I launched a new website for Environmental NZ[1] yesterday. This site serves as a forum for New Zealand environmental engineers, and is owned and operated by a mate of mine. Yes, I will sometimes design a website for a couple of bottles of wine if you push me long and hard enough :) It's another CMS based site, and the success of any forum is based on how well the community is established -...

Stolen content is probably more prevalent on the internet than most people think. It's so easy to steal content by right clicking and "view source" compared with the task of creating your own... Except when someone steals YOUR content.... With the internet being the vast place that it is, and given that digital information is designed to be copied, it's surprising this doesn't happen more...

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION is the process of engineering your site to achieve better search engine positions. Search engine optimisation can be done in many different ways, this article covers the first steps you should take in /search engine optimisation/. KEYWORD RESEARCH Before starting any...

A content management system, or cms is a web application for managing websites. The content management system will provide you with a login which you can use to change part of the content on the website. HOW CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WORK All content management systems are different - built...

Duplicate content is a problem with many websites, and most webmasters don't realise they are doing anything wrong. Most search engines want to provide relevant results for their users, it's how Google got successful. If the search engine was to return 5 identical pages on the same page of the...

Quite often after you SEO a client's website, they will right-click their new site and have a gander at the META keywords to see if you have done a good job or not. Because SEO is all about META keywords right? Well, not so much anymore. After not bothering with Meta Keywords for some time...

So here I am at 8:00 at night coding away, adding some Javascript to an existing page to save on those frustrating page reloads. The purpose of this script is to preload the values of a form with a choice predefined defaults. Nothing too complicated here. So I query the database to get the data,...

Whilst trolling the net late the other night, I came across an interesting way of using fonts other than Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman etc on your website. This has been a common problem amongst web designers. You can opt for the standard H1 ttiles, which are standards compliant, search...