Google has announced – again – that they DO NOT use the keywords META tag in their keyword search.
The keywords META tag, if you don’t know, looks like this:
<meta name="keywords" content="bay area web design company, alameda web design, alameda web designer, internet marketing, web design, website design, web designer, web developer, alameda, san francisco, california, web hosting">
So, if you think you can just drop your desired keywords into this tag, forget it.
NOTE: Other search engines may use the Keywords META tag, but Google does not.
I am running Windows Vista and I have Windows Update setup to ‘Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them’. Sometimes I don’t want to install updates for one reason or another.
The problem with this setup is that when you don’t install updates, the program keeps alerting me to update.
I found out a way to prevent Windows Update from notifying me all the time.
Go to Windows Update in the Control Panel
Click on ‘View Available Updates’
Right click on the update you don’t want to install and be notified of
Recently I wrote about sketching out a wireframe first, on paper, before opening up any software program. We call that Stage 2: Information Design. (Stage 1: Strategic Planning is all about getting and analyzing content and establishing a goal or objective for the website).
Well, I wanted you to see what became of that sketch. (It became a website, of course)
After I sketched out, on paper, where I wanted content to go, I used Adobe (or Macromedia) Fireworks to design the homepage wireframe.
Matt Duncan Homepage Wireframe
After a couple of revisions from the client, we moved onto Stage 3: Visual Design. This is the stage where all the colors and typefaces come in. We essentially wrap the design around the content.
Matt Duncan Visual Design
After a few revisions from the client, it’s onto Stage 4: Production. This is the stage where the picture above becomes a working website with links, rollovers, rotators, database integration and more.
The MJS blog was created to share with others our successes, mistakes and experiences while on the internet. I hope we're able to provide some useful and meaningful advice in the process.
I am running Windows Vista and I have 
