Writings on web design and higher education from Missoula, MT

In the world of SEO the title tag really is king, not to mention the fact that users see the title tag as the label to their bookmark. Because of this, a developer must spend much time making sure the title tag is well formed.

Luckly, the user’s mind and a search engine work very similarly to each other. The first words are the most important, and often the only ones looked at. Because of this, the true nature of your content must be first in the title tag. For pages this is the title of the page, for posts, the title of the post, and for my home page, a place where there is a hodge-podge of information, I decided it should be my name (so I actually show up in search results for my name). This means I have to first write a bit of PHP code to distinguish these different types of situations, and print some info in the title tag for each of them. Here is what I came up with: Read the rest of this entry »

Where did all the style go? No need to adjust your browser, today (April 5th, 2006) is CSS Naked Day. Read the rest of this entry »

I decided to implement the Fold Page Menus plugin for Wordpress on my site to allow me to give users a deeper navigational display than I previously had. It worked great, but with one problem, and I’d like to share my solution with the community.

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I noticed a while ago that there are two forms of punctuation that I like to use in my writing, the semicolon and th em dash (—). Semicolon is an easy one, because it is easily recognized in the standard character set, the em dash is another story altogether! Here I will show you how to add an em dash to your WP Quicktags in less than a minute (file transfer included!)

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