A Blog in Suburban Glory: Web Design Ideas and Inspiration

There are in the region of 100 or 200 new free directories posted up every month in the Solicitations & Announcements forum at Digital Point. Of those roughly only about a dozen are worth submitting to.

Lets examine what makes a good directory and what makes a bad one.

I think that a lot of us Brits have been quite shocked and offended by the lies and slander that has been directed towards our National Health Service from certain minority groups in the United States

The Democrats with Obama at their head are trying to push forward the health care reforms ...

Finishing off my trip through the Drupal modules section here is the final installment from the letters Q to Z.

I didn't cover Views or Ubercart as they demand expansive posts in their own right.

Hopefully the forthcoming new Drupal.org site will bring the necessary ju...

I first used Panels 2 about a year ago for dofollow001.com. Panels allows the Drupal webmaster to add different sections and alter the layout without the need to tamper directory with the theme code.

It is a very powerful module and for those serious about Drupal web design it is inevitable...

I run a free press release distribution site called PressRelease001.com and for some time I've had a problem with a number of registered members who sign up under different user names and submit poor quality and unwanted items.

These users are particularly keen on submitting items that are ...

There are many reasons why data from a database needs to be presented in an attractive multi-column layout. It may be that you have a list of user names or site editors and contributors to display, or a list of categories for visitors to browse.

It is for the latter case that I needed both ...

The more complex a form in Drupal the more likely it will use Javascript to collapse certain sections.

In many ways it's a good thing for usability as the submit and preview buttons are at the bottom of a form and the less scrolling down to reach these the better.

Howeve...

Not always, but most of the time I stick to Helvetica for titles and Verdana in CSS files. The vast majority of web designers have a very few number of fonts that they prefer. It's not that there isn't the choice of fonts available, it's because of poor support across the various operating system.

The other day I was looking at web design companies listed in the Yahoo...

Widely used and known about in professional SEO circles, Majestic SEO is perhaps not such a familiar tool amongst happy SEO amateurs.

But if you really want to get under the bonnet of your own backlinks then Majestic is the se...