CompuSkills Web Design Service

What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)?

In response to a few emails we have received over the last couple of days, it seemed worthwhile to clear up the matter of the FAQs posted here.
It may seem like this are often simplistic answers to what can be very complicated questions, and this is pretty much the case. The idea behind posting these [...]

What’s wrong with Javascript? Javascript is often irritating to users. Scripts can be slow to run. They are prone to crashing. They are associated with actions that users hate – opening pop-up windows; disabling the back button; taking over the user’s browser; setting aware cookies; adding novelty effects such as cursor trails [...]

Just to let you know, Only a few days after WordPress version 2.0.6 was released, 2.0.7 has come out. This time the security fixes seem somewhat trivial to put in place (only six files to upload). Version 2.1 is due out quite soon (Feb) so this should be the last update before then. There is [...]

1&1 have been having email problems and this may have affected any mail sent to Compuskills or the Project Management service. The Web Design emails have been getting through fine.

What can I do to make my sure my site is accessible?

Is it better to write HTML or use a program like Dreamweaver? (FAQ)

Where can I finding resources on coding web pages? http://www.w3.org is always the ultimate resource. However, it’s not the easiest or most usable source in the world for a beginner.

What is XHTML? This is the W3 org’s preferred successor to HTML, although often considered to be the most current version of HTML. Where HTML is relatively loose, the standards for XHTML are stricter. It adopts elements from XML, such [...]

Should I use tables or absolute/relative positioning to place elements on the page? The formally correct, modern, answer seems to be to not use tables unless you want to display tabular data.