JIC Design Blog: SEO, Web Development and Technology

Here’s a great application for testing fonts. It’s called Typetester. It allows you to compare different font typefaces, font colours, and font styles. Check it out, it’s worth a try.

Legitimate businesses have been suffering severely with respect to email deliverability. Numerous email service providers have added a “This is SPAM” button for users to inform the service of potential unsolicited emails. This is a great idea in theory, but horrible in practice. This button has been the cause of millions of emails getting falsely […]

For years now SEO’s would tell writers and content creators to provide them with at least 250-300 words for each web page. But what does that number mean? Why 250 words? Well, after numerous years of experience, the broad SEO community had agreed that 250-300 was the magic number of words for ranking pages well […]

Yahoo has recently been putting more of an emphasis on social media and user-generated content in its local search product. This is not surprising since Yahoo has bought up numerous social media sites over the last few years. Initially Yahoo expanded its city and neighbourhood pages as well as its ratings and reviews. Recently, they […]

A great way to receive links and increase the number of backlinks to your website is by submitting articles you have written to article directories. This technique is being utilized extensively by the search marketing community. But don’t forget, to receive quality backlinks from quality sites, you should commit a significant amount of time and […]

The Golden Rule of Web Design is … ‘Everything Must have a Purpose‘. This is an essential key to achieve a highly successful web property or web site. Every single element on the website and decision made concerning the website must help users achieve their goals and support the site’s goals. Whether it’s designing a […]

RSS was one of the top web trends and web technologies of 2006. Do you use RSS? Do you know what RSS is? Well I thought I’d put together an RSS introduction for beginners and everyday users, since there is always something missing in an RSS reader.
What is RSS?
Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary […]