Everyone wants a pretty website. Everyone also wants to be #1 on google. It is very difficult to achieve both with a new website unless you are willing to make a few sacrifices.

In order to index and rank your website, search engines such as google usually use programs called “bots” or “spiders” to crawl the internet and read the code of all of the websites it runs across. A search engine spider uses the links throughout a website to find all of the pages in that website, as well as find external websites that a particular page might link to, and it does this by reading the code of your website. This entire process is automated, and most search engines use their own unique algorithm’s to determine the importance of keywords found throughout the code of your website. (more…)

I can’t tell you enough how much firefox has improved my life. Not only is it 10000 times better than Internet Explorer just on its own, but the thousands add-ons you can install make life so much easier! You can find an add-on for just about anything you could ever want from your browser, but here is a list of my top 10 favorite Firefox webby add-ons:

1. Read it later: this add-on lets you… well… read it later. Its a bookmarking tool that lets you save a page in a list so you can read it at your convenience and then take it off your  list when you are done. Its much more efficient than regular bookmarking, and if you are an avid web browser, you NEED this add-on! (more…)