Small Business Design Resources

Quick Tip: How to Make a Banner Clickable

To make any image such as a banner clickable you will need to add HTML code to that image.

Here’s an example code that you can use:
<a href=”http://www.designleap.net”><img src=”image_name.jpg”></a>
replace www.designleap.net with any website where you want the image to link to
replace image_name.jpg with your image name (if your image is in a subfolder make sure you include the correct location)

Quick Tip: Update Your Website Often

Updating your website often keeps your website fresh in search engines. When I say update I’m not talking about a constant redesign, I’m referring to content. Search engines love text, so the more often your website has fresh content for them to scan, the more “points” your website gets for being an up-to-date source for visitors. The best way to add content to your website is by publishing articles on your blog of course. Learn more about What is Blogging.

Quick Tip: Link Correctly to Your Homepage

It’s very important for SEO purposes that you link to your homepage correctly. Basically when you link from your inner pages or another website back to your homepage you must be sure that you’re linking directly to the root address, in other words link directly to your domain name.

So for example if your homepage is saved as home.html DON’T link to yourwebsite.com/home.html instead, just link to yourwebsite.com

This helps search engines such as Google to index and rank your pages correctly. When you’re sending some visitors to yourwebsite.com/home.html and others to yourwebsite.com the search engines see that as two separate pages which is not good SEO practice.

Quick Tip: Register Your Domain Name for More than 1 Year

If your domain shows that it’s expiring in less then a year, the search engines see your website as not being stable and they may deduct points for SEO. It’s best to register your domain name for more than a year to show the search engines that you have a stable website and that you’re not a temporary spam site.

Quick Tip: Measure Anything on a Website with MeasureIt Firefox add-on

Do you ever need to know the size of a window, a banner, or a column on a website, but have no idea how to measure it? Well, if you’re using the Firefox browser, now you can download the MeasureIt add-on.

Once you download the MeasureIt add-on, you’ll notice a ruler icon on the lower left-hand corner of your browser window. To measure anything on your screen follow these simple steps:

• Click on the ruler icon and your mouse pointer will change to a plus sign.
• Click and drag your mouse over anything on your screen to measure it. (You’ll notice that while you drag you get a light blue box that looks like a ruler and a measurement in pixels is shown to right.)
• That’s it, when done just click on the ruler icon on the bottom of your screen again to exit.