On December the 31st we saw the last Toolbar PR update of 2008, this update happens each quarter and at SJL Web Design we are always fascinated by the websites which manage to achieve the maximum of 10. Even though the amount of PR 10 sites has been consistently falling over the last few updates, [...]

There’s a little coding language any serious web designer can’t live without… CSS. Thats right Cascading Style Sheets or CSS have altered the world of web design and SEO. Before CSS became mainstream, many sites were built using tables and yes, this is exactly what it sounds like. Designers would dump the content of your [...]

Today is expected to be the busiest day of online shopping this year, it is estimated that over ¬£320 million will be spent in online shops. As the economy grinds to a stop, banks are failing and we are apparently facing the worst recession since the 30′s, it appears that people are still spending… just [...]

You may have noticed the ‘u comment, I follow” badge in the sidebar, that’s right SJL have joined the do follow movement inspired by Randa Clay and have removed the ‘no follow’ attribute from the SJL blog. The ‘no follow’ tag was created by Google as a way of cutting down on comment spam, it [...]

Today SJL Web Design reached page three for the incredibly competitive phrase ‘Web Design’ after only being established for 3 months, this is a momentous achievement. The phrase ‘web design’ brings back almost 300 million web pages and is searched 2,250,000 times on average each month. We pin point this quick success to using purely [...]

Directory submissions can be a great way to build high quality links for your website and help give it a boost in the search engines. So with so many directory submission sites and software all over the web offering for example, 10, 000 + directory submissions for $10 you would be mad to miss out? [...]