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How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic
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On The Google Jagger Algo Update - Part 1
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Real Life Internet Evil: Microsoft's Smart Tags
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Top mistakes first time web developers often make.

So you are new to web design and development. You are thinking of creating a web site, well below are the top 15 mistakes created by first time web designers.

Most people who are reading this will probably know these already but it was writting for those who don't know.


  • Using frames

  • Going overboard with high tech "tricks"

  • Under construction signs

  • Misusing Graphics

  • Ransom note fonts

  • Complex backgrounds

  • To many animations

  • Orphan pages

  • No organisation

  • No unique content

  • Too many ideas

  • No authoritativeness

  • Outdated links or information

  • Negative declarations

  • Link problems


To often these mistakes are made, and it some times it cannot be helped. However if we try to keep these in mind we have a better opportunity to create a cleaner and better designed world wide web.

A well designed and developed web site


U.S.-Bound Passenger Jet Diverted Due To 'Security Issue' On Board
US Airways Flight 787 was headed to Charlotte, N.C., from Paris when it landed in Bangor, Maine, instead. The Transportation Security Administration says there was a report of "suspicious behavior" by a passenger.

Lighter Sentence In Clementi Bullying Case
On Monday, Dharun Ravi was sentenced to a 30-day jail term for using a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi. Clementi was having an intimate encounter with another man in their dorm room, and a few days later, he committed suicide. Host Michel Martin discusses the sentence with Paul Butler, a law professor and former federal prosecutor.

Do Credit Card Laws Not Value Homemakers?
Stay-at-home mom Holly McCall says she manages her family's finances and has perfect credit. But due to a federal law, she was denied a credit card because she doesn't make an income. McCall wants the law changed, but Aracely Panameno with the Center for Responsible Lending says the law is necessary. Host Michel Martin speaks with both women.


can give you the desired effect that you are looking for. I have personally redevloped many clients web sites that were developed previously in the web page boom when businesses wanted web sites but didn't care what they looked like or how they functioned.

On the flip side you could say that in a few years won't we be saying the same thing about table designs. Well you are write we already are, there is a big movement for web sites to use CSS positioning now for the creation of layouts and there is not doubt that soon after that there will be something new.

So all we can do is develop using the latest technologies that will ensure us the chance to have a web site that will stay current for a little while.

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