Make Joomla Article Titles H1 and H2 Tags for SEO

By Decisive Design | January 3, 2012 |

The article titles on your Joomla website are probably not optimized to their full potential. More specifically, they aren’t H1 tags on the article pages and H2 tags on the category, section, and home pages. They also don’t have title attributes in the href links on the category, section and home pages. These header tags…

CSS3 Text Shadows

By Decisive Design | August 22, 2011 |

Text Shadow… pretty! OK, that was a little extreme. But seriously, text shadow can be sexy, and it’s really easy. So stop using images for text in your banners and call-to-actions! The CSS3 text-shadow property shouldn’t be overused, but it allows web designers and developers an excellent alternative to using text, with shadows, as images…

Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance

By Decisive Design | August 22, 2011 |

Lets take a few minutes and discuss what the Site Performance section of Google Webmaster Tools is all about and whether or not we should be putting any stock into its data.

Adding Your Website to Google Webmaster Tools

By Decisive Design | May 26, 2010 |

If you’ve landed on this article, chances are you heard about Google Webmaster Tools and are either looking for more information or wanting to utilize (“install”) it for your site. No problem – it’s really pretty easy, and you’ll be up and running in no time if you follow these simple steps.

Using the Photoshop Pen Tool to create a Selection & Remove a Background

By Decisive Design | May 5, 2010 |

In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate a great way to create a selection around an object to remove backgrounds, other objects, etc using the Photoshop Pen Tool. I remember when I was new to Photoshop, selections and cropping, and then I remember how cool it was when I learned the Pen Tool and Quick Mask. I’m…

Backup Your Databases!

By Decisive Design | April 7, 2010 |

This guide refers to phpMyAdmin based databases that are commonly the back end for popular content management systems (CMS) like WordPress and Joomla Yes, it happened to me. So… I was clearing out my web server files, databases, etc, to make room for the new website coming online, and I forgot to make a copy…