Blue Dreamer Blog

2008 23rd Feb

The truth and lies of web site statistics

Posted by Rob in Site management | 0 comments

If you hear someone claim their web site had one million hits last month that's not the full story, the term "hits" is essentially a useless measurement of web site performace.

2008 16th Feb

A passion for music and stone circles

Posted by Rob in Out of the box | 3 comments

When I'm not creating web sites I follow my passion for music and stone circles. Once I had the chance to combine the two and played music inside Stonehenge!

2008 9th Feb

Welcome to my site

Posted by Rob in Usability | 0 comments

Site authors often open with a "welcome to our site" statement, but is this really necessary and can you say something that offers more value to your visitors?

2008 2nd Feb

A beginners guide to search engine optimisation

Posted by Rob in | 0 comments

Getting your site listed in search engines is usually not a problem, but getting found is a completely different ball game and using the right text copy can make or break your sites success.

2008 26th Jan

An introduction to JShop Server shopping cart

Posted by Rob in Ecommerce | 5 comments

JShop is a mature shopping cart that's developed in the UK. It's such a well rounded system that it can be easily adapted to suit any type of thing you want to sell.

2008 19th Jan

Favicons

Posted by Rob in Web Design | 0 comments

Those little images your see in your browsers address bar are called "favicons" yet few customers actually ask for them. If you didn't know what they were here's an explaination...

2008 12th Jan

ExpressionEngine - organising your content

Posted by Rob in ExpressionEngine | 13 comments

The first in a series of articles about ExpressionEngine CMS from a users perspective. In this first part I'll be looking at your web site content and all the options for how you can display it.

2008 5th Jan

10 tips for writing for the web

Posted by Rob in Content management | 0 comments

Getting your message across to your sites visitors needs different style of writing to other forms of media. Here are 10 tips you can use when writing content for your site.

2007 29th Dec

New Bluehorses cd Thirteen Fires

Posted by Rob in Out of the box | 1 comments

It's been a long time in the making but my favourite bands new album was launched during the recent Xmas mini tour. A new band web site is also in the making!

2007 22nd Dec

Is your web designer still using html tables for page layout?

Posted by Rob in Web Design | 0 comments

Using HTML tables for page layout is an outdated method, and web browsers have evolved sufficiently to support the correct way of marking up pages using Cascading Style Sheets. What does your web designer do?

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