Welcome to the June 29, 2009 edition of web developers. In this issue there are some great articles. Looking at correct choice of web colours to increase sales, techniques to getting more traffic, website design flaws, shopping carts. There is just a whole bunch of good stuff. Come in and have a look, you won't regret it.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It refers to the method of ensuring that websites are optimized to help increase their traffic, which in effect helps them appear high on search engine results. Basic SEO is actually based on a very simple concept: create content that gets easily noticed online. There are many facets to

Flash is a powerful web technology that can achieve a very high level of visual impact. This impact is purely visual, from the graphical point of view. Unfortunately, it is widely misused in web design. Flash still has many problems, mostly when it comes to usability and search engine behaviour. We need to properly understand what those problems are before we decide to use Flash for our site.

Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests rather than engaging in more social or popular activities. Therefore, a nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by peers or will tend to associate with like-minded people. The question is though, are you a Nerd? How do you know. Well here is a list of “You know you’re a Nerd when”.

Alexa is a very powerful tool used to rank web site traffic. Alexa ranks websites based solely on the amount of traffic to the website. The Alexa rank works in descending order towards 0, where the most highly visited website on the Internet is given a rank of 0. At the time of this writing the top five ranked websites (most visitors) on Alexa are, 1- Google, 2 – Yahoo, 3 – YouTube, 4- Facebook, 5 – Windows Live. These stats tell us, that according to Alexa, these are the top five sites on the internet with regards to the amount of traffic they

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Welcome to the June 22, 2009 edition of web developers. In this edition we have many interesting posts. From marketing for beginners to popular CSS frameworks. Some awesome web design tutorial. How to back up your SQL 2008 express database. Keyword research and how to choose the right keywords. An article about the rise of new search engines. THen some web browser hacks for IE,  Firefox, Chrome Safari and Opera.

I have been asked many times over the years how to import data from Excel into MS SQL database. I myself have had many scenarios where I have had to export or import data from MS Excel into MS SQL. There are many ways of achieving this goal. But sad to say, many people do not know all of them and opt to retype or recapture the data. Sometimes, depending on the Excel Spreadsheet structure you have to type it in. This can be a difficult and laborious task.

A new twitter search engine is on the market. Created by former Microsoft search head Ken Moss, CrowdEye gives several views of a topic based on the conversations taking place on Twitter, as well as an historical view on that particular topic.

Found this on Sitepronews. Brilliant. What is the most popular site on the internet? How to get the most popular site on the internet.

Many might think they know a lot, but the truth is we can’t possibly know everything. This is why books are so important. They help us to hone our skills and teach us new things we did not know, as well as renew the stuff we had forgotten. But the problem is that books are just so expensive. So when one finds something for free, it warrants a closer look.