Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

Helpful things I have written to help out people aspiring to be web designers, graphic designers, or be webmasters

Magazine style looking blogs have been all the rage lately, and one of the best ways to enchance the look of your blog and give it this look is by adding thumbnails to your posts.  As you can see, I’ve added the functionality to this blog, and now I’ll show how you can make a [...]

Whenever you have a form on your website, and you are putting that data into a MySQL database, you have to take some precautions.  People can inject SQL queries from the form, and you can’t let people do that. Just imagine if someone injected a DROP TABLE statement.

The number one thing that kills most blogs is that people cannot update them regularly.  Maybe they lose interest or move on to other projects, or are just to busy. I’ll be honest, it’s happened to me before.

Kaboodle and ThisNext are really good tools for helping get traffic and sales at your e-commerce store. They are stores that let anyone list any product from any store, and share recommendations, wishlists, and so on.

I found out an interesting little nugget of information about Adwords the other day. Your placement ranking is based on a quality scoring algorithm, instead of just your bids. Here is the super complex Google algorithim, which has recently been leaked:

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

The world of Search Engine Optimization is about to change, hopefully for the better. Google is working on making a lot of changes to how it ranks web sites, and will be making more open annoucements in the coming months. So, here is what you need to be focusing on, and you need to [...]

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It’s a language with no predefined words, that isn’t capable of doing anything, and has had a huge impact on how various applications work, and I predict will have a huge impact on how programs and web applications are developed in the coming years? “If it doesn’t do anything, [...]

A.K.A. 5 things I wish I knew when I started AthensBarHopper.com

Serialization is a very cool concept in Java, allowing you to save any object that is serializable to a file, and call it back later. This can be useful for a number of reason, perhaps if you want to make a save file for a game, or have a database that you want to access [...]