It's been a little more than a week, so I've given you a little extra to keep you well stocked with web design, development and IT resources.

Design / CSS

2013 color trends on the web

My CSS “Aha moment”

One of the biggest question clients ask is how to improve their site’s visibility on search engines. The concern is even greater with online storeowners. Products from their store appearing high in the search results lead to an increase in visitors and sales. Millions of online users are searching for products, topics and interests utilizing the most popular search engines including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. These search engines depend on proper markup and formatted content on sites in order to direct users to the best results. There are several things companies can do to improve their ranking or position in search results for free. One major aspect to consider is your site schema or markup and how a search engine understands it.

HTML Formatting Doesn’t Cut It

Good HTML formatting helps control how browsers actually render content on a page, but a little more is needed in order to tell a search engine crawling the site exactly what the content represents. Additional vocabulary and microdata is needed to provide Google, Bing and other more detail. A search engine will have a limited understanding of page content, but microdata clarifies the exact topic of the content.

The steady increase in traffic on the web has led to more companies to invest time and money into their online presence. Whether the goal is to build the site from scratch or make an upgrade, there is a lot of planning that goes into the initiative. Before anything is built or coded, several questions need to be answered that determine the actual scope of the project.

I'm always on the lookout for exciting ideas and new technologies to broaden my knowledge of web development and design. Each week, I'll be posting links to articles on development, design and other miscellanious information that I find interesting. What follows are the highlights of the links I've recently discovered. I hope you find them as useful as I did.