Choosing clients may seem like a silly idea to many developers but the fact is a lot of developers seem to accept any job that comes down the road completely unaware they may be walking into a mi...
http://davidcdalton.com/general-developer-articles/How-To-Choose-A-Web-Development-Client
Since I am limited in the amount of clients I can take on I turn a lot of potential customers down. Each and every time I do I am almost guaranteed to here the same question: "Can you recommend a...
http://davidcdalton.com/general-developer-articles/How-To-Choose-A-Web-Developer
Properly created html standard menus using simple unordered lists can give your site (or your customers) some real power and great search engine crawling stats. Throw our the old Javascript drive...
http://davidcdalton.com/xhtml-css-articles/Easy-CSS-Menus-Part-2
I'm starting to sound like a broken record to myself about this stuff but I keep getting nonsensical flack from so called designers who insist on over blown, graphic laden, Javascript driven menu...
It's an ever preset problem that plagues every website owner, freaking form spam. Some moron builds a bot or tries to hack your contact form in an effort to try and grab quick links or send out e...
http://davidcdalton.com/programming-articles/stopping-form-spam
The list of SEO "dirty tricks" keeps getting longer every day. I honestly don't know how the spiders keep up. What most people don't get is that a lot of these underhanded methods could cost you ...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/seo-articles/whats-organic-search-engine-optimization-5
They say content is king on the internet and they would be right, as long as the content is properly formatted and uses the keywords you want to get indexed on within it. Fresh, original content ...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/seo-articles/whats-organic-search-engine-optimization-4
Many of the problems I see with sites that come in to me for optimization could have been solved the first time the site was built. Honestly, even though I make a living fixing other developer's ...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/seo-articles/whats-organic-search-engine-optimization-3
I get more chuckles from "other developers" when they find out I am master certified in HTML. But they usually stop chuckling when they can't figure out what half the tags I use are and why they ...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/seo-articles/whats-organic-search-engine-optimization-2
I hear more horror stories from new customers about what they have been through with other "so called" SEO companies. Dirty tricks, expensive ad placements and banners that are nothing more than ...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/seo-articles/whats-organic-search-engine-optimization
This fun little photoshop will make you feel like a supreme being as you create planets in minutes! Recommended for Photohop™ 7 it should work fine in CS or P'shop 6. If you'd like to download ...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/design-tutorials/the-earth-in-seven-minutes
Ever once in a while I find a great Photoshop tutorial on the web and then try and expand upon it to come up with something different and usable in my web work. This is really, REALLY easy and on...
http://www.davidcdalton.com/design-tutorials/colored-line-drawings-from-images