These two articles, How to Engage Your Audience with the New Facebook Timeline for Pages and Facebook Timeline for Pages – Frequently Asked Questions, really helped me as I started redesigning my Facebook Fan Page. I was able to create a brightly colored button to attract visitors to my fan page to view my custom landing page. One thing I noticed is that the width of these pages has expanded from 520px to 800px, giving you more room for...

According to this post, the same format that personal profiles use will become the standard for fan pages for businesses and other groups. This means that business fan pages will have the same scrapbook feel that personal profile pages have, giving more prominence to links, videos and other snippets you place on your site. This post describes the changes, stating that default landing tabs for Facebook are going away. It will require new...

  I love using Google web fonts. They are free, they are beautiful, and they are accessible to any browser and Internet user. This article talks a little about Google fonts and some of the other tools available to web designers: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/01/06/getting-started-with-web-fonts-google-typekit-and-font-face/ I really enjoy working Elegant Themes WordPress themes because most of the newer themes have Google web fonts built...

  Search engines have more ways to index specialized kinds of data. Like, say, a recipe. I never thought about the fact that a recipe should be indexed in a very specialized way until a client, Calahaln Farm, told me about SEO (search engine optimization) of recipes via Google. I searched the WordPress index and found an SEO plugin for recipes. It’s a cool idea. It puts recipes into a growing Google database and allows you to search...

  When doing web design and development in North Carolina there are many challenges. NC businesses are unique, and people have specific concerns. Color is important. I notice that many people I work with want to have a lot of input in terms of the colors and styles of their pages. Seasons, local architecture, and the way content is displayed is very important. In the Triad area, there are many artists and small business. I enjoy working...

  This article outlines the main security concerns when working with WordPress: Random attacks through web addresses in an attempt to break in to your website Index pages that display a bunch of files (like images) Attacks at your server through WordPress Insecure data or errors that can lead to security loopholes The article is great for developers as it outlines the main measures you can take to secure your WordPress site. It really...