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A recent trend I’ve noticed on some Australian media websites has been evoking my interest for a few months now. Sites like The Age and Fox FM have started overlaying a lovely coloured banner with a caption over feature images. The great thing is, they’re not rendered but glorious SEO-friendly and accessible HTML and CSS. I’m not surprised, however, since The Age and Fox FM have always been trend early adopters. The ABC still beats them, though.

Unfortunately, this effect can’t be achieved without knowing and entering the width and height of an image - making it kind of tedious to implement. After deciding that I’d like to use it with wordpress posts, it was decided that a tool should be built. And then The Lovely Caption Maker was born. Here’s an example of Lovely Caption Maker’s glory: (more…)

In technology, there’s always the goal of making complex and difficult things more simple - this goal has brought about ‘clean URLs’. Clean URLs are website addresses that are easy for people (and also search engines) to read and understand. For example: An interesting article about the Bermuda Triangle might be at www.articles.com/article.php?id=23452 - That address tells us (and search engines) nothing about the article. Using a clean URL, the same article might be at www.articles.com/articles/bermuda-triangle - much easier, right? Well, here is how you can implement this on your website… (more…)

Although always available, I want to publicise one of the features offered by logon2 that can make your website a living, rich, thriving community - rather than just another website. I’m talking about adding a blog to your website or even turning your website into a blog. If implemented properly, a blog is a communication platform between you and your audience. It improves your relationship with customers, returns feedback from customers, brings you new customers and it gives you total control of your website… (more…)

After about two months of the logon2 blog, it’s time to check the statistics. After a bit of inspection and investigation, I found an interesting (but kind of obvious) pattern that brings a load of new traffic over and over again… (more…)

In the last two or three weeks, something that had been long awaited had finally arrived. Google finally allowed webmasters to set the geographic region of the primary audience of a website. (more…)

MySpace is all about networking. For those who want to grow their network and therefore get more exposure and a larger audience, here are a few tips: (more…)