Links and information to help you get the most out of your website development experience...

Get Googled - Get Google to crawl your website by submitting it here:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Did you get Google mad at you? - You tried to trick Google to get a higher rank but ended up dive-bombing. File a reinclusion request with Google, but fix your site first. Read more about it:
About Google reinclusion

Links to your site - An excellent article about linking to your site to drive search engine ranking:
Link Quality and Search Engine Ranking

SEO and non-HTML sites - This is a pretty layman version explaining why we don't use as much Flash as we used to, as well as other useful info:
SEO and non-HTML sites

How Search Engines Rank Web Pages - This article is a little dated, but it still has some good layman's explanations for search engine principals. An especially good resource if you are in the process of writing copy for your website:
SearchEngineWatch Article

What users hate most about websites - An interesting article from InfoWorld, a lot of it sounds obvious, but this article just goes and says it anyway:
InfoWorld Article

Webmonkey - A comprehensive web developer's resource:
www.webmonkey.com

Linkdup.com - A crazy site with some great cutting edge design examples. A ton of Flash. A good place if you are looking for inspiration and want to break away from the ordinary:
www.linkdup.com

All Graphic Design - If you are interested in graphic design, this place links to a million interesting places:
www.allgraphicdesign.com

Is your site OK on dial-up? - Check out these "Cool Tools" to check it out in a simulated 56k environment. Some other neat little things too:
Click here for Optiview Cool Tools

How we read websites - An interesting chapter on website design usability:
www.sensible.com/chapter.html

Ideabook - A nifty website with a lot of articles on design and marketing:
www.ideabook.com

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium - You want web standards? They got web standards. They are the group behind making the internet work together now and in the future:
www.w3c.org

Web standards checklist - A very simple "checklist" on building a proper website. It may not mean much to you, but it is some of the stuff we take into account when deciding how to build our websites:
www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.cfm

Accessibility Tips - A fairly boring but useful resource on how to code with accessibility in mind:
www.stack.nl/htmlhelp/design/accessibility/tips.html

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