ejcross.com

In my previous article entitled “To WWW or not and how to redirect your blog“, I wrote about a neat plugin for Wordpress users that allow you to specify the URL redirection. If your not familiar with this process, let me take a moment to describe why I use it.

When I first registered this domain name, it was registered without the www portion in front of it, so that when someone visits ejcross.com they come upon my site. The one issue that I became aware of while monitoring site statistics was that people were also using www.ejcross.com to get to this site. This got me curious about whether there was any search engine optimization problems that this would create.

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In a previous article I wrote entitled Essentials for your Wordpress blog, I briefly touched on a few of the most useful Wordpress plugins that I am using currently. One of the plugins that I really felt needed more attention was the way that Wordpress handles the domain name of a site.

When I established this site, I wasn’t too aware of the fact that there was a difference between http://www.ejcross.com and http://ejcross.com. Lot’s of people might be confused about this as well. So you might ask, what’s the big deal?

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Since I began this site in May, I have learned quite a few things about Wordpress and blogging in general. Some of the things that I have learned deal with search engine optimization techniques (SEO), optimizing your blog for usability and accessibility, while others make the site visitors experience better. These few items will hopefully help you in your site, whether you are planning one or already have one.

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There has been a lot of debate lately about how to design sites that allows for the most usable and accessible font size for each user. One of the greatest debates is how, as a designer and coder of a site, should in fact set the font size for the particular site that allows for the resizing in order for visually impaired users to read the site.

There have been widgets or javascripts that have allowed the user to click on a button that will make the size bigger or smaller to their own personal liking, however the better approach is to educate the user about their browsers particular settings in order to make things work better. This is because not every site has this widget or setting on the site to allow you to resize the font size to your liking. So, in helping to educate and spread the word like other sites are doing, I would like to help you, my reader, to learn how to resize your font size for your browser to make your viewing more enjoyable, and usable.

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Have you ever gotten tired of trying to type something on your computer, only to have to take the time to move your hand over to the mouse, move it around and then click to accomplish something simple? You know what I mean, you feel like after a long day online or working on that site design or what ever you might be working on, that if you only had a quarter for every mouse click…

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