When the the king of search looks to optimize its own content for search results, you know it’s not by going out and buying back links. They get those free of charge by their millions of users who love their resources. So what can Google do to improve their own rankings? They optimize their code on-site.

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Here is an easy example on why you should use more than one type of web browser for testing your site. A special thank you goes to Premium Concert Tickets for allowing me to use one of their pages as an example: Michael Buble Tickets.

The IE Version

Still building websites in IE? There is nothing wrong with that. Still building website in IE, and not testing it with another type like Firefox? Crazy! I test intranet sites that I make for only IE6 users with other types of browsers. I have to, if I want high quality. Besides, there is something wrong with IE.

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been working with WordPress for many, many years, and have greatly admired people who can create wonderful WordPress themes. The most I can do is log into the WordPress admin area and scroll through the different available themes, download one and click “activate”. Badda Bing. Job done. But the free themes always seemed to require customization which was just beyond my simplistic editing (hacking) know-how. I’ve always wondered how the heck people design wonderful-looking themes… are they graphic-design geniuses, or what?

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For those of you that need a minimum width set for whatever reason, most browsers understand the style of “min-width:1024px”. In this case, 1024 would be how wide you need it.

Typically, this min-width style is used to prevent inline DIV tags from wrapping. Min-width works great for most modern browsers, but the notorious IE6 refuses to play ball. It’s also still popularly used by large corporations.

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Here are the top posts and pages viewed on Best Web Image for the month of February, 2010. My personal favorite is: Reasons Why Validating HTML is Important to You. It’s a three part post that really drives the point on why you should validate your HTML.

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Quick! What is the hexadecimal color of my logo? Don’t know? Would you need to look in my CSS maybe? Would you try loading my logo into Photoshop and see? Too slow. Those of you with ColorZilla know.

The easiest way to do it, if you use Firefox, is to install the add-on ColorZilla.

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Are you suffering from Giant Image Syndrome? The common symptoms are: squished content, wrapped content, horizontal scrolling, super long lines of text, and basic site destruction.

Right now I am working for a Fortune 100 company that has a ton of intranet sites. The IT department was nice enough to create a default template so that anyone can build a site. They even allow them to use their own creativity, by not specifying a style guide. Oops.

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For those of using the TweetMeme plugin for WordPress, they just updated it. For those of you that have never used the plugin, it allows Twitter users to tweet your post by simply clicking the button. Mine is at the bottom of this post on the left.

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A short while back I started a poll asking if you prefer blogs with just one author or more than one. Though I didn’t get a lot of votes, the answer was pretty clear. One guy (me) is not enough.

So…this post is for those of you that like to build websites, and would like to share a few ideas of your own.

Anyone care to be a guest blogger on BWI? If so, let me know.

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Go ahead, call me the Justify Cop. I haven’t been pointing fingers too much lately about the use of justify, but after a series of events that have taken place with my work, I think I have the perfect excuse. For this post thank you goes to the developers of San Antonio Air Conditioning Service. They occasionally hire me to review their sites, and were nice enough to let me allow to use this new site as an example.

Besides learning when or when not to justifying text, there is something else that this site needs to justify. It’s the content.

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