A client recently wanted to include validation on their website registration form that would not only check that the input text was a genuine email address but also to disallow registration of any “free” email addresses.
Using jQuery we can easily add this to the website by creating a regular expression, which checks for email addresses [...]
Email Validation Using jQuery
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Create a Reverse-Order Ordered List Using jQuery
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Earlier I came across a small website coding “problem”, which required me to create a “top-ten” list of items in reverse order.
Usually ordered lists are very simple to create using the following code:
<ol>
<li>List item 1</li>
<li>List item 2</li>
<li>List item 3</li>
<li>List item 4</li>
<li>List item 5</li>
</ol>
Which will produce the following ordered list:
List item [...]
Quick and Easy jQuery Image Swap
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Here is a very quick and easy way to implement image swap on hover on your website using jQuery.
With the jQuery javascript library already added to your website add the following javascript code between the tags in your web page:
jQuery(function(){
$(“.img-swap”).hover(
[...]
SEO – Simple Notes about Linking with other Sites
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Make no mistake – Google rates your quality score / SERP (search engine results page/position) using the quantity and quality of incoming links (backlinks) to you site. This is a big subject, critical to your SEO success, and not an easy thing to achieve.
There are a number of websites and services to help evaluate the [...]
Blogging – Easy to Do, Do it Often
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Blogging is very important for the success of your internet business.
Log in, add a new post, select a category, publish.
If you use good keywords, write good content, the world will find you.
We can help you do this, just contact us.
Design Chemical Alchemy – SEO Checklist – Keywords in the URL
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
As we mentioned in our blog post about page title, keywords in URLs are important, but the keywords need to be in the content as well.
What we mean by this is something like:
www.bestspyphone.com
www.bestspyphone.com/parental-control-software.html
And then the page title, the meta description, headers and content must use those keywords.
Simple stuff really, but you’d be surprised how overlooked [...]
Design Chemical Alchemy – SEO Checklist – Page Title Tag
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Very important The title tag must be short (6 or 7 words) and the keyword must be near the beginning. There is some debate about how long to make the title because search engines read more than what is displayed. I suggest not being too cute and just make sure it is relevant and meaningful, [...]
Design Chemical Alchemy – SEO Checklist – Press Releases
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Press Releases and Article Marketing is hard work, but writing quality articles on your topics and submitting them to PR submission services and article directories will give you relevant backlinks from quality websites, as well as direct incoming traffic.
We can either produce these, or at least advise on how to get the best results from [...]
Design Chemical Alchemy – SEO Checklist – Directory Submissions
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Directory Submissions are not what they used to be but still matter, especially for new sites hungry for traffic and backlinks.
Website directories give your site a quick description and a link to a landing page. This is a proven way to build a many backlinks in a short period of time. They won’t perform miracles, [...]
Design Chemical Search Engine Marketing
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Got Adwords?
While you’re waiting for SEO to take affect, you might want to consider implementing Search Engine Marketing SEM to either jumpstart your business or as a permanent part of your business development portfolio.
We can help design, develop and manage you Google Adwords, Bing, Yahoo or Social Networking Advertising (Facebook) campaigns.