Our next meeting date and subject
Getting your site to appear on the first page of a Google search results page (“SERP”) is not easy. “Search Engine Optimizing” for organic results needs to be just right for your website and takes a lot of custom tweaking. If first-page visibility is critical it may be time to start using the fee-based Google…
Every website has navigation links to access all the content and information presented within a site. What is the best way to plan a menu structure to be most efficient? Let’s take a look at ways to organize and design navigation priorities. WordPress offers easy navigation tools, and the theme will determine how menu(s) are…
The DACS Web Design Workshop/SIG is coming up Tuesday night, May 19th, 7 – 9 pm at the DACS Resource Center, Ives Manor (lower level), 198 Main Street, Danbury. How does one “design” a website? Regarding the front-end graphical interface – what comes first, a unique design pulled from one’s imagination, or a search for…
Recent meetings have focused a lot on WordPress , but this time we’ll change direction and take a look at a new Drupal website (CMS platform) built by Andy Woodruff. It’s quite successful from the get-go, but there are always things that can be tweaked. We’ll discuss the overall design, effectiveness, content and more. What desirable add-on’s could be implemented…
Disaster strikes and your WordPress website goes down. You try to fix it, but after a moment of panic your remember you have backups. (You do have backups…?) Although there’s a big emphasis on backing up, do you know how to actually restore a site from a backup? It’s a ‘process’ and during a crisis would be the…
Google favors responsive websites… And since ever-increasing people are viewing websites on their smart phones or tablets, it’s becoming more urgent to upgrade static sites to responsive sites. If you have an existing static site, what would be the best way to convert it? Let’s explore the options and their complexity.
Would you like to include a slick image gallery on your website? Let’s take a close look at the “Colorbox” image gallery system. This is a free/Open source jquery/javascript system for showing image enlargements on an overlay. It’s widely used on the web, but how is it done? If you want to download the current…
We see the writing on the wall.. the future of web site construction is firmly moving from hand-coded HTML pages to CMS driven sites. Systems such as Drupal, WordPress and Joomla etc., offer many advantages and dynamic features built-in, and with regular updates CMS-driven sites stay current with all the latest code, dynamic goodies, SEO…
Styling your websites with attractive and reliable fonts. In the past we had to play it safe and choose fonts we assumed were installed on viewer’s computers, Choices were limited to “serif” v/s”sans serif“, or Verdana v/s Times. Now there are many more options available now using the online @font system, and using HTML and…
The SIG meeting occurred as usual, however the planned subject – using the @font functionality – was shelved until our next meeting in October. (There is no web design SIG meeting in September.) Instead we opened up InDesign and edited, tweaked and improved the new and updated DACS tri-fold brochure. With input from all attendees,…