Archive for the 'General' Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
PNG is obviously the best choice for images when designing websites. This can be argued of course, but the file size is small, and most importantly, there is true transparency available. If you ever see a cool little badge floating around on a website, chances are that it’s PNG. That said, I don’t use them.
Why? [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
The Happy Viking in Yuba City has officially launched their new website promoting this Yuba City sports bar and pizza parlor! The owners wanted a website with a whimsical feel, and The Site Smiths delivered! The website uses a flash animated header on the front page, a scrolling news area, java script menus, and best [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
If this is something you must do, here is a plug in to make it happen.
http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
There are a lot of ways to make money with a website. One of the most obvious is to become an affiliate marketer for a site such as eBay or Amazon. Here are a few tools to facilitate that using Wordpress:
http://bayrss2.com/
$37.Bayrss2 is pretty simple, and allows different auctions to appear on each page. For [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
There is good reason to discontinue support of older browsers, and Microsoft even now recommends to quit building sites for Internet Explorer 5.
Here is what they say
Basically, they can’t build there own websites to work with such an old browser. While there is benefit in making sure your website looks good across all browsers, there [...]
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Site Smiths is proud to announce that we have partnered with the Yuba City Downtown Business Association to provide web services to the DBA, as well as all of it’s members!
As a member (or associate member) of the Downtown Business Association, you will be entitled to 20% off custom web site design services provided [...]
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The Site Smiths has just completed an incredible Alabama Attorney Directory for Local-Attorney.com. If you are in need of finding an attorney in Alabama, then check out this wonderful resource! Even better, if you have experience with any of the attorneys in the directory, you can write a review!
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
When you begin an aggressive link trading campaign, it’s important to do so in a logical manner. I decide on a given industry, and then search by geographic location. Well, it starts out pretty easy. Let’s say you decide to contact chiropractors for a link trade. I usually start off with the Bay Area, as [...]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Craigslist is the best. I’ve found apartments, sold computers, and bought all sorts of items with it since about 2000. Craigslist gets great search results as well. For example, a while back I had discovered an interesting niche for printing skate board decks. I posted an ad on Craigslist offering the service in the Bay [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
When designing a website, it is necessary to fill your pages with content to see what the overall page will look like once it is finished. To that end, web designers including The Site Smiths have long been borrowing from the graphic design profession and specifically their use of dummy text for graphic designs. All [...]
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