The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a new little tool for webmasters. It’s the W3C Cheatsheet. Though the page is lacking in luster when it comes to description (I had to guess what to do when first using it), it packs a fully loaded archive of all your HTML and CSS element attributes.

To use the tool you simply type in the HTML element you want to know more about, and W3C delivers all of the elements attributes. Knowing how to address those attributes is up to you, but I’m guessing will come in very handy for many of us.

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Recently asked on how much it costs to build a 75 page website on what I will call Subject A, I thought this might be a good time to explain a way to calculate this. Possibly even, on how not to calculate this.

I get this question repeatedly, “How much does it cost to build a basic website?” My answer? It’s $10 plus my hourly rate if you want anything extra on the site. Example of $10 website without extras. Anyone want one?

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Two months ago I added the Tweetmeme button to my blog. Two weeks after that, I wrote about how it appeared to be doubling my Twitter Traffic. In that post I started out by saying that I may be jumping the gun on this subject. Apparently, I did.

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I saw this headline found on Yahoo today, and I can’t help but saying…Duh. Most kids don’t like to read. The article, “Is Blogging a Slog? Some Young People Think So” was about how researchers found out that young people don’t like to read long blogs or articles anymore. Like they ever did. Comically written in a nearly 1,000 word article, I guess the young people today will not be reading it.

To ensure that this post is short enough for everyone to read, I leave you this picture to do the talking.

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Whether you have a new website or old, taking inventory of all of your content is an important step for ensuring easy navigation. Something I have repeated many times to clients, your website is a reflection of your planning. The clarity of the reflection largely depends on how you organize your content. Poor organization, often equals poor reflection.

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Bam! January gone. How the heck did that happen? Here are the top posts and pages viewed on Best Web Image for the month of January, 2010, a month now forever gone.

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Are you using Gravatar? I know some of the regulars to BWI are not. What is Gravatar? I’ve included a video at the bottom of this post to help explain.

A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar. Confused yet? It’s the picture of yourself when you comment on this blog. Don’t see a picture of yourself?  That is because you don’t have a gravatar.

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Two weeks ago I wrote about how Google is slowly releasing annotations for their Google Analytics. Some of my sites had it, and some did not. Well, it appears all of them have it now. Checking Google’s Analytic blog, I saw no mention of it finalizing it’s release.

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One of my favorite online tools I like to use is SEOCentro’s Meta Tag Analyzer. Simply type in your page URL, enter the captcha, and whamo, a ton of information.

The tool starts off by giving some basic heading status information, and also includes Google’ PageRank. It then lists all of the meta tags used, followed up by their score. They give a numeric score, 100 being best, for each tag based on several factors. I pride myself on achieving 100% for all of them. It’s actually an excellent tool for developing a great meta description tag.

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Does your website have a primary call to action? I hope so. Getting your website to “do something” should be a goal for all website owners. Getting new visitors to see your call to action, or to even act on that call to action though, is the real trick to having a successful website.

You’re Paying for that Call to Action More than Once!

Assuming you have a call to action on your website, are you tracking how often it gets clicked? A call to action on your website should be managed as if you were paying for every impression of it being there. You are after all,  paying for it in several different ways.

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