http://www.sitecheck.be Get healthy advice on how to improve your web site and make money with it Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:30:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.sitecheck.be/general/essential-mac-software/ http://www.sitecheck.be/general/essential-mac-software/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:04:07 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/?p=128 Here is a brief overview of the software which should come in handy for most Mac users. These programs increase your productivity and enhance the basic Mac OS X system to provide more features. ]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/general/essential-mac-software/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/speed-up-your-site-using-a-cdn/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/speed-up-your-site-using-a-cdn/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:05:51 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/?p=80 When you run a popular web site, you should think about how to increase the speed to deliver the content to your readers. This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDN) come in. These systems deliver the content from the nearest server, thus reducing the latency to retrieve additional HTTP objects. For the past month, we’ve [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/speed-up-your-site-using-a-cdn/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/optimizing-web-page-loading-times/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/optimizing-web-page-loading-times/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:57 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/?p=62 So, you’ve got a web site and wonder how you can improve the load times of your web pages. In recent weeks, we’ve played around with a variety of techniques to optimize web pages for our clients and our own projects. First, you should run a few analysis on your web page to make sure [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/optimizing-web-page-loading-times/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/general/adsl-speedtest/ http://www.sitecheck.be/general/adsl-speedtest/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:57:58 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/?p=57 Run this speed test to find out how fast your Internet connection is...]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/general/adsl-speedtest/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/wordpress-theme-generator/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/wordpress-theme-generator/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:56:25 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/wordpress-theme-generator/ The WordPress Theme Generator allows you to quickly generate a new theme for your WordPress blog. It creates XHTML compliant files (css/php) for your site. It’s worth checking out if you need a new design for your site.]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/wordpress-theme-generator/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/free-captcha-for-your-site/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/free-captcha-for-your-site/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:17:16 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/free-captcha-for-your-site/ Comment spam, guestbook spam, e-mail spam is getting on my nerves. I’m always looking out for the next best thing to protect my web sites from any spam messages. Usually, I protect my web forms using a Captcha (a graphical security code) which needs to be resolved by a real user in order to use [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/free-captcha-for-your-site/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/does-your-site-work-in-all-browsers/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/does-your-site-work-in-all-browsers/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:56:39 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/does-your-site-work-in-all-browsers/ A web site that is being launched should be optimized for all browsers. A visitor to your site won’t change their computer system (screen resolution, browser version,…) in order to see your site. Your visitor is likely to turn away quickly and go to another source for information because there are so many sites on [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/does-your-site-work-in-all-browsers/feed/ 1 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/analyzing-your-web-traffic/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/analyzing-your-web-traffic/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:55:56 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/analyzing-your-web-traffic/ If you want to know who’s visiting your web site and which pages they look at, then you should start looking at your log files or use some of the free visitor tracking services mentioned in this article. Now that you’ve optimized your site and started the online promotion work, it’s time to measure the [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/analyzing-your-web-traffic/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-promote-a-site/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-promote-a-site/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:14:55 +0000 Joe Savelberg http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-promote-a-site/ You’ve got a web site but nobody cares. Nobody knows where your site is and what’s you’ve got to offer. It’s about time to start promoting your content to the world. I’ll cover a few basic tactics in this article. After the optimization of the site (see my previous article), it’s time to promote it [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-promote-a-site/feed/ 0 http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-optimize-a-site/ http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-optimize-a-site/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:58:50 +0000 Joe Savelberg /tips/how-to-optimize-a-site/ Optimizing a web site for faster load times, reducing coding errors and providing a better experience for users and search engines alike During the planning phase of a site, many people put too much stuff on their home page, thinking that everything is equally important. However this increases loading times and spoils the user experience. [...]]]> http://www.sitecheck.be/tips/how-to-optimize-a-site/feed/ 0