The Good News
As web designers we have all welcomed the transition from 640×480 to 800×600 and finally to 1024×768 – the currently accepted web design “standard”. The extra horizontal and vertical space has allowed more content to be placed “above the fold”. Designs have gotten more sophisticated and images have been made much larger.
Also, as [...]
Website Design: 16:9 Aspect Ratios | The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
I Survived Pubcon ‘09 – Quick Impressions of the Search Marketing Conference
Still groggy and trying to figure out what day it is, I’ll attempt to offer a few quick impressions of Pubcon ‘09. Once my brain reboots and my body forgives me from four nights in Vegas, I’ll take a more in-depth look at some interesting take-aways from Pubcon. Here’s the basics.
Pubcon attracts some of the brightest minds in search [...]
B2B Search Marketing Agency Increases Web Design & Development Staff
Metter Advertising, Inc., a search engine marketing and Web development agency specializing in industrial and business-to-business clientel, today announced the addition of a Web Design & Development Specialist to its staff in an effort to expand in-house Web development capabilities.
Colin Devine, who most recently served as a Web Developer for NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., [...]
Displaying Latest Wordpress Posts on Static Home Page
An example of how to show latest Wordpress posts on static pages outside of the blog.
Continue Reading >B2B Press Releases – Are You Publishing Industrial News?
In today’s Internet world publishing news about your company’s products and services can provide significant benefits.
Continue Reading >Three Main Tactics of Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization has exploded into an entire industry and become an essential element to any successful business-to-business marketing strategy. When evaluating search marketing agencies to partner with or determining which SEO tactics to implement, it’s helpful to break down search engine optimization into three basic tactics.
Each SEO tactic is a unique discipline and requires [...]
Website Analytics – Are You Falling Into the “Last Ad Trap”?
Many of the tools used to analyze online marketing campaigns focus on the “last ad” that a user clicked. Often, these tools are blind to activity not directly leading to, or occurring on, a company’s website.
Continue Reading >Using CSS to Create Current States on Server Side Includes (SSI) Navigation
The basic idea is to assign each link a unique ID so that when they are placed inside a box with a specified class only the corresponding link will have the current state. This way you can have the same unordered list navigation code on every page or have it included and still apply the current state CSS.
Continue Reading >Web Design & Development Specialist Career Opportunity
Metter Advertising, Inc. is actively searching for a Web Design and Development Specialist to fill an immediate need on our staff. This is a full-time position. Please check our Careers page for additional information.
Here is a brief overview:
Metter Advertising, Inc. has a full-time career opportunity for a talented WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST at our [...]
Customize WordPress wp_list_pages Navigation to Expand For Use as CMS
Wordpress automatically adds the classes current_page_item and current_page_ancestor to the corresponding lines of the list that is generated from the template tag wp_list_pages. If you have multiple levels of pages you can use these classes to show and hide the expanded navigation and add current styles.
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