would clarify a little.
The Social Bookmarks Bar is a plugin developed for Word Press to allow readers of a blog to quickly bookmark and share their favorite articles as the read a [...]

Optimizing Word Press Title Tags

September 1st, 2006 | Web Development How-to's | 12 Comments

Many users of Word Press have found issues with their title tags that render their links poorly in the search engines.
These are the main problems that users wish to fix about the title tags are:
.) Place post title before the blog title
.) Remove the dash (or ») when there is not post title.
.) Users wish [...]

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