Thinking outside the box is very important when designing website for either yourself or your client there are always the Basics of Website Design that we should follow, however the future of the site you are designing is very important and must be at the forefront of our mind. Thinking Out Side of The Box what has that have to do with designing a website you may ask?. I try and explain this every website or blog has a purpose online and also a future and this is where thinking outside of the box comes in.

Future Updates

Every website must be design with the future in mind this will make it easier for future upgrades as technology changes and changes to CSS and JavaScript we must update our website and never let it fade or dies because it becomes out dated. One main principle of web design is to ensure that you uses valid CSS and HTML when designing your website. With that done then styling the outer side and content becomes simpler and rather straight forward.

Using CSS

As you are all aware different browsers render cascading style sheets differently and with CSS3 and HTML5 already in use not all browsers are compliant at the time of writing this post, However don’t be afraid to use them in your design. As for CSS3 i would advise to put them in a separate style sheet and import it into you pages my reason for this is at a presentational level, thus leaving your main style sheet to validate accurately. Another key area in your future proof design is legislation in regards to accessibility.

Flash Vs JavaScript

Using flash while building your website for interaction is good some feels it is not good for SEO but as we have seen in the last few years Designers are building less and less using Flash the obvious reason here and yes you guest it right with the introduction of the JQuery library JavaScript has now reclaim its position in our design life cycle once again. To say Flash is Obsolete is risky but in the long run JavaScript for interaction seems to be winning.

So when building any website the future should always be in your mind making sure that your website is future proof . So take a look at your website and ask yourself the question is my website Future Proof?, if the answer is yes then you have nothing to be concern about. Now i put it to you to challenge yourself and get your website future proof. Please feel free to share your comment and suggestion on this topic.

Search Engine Optimisation is on every website owners agenda unless your website is just a photo blog that you share with your closet friends and family, if that is the case then that is okay else you need to Optimize your contents for better search engine results. Writing you blog post is brilliant we can write as much as we want, a post a day or twice daily that is brilliant without any visitors we are just building an archive of post or creating something for future reference. Doing that is just like paying your insurance premium and waiting for something to happen to benefit from it.

Using Your Main Keyword

Choosing your keyword for your web page is very important and you should pay attention to this. How do people find your website?, the obvious answer would be by searching using search engines, now that we establish this fact we realize that our website must be visible in search results pages for us to get notice. How do i do that you may asked?, by optimizing our web pages is the answer, lets face it there are billions of web pages out there and the competition is on for the two first Search Engine Results Pages.

Search Engines

Search Engines understands what a web page is all about by reading the contents of those pages and analysing the frequency of your keyword or phrases in the content. You or you Search engine Consultant can encourages search results by associating your web pages with your chosen keyword or keyword phrases. The idea here is to get in front of all your competitors and be listed on the front pages of all major Search Engines.

Paying Attention

Sometimes we need to start looking at the basics like paying attention to your title, Contrary to popular belief your “Blog Title” plays a vital role in the optimization process so it is an important point of focus, All the popular blogging platform allows you to modify this through their control panel . Your h1 tags they are very important . Increasing your keyword density is another valuable idea for your blog, but be careful not to stuff your post with to much keywords this might seems like spam and could be banned by Search Engines like Google.

They are other ways to Optimize your website and its’ content like (1) Using HTML Tags to emphasize the importance of your Keywords (2) Including Meta tags in your website using again keyword or keyword phrases and last but not least do it the old fashion way submit your blog to all major search engines. these are just some simple tips to optimize your website try them and remember it takes time and testing and tweaking will bring you the results you need. If you like this post go on feel free to share it.

One of our biggest nightmare are “Spammers” every blogger will tell you this they hate spamming and this seems to be on the increase and they are getting smarter and smarter every day. Looking at the types of Comments that are spam it is clear to believe that they are generate by humans, not by computer robots anymore ,yes you are reading right humans are paid to write spam comments on our blogs for cash. Since the beginning of this year i have deleted over nine hundred spam comments from my blog and still counting i think it is getting worst. Now it is time to fight back enough is enough.

Installing Plugins

This is a very good idea there are a few plug-in that help to control or limit the amount of spam comments that you received is good but although they are getting more and more sophisticated, from previous observations spam are not just computerised robots anymore they are now humans would you believe that website owners are now paying people to write spam comments on our blog. So using automated plug-in to detect if the entries are made by computer robots are now defeated.

Comment Filter

This is one of the most important extension i have installed on my blog, this can block spam comments in three different ways; (1) By their email address but remember most spammers don’t use their correct email address so option (2) comes in handy, what’s this you may asked? , let me explain this is blocking suspected commentators by their website or their URLs this is good because spammers are looking for back links to their websites. The third option is to enforce IP blocking this method is very effective as most spam comments are from the same IP address so this works well and i currently activates this option on my blog, this one helps to reduce spam comments by about 90 percent. Another good trick is to closed you post to commenting after a period of time this is not ideal but it works fine for me.

Returning the Spam

I know this may sounds silly but at one point i get so much spam comments pointing to a particular website won’t mentioned the name because that will be publicity for them that i got fed up and copy all the comments and post them back to their blog using the name “I hate Spam” it works that website never spam me again. You can say grabbing the bulls by the horns.`