My First Website and What You Can Learn From It

I happened to have reason to want one of the images on it, and I pulled up the very first webpage that I ever built today...Boy have I learned a lot about website design, SEO, etc since I first built that page!

I'm almost too embarrassed about it to show you, but since I see my clients' sites day in and day out, I suppose it's only fair...So here it is: My very first website and please keep in mind when you look at it, that I was probably only 19 or so when I built it, and I added the last picture to it before I came to work for Z57.

So don't laugh too much...

I'm exposing my past website blunder because it is a perfect example of what NOT do when designing a web page. If you don't know what I mean, check out The Top Ten Worst Website Mistakes that I posted on my site a while back, for a refresher in the basics of good design.

Incidentally, I pretty much just keep that old site around as a reminder of what I have done, and where I've gone from there.

Blogging and SEO

This is just a quick post because it's about 4:00 am and I'm still awake reading about Search Engines and SEO.

I used a tool from yahoo to check how many links I currently had to my website KimMorlan.com and I was surprised at how many of them had come from my blog. Why am I telling you this? Because I really haven't been actively linking to pages on my website, yet my blog of course is a great source for links to my site.

You should also read this article that explains the differences between the various Search Engines. It's really good. Here's another page he's written, with a section (you have to scroll down) called General Theory on SEO and the Web.

Ok well it's now approaching dawn...I think it's time for bed...