This article will point out 3 simple and highly effective web design techniques that use cascading style sheets to improve your web design and make your website perform better in the major search engines.

Other factors that affect the online environment, and what we can do to mitigate their impact. Simple web designs prove more effective in many ways...

What better way to start the new year than with more traffic to your web site. Web traffic is a critical part of your internet business and it is imperative that you design it to bring you the most amount of traffic possible...

Not too long ago, a client asked me to create a new design for his company's home page. As I was getting ready to work on the design, I asked my client what the homepage needed to accomplish. In other words, what were the page's primary goals? What did the company want clients to do when they got .....

Editor's Pick in Design Principles, June 2005
One way to think about designing for web users is to consider what the brain is good at, in order to utilize its strengths.

Form Elements If you like control, then we have one piece of advice: Before designing pages with forms, take a deep breath, because it won't be a joyous experience. Form elements don't like to be tamed. Depending on the browser being used, form elements will vary in size, spacing...

For many years we have heard about the impending death of URLs that are difficult to type, remember and preserve. The use of URLs has actually improved little thus far, but changes are afoot in both development practices and Web server technology that should help advance URLs to the next generati...

Back to basics. Forget funky design, good writing is the key to a clear and intuitive website. Are you losing business because of your website? More and more customers are logging on to the Web to decide where to spend their money because it is quick and convenient, and they can jump from site to ...

In the past few weeks, I've become increasingly aware of a major problem among websites: It's very difficult to figure out what the site is actually selling. I've encountered this problem numerous times recently due to emails from people asking for advice on their websites. Unfortunately, when...

No matter how flashy or great your Web site looks, if you don't have good content you are in a boat without a paddle. I can not count the times that I have said that content is key to a Web site's success. Too many times to count...