Web Design

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design, interface design, authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimisation.

Search Engine Optimisation for Title Tag & How it works & How it is crawled by Google, A lesson learned from my own portfolio website

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Here is what I learned from Google’s Web Crawling algorithm over the years,

 
For last three to two years I was using just ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage i.e ‘Page Name | Website Name’. Nothing more than that to explain the people to give them full insight of website by just looking at title on google’s search result’s page.

 
But for last few days I was getting this result when I searched my name on Google, Yes I was listed first when I searched for name i.e mandar apte,

 
But result was something like this, ‘Mandar Apte: Design Portfolio’ instead my curated title ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’. It seems google altered my website homepage’s title tag on their search results. I was amassed why should this happen, then I contacted google support for the same…

 
mandar-apte-search-results-before

 
& I got this answer from them…

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How to link Google AdWords & Google Analytics Account

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I am tracking my website through Google Analytics all way long & I was just wanted to utilise Google AdWords possibilities…

 
Google AdWords KeyWords Tool is best way to learn & do Search Engine Optimisation for your website

 
So today itself I just Linked my both accounts together & here is way how to link Google Analytics & Google Adwords Accounts

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Securing WordPress Installation & Boosting WordPress Website Performance with Easy .htaccess Code Settings or hacks (Note: This are the setting – hacks that I deployed on my website too)

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I am writing it down to help you secure your website & boost your WordPress website performance with this simple .htaccess hacks

 
Implement or copy pate this code in .htaccess in your root of WordPress installation to secure wp-include only files

# Block the include-only files.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wp-admin/includes/ - [F,L]
RewriteRule !^wp-includes/ - [S=3]
# RewriteRule ^wp-includes/[^/]+\.php$ - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+\.php - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^wp-includes/theme-compat/ - [F,L]

 
Implement or copy pate this code in .htaccess in your root of WordPress installation to limit direct access to wp-comments-post to limit spamming

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How Odd Numbers are out & Even Numbers are in for Web Designer & Icon Designer or even for any designer

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While I was designing Icon for my client I realise as it is true in website design as it is in Icon Design you can work in odd numbers,

 
When you have even numbers like 14px Square or 16px Square you can easily fit a round box inside it but in 15px Square Icon it’s really hard to manage…

 
Here is The example…

 
Odd Pixels with 15px by 15px

 
15pxicon

 
Even Numbers of Pixels:

 
10px by 10px, with 1px of rounded corners it fails to generate illusion of circular when viewed at actual size or at maximum size

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Updates about Online Social Networking Plugins Integration on Mandar Apte Website

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I have removed all Social Network integration from my website as I found out that website was taking too much time to load & react to user’s interactions.

 
I have removed Shared button & Widgets of respective websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus from my website as this share plugins & widgets were utilising more bandwidth of my server taking more pressure on server’s processor threads & even found out my self that every webpage was taking 3 or more seconds to load which I don’t permit to happen with my website. (more…)

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Useful Free Services for Web Designers

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This is real useful service for Web Designers who is moving his or her server to new location or moving hosting service from one service provider to another.

 
Service’s Name is ‘Open DNS’

 
It’s related to DNS (Domain Name System)

 
As WikiPedia Explains what is DNS:

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities.

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Design Schools or Design Institutes in India

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India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program.

 
For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then 2 years of Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) then only you can apply to Art Institutes like Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art & Sir J. J. School of Art for graduation in Art.
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Why we don’t do Pilot Projects or so called Free Mockup Designs? & Why Pilot Projects & Free Mockup design doesn’t work?

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Few collection of thoughts from my experience of design freelancing & pursuing design processes & doing design oriented business for living for last more than 4 years.

 
When somebody asks for Mockup before starting any paid & finalised project,

 
Following situations can be seen & felt by designer

  • Client is unsure about prospect of project
  • Client has unpractical approach towards project
  • Client lack proper investment & money
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