Ten things art has taught me about life and design even.


I started painting with oils recently. Now I am not ready to call myself an artist but this morning I completed my 7th oil painting. I am busy with a few others as well. Yes I am painting a lot, nothing that would lead you to want me to teach you how to paint, probably nothing you would want to buy, but a friend liked one painting so much, he is going to hang it in his house. Here are ten things that painting has tought me. Read more…

10 reasons why Flash Sucks!! Web design and SEO


I got hell from flash apologists and web design gurus the last time I said something about flash being bad for web sites. In fact some pointed out the irony that I use flash videos on my site. I still say flash sucks as a web design platform. Flash as a web design platform fails the SEO test and 9 others.

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Spamming web designers with a web design offer is a bad plan.


Specifically spamming this web designer who hates spam is a bad plan because I am going to look at your offer and website and show people how bad you are. You see any business that has to resort to spam is in trouble for a number of reasons. The biggest they are in danger of losing their email account and their web accounts.  I get loads of spam and there are two types there’s good spam and there’s bad spam.

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Nelspruit web designer offers ten questions for your web designer


Choosing a web design company can be a mine field for the non technical buyer, Factually you are buying some code that can either be an asset or a liabilty. Can your website cost you money and never get any results? This is a sure fire bet, It is estimated that as many as 70% of all websites are invisible, So before you buy here are ten questions to ask your web designer, I have included answers so that you have an idea what to expect.

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Web Development Nelspruit - Nelspruit Community Network


Web Design Nelspruit seems to be a popular search term so I have decided there is a need for this site to rank as well for it as it does for Nelspruit Web Design.  Web design Nelspruit is awkward as language goes but as a Search phrase I have found it in my Statistics, I know being on page one for the term would satisfy most. I however know that the first position on the results gets the majority of the traffic and would rather that came to my site than to my competitors.

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Lowveld Web design - Is graphic design the same as web design


Lowveld web designer and Search Engine Optimisation specialist Guy McLaren is convinced that most Lowveld web designers do not understand the concept of Search Engine Optimisation. Over the months he has heard of clients being told that it is not possible to get better rankings on Google, SEO is not real, some Lowveld web designers have told their clients.

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Is South African Hotel web design behind the curve?


I spent some time looking at South African hotel web design and hospitality web sites. In order to understand why so few hoteliers are getting results from their hospitality web sites, I looked for as many as I could find. I started with the search term “South African Hotel” and on the first 3 pages (top 30 entries) their is one hospitality web site that belongs to a hotel group.

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Web design tutorial - Creating the first page


This is the third in the series of web design tutorials available on this web site. You can start from the beginning with the web design tutorial - hosting your web site.

In this web design tutorial we are going to follow on from our previous web design tutorial - Styles sheets and page layout and create the page for publication.  Our first page will be a page with some information about the business we are wanting to publicize. In this case our website that we are creating is at http://laeveldbou.webs.com/. This page is being created in order to create some backlinks to http://laeveldbou.co.za

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Web design tutorial - Page layout


This is the second web design tutorial in this series. The first is available at web design tutorial - getting your site hosted.

This web design tutorial is going to cover the basics of laying out a html page. We are going to delve into a little CSS to create a basic stylesheet to ensure that the page looks good and the stylesheet will be the base for any additional pages we add to the site to create congruency. So lets get started with this web design tutorial.

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Web Design Tutorial - The basic needs


I saw an advert for a BA in web design today and thought, What? they are kidding right. I am guessing that I should look at the curriculum so that it makes sense to me. I know that web design is not rocket science. Most people learn web design from a few tutorials and go from there. Web design is a little more complex than when I started in 1996, but the web design tutorial will give you a few clues.

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