If you’re a designer, you’ve run into the issue of web-safe fonts in your designs before. If you’re not a designer, then you might be wonder just what IS a web-safe font?

Web-safe fonts are those fonts likely to be present on a wide range of computer systems, and are used by web content authors to increase the chance that content will be displayed in their chosen font. If a visitor to a website does not have the specified font, their browser will select an alternative — in the case of dingbat typefaces the alternative is unlikely to have similar…

I’ve seen it a million times. A beautifully designed website will come across my desk, but the current or prospective client complains, “Why isn’t my site being found in the search engines?”

I’m here to tell you that good design doesn’t necessarily mean good SEO. In fact, most designers and programmers don’t have the slightest clue where to being when it comes to search engine optimization.

Since I double as an SEO Analyst and Web Designer, I’m going to give you some tips for designing a search-friendly website.

1. The Design First, SEO Second Stigma

One of the biggest issues…

Want to learn how to do a cool JQuery Scrolling Effect on your site? It’s actually very easy to do! You can thank my good friend Eric Leslie at On Scene Media & Marketing for requesting this JQuery Scrolling Effect Tutorial.

JQuery is an awesome yet easy coding language and there are many other cool things you can do with it. I will try to show you how to implement the JQuery Scrolling Effect on your site in 5 easy steps…

You can see an example of JQuery Scrolling in action on…

Now I will show you have to integrate the Twitter for Wordpress plugin by Ricardo González into your Wordpress blog’s design. This plugin will enabled you to display your latest Twitter Tweets anywhere on your Wordpress blog.

First download the Twitter for Wordpress Plugin, install it in wp-content › plugins, then go activate it in the Wordpress plugins admin area.

Now, decide where you are going to place it. I will leave it up to you where to place yours, but I decided to put mine right in the site’s header.…