My Journal

When I put my new website design live one of the first things I did, once I remembered, was to submit the site to some CSS Galleries, and it’s lucky I remembered as the result has been awesome.

Traffic

The most obvious result of being featured on CSS Galleries is an increase in traffic and as the image below shows the impact on a small site can be astounding.

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When building a website there’s always that one page you just can’t be bothered with but you know has to be done. So instead of putting in the time and effort required you just throw any old shit together, more often than not this becomes the About page.

The reason for this is because there are few people that like talking about themselves and even fewer that can write about themselves. People are concerned about finding that balance between writing enough to sound interesting but not so much that you appear bigheaded or even worse a complete prick.

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Last week I received an interesting comment on my post about Google Chrome OS:

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It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally got the new design for my site live. What started as a simple clean up of the existing site became something a little bit more. It’s not quite a full redesign and rebuild as much of the essence of the previous site design and a fair amount of the code has crossed over into the new website.

I really want to run through some of the changes and decisions I’ve made to the website but to do it here in one post would be a bit pointless. Instead I’ll split it over a few posts so that I can go into a little more depth and hopefully make the posts more informative.

For now I’ll leave you to look around the site and hopefully enjoy what you find.

Everyone knows of Microsoft, and just as many know of Word its flagship Word Processor that comes bundled with the Microsoft Office suite. For many businesses if information doesn’t fit in an Excel spreadsheet it goes into Word. But many that use Word don’t know the frustrations it can cause to web professionals.

Continue reading “Client Tip 2: Word Documents”