SenSEO it`s a Firefox Plugin and it has been integrated with Firebug. SenSEO gives you quick previews on important SEO components from your webpage and optimization tips based on the results.

Installing SenSeo

Installation is quite easy – first install Firebug Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 addon then SenSeo https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9403.Restart Firefox. All set.

How does it work?

Lets take as example our Creative DW menu pack page http://www.extendstudio.com/product/creative-dw-menus-pack.html and test it for the following
keyword: “dreamweaver menu”. SensSEO appears on the Firefox bottom bar.

1.Your title tag

The first thing that SenSEO checks is your title tag that refers to your webpage title and how well the name is related to your specified keywords. For example, our Creative DW menu pack webpage title is: “Dreamweaver Menu extension: Creative DW Menus “and the keywords for our test were “dreamweaver menu”. See the picture below.

The SenSEO Grade for how well the “dreamweaver menu” keywords were integrated in the creative dreamweaver menu pack webpage is B and we got 81 points from 100.

2. Meta-description

The second component that SenSEO is looking for is how well you use the webpage meta-description related to your selected keywords, in our case “dreamweaver menu”. The meta-description on our page  <meta name=”description” content=”Creative DW Menu Pack is a suite of Dreamweaver extensions that seamlessly blends the flexibility of DHTML and the Flash look and feel to create beautifully web site menus.  “/> has more than 150 characters.  And also you should start your meta-description with your keywords. See the picture below.

3. The use of your meta-keywords

You should use a meta-keyword tag just once, or else you could be penalized by a search engine for spamming and your website would not be indexed. You should include less than 10 keywords in the meta-keywords tag, and they should be relevant and also appear in the content of your webpage.  See the picture below.

4. The use of the robots.txt

This text file tells a search engine robot how it should access the content of your website. Usually the default mode is set to allow (read all pages), but you can also set to disallow some folders (for example admin) or even stop some search engines from indexing your site (usually good to have in production). Stop Googlebot example:
# Google
User-agent: googlebot
Allow: /

5. The use of your headline tags

You should include your keywords in the <h1> tag and you should place this <h1> tag before the <h2> and <h3> tag. See the picture below.

6. Your page content

The images should have alternative text that is relevant to your content. Keyword density should be between 5% and 7%. The keyword density refers to the frequency with which a given keyword or phrase appears within the content of your page. If there are 100 words on your page, and the word ‘extension’ appears once, then the keyword density of your page with regards the word extension is 1%. You should offer unique content on your page if you want higher ranking on search engines, make sure that the webpage code, whatever it is (html, css, php, javascript) is valid and you should optimize the load time of the webpage, by compressing images, external css styles and javascripts files. See the picture below.

7. The name of your domain

SenSEO checks how relevant is your domain name to your selected keywords, in our example it checks www.extendstudio.com for relevant use with the “dreamweaver menu” keywords. That’s why is important to name the files with relevant keywords (example “dreamweaver-menu.html”) and folders as well. Do not use special characters in your domain name, and do not use underscore to separate words. See the picture below.

8. The path to your webpage

You should keep the path to your webpage short, and do not use dynamic parameters to the path of your webpage, and always use lowercase words in the path. See the picture below.

I especially enjoyed using this plugin for Firefox because you don’t really need to go out and learn SEO – it’s all there: you can check directly inside Firefox the optimization status and it gives you points for each completed step. You can see the complete list of your components and the optimization for the components by pressing the button “Show components”.

What do you think?

So, for now, the safest bet is to still have a decent layout on IE 6, but you will need some workarounds. For example, doing a 1 pixel height line will not work on IE6, although is a quite decent thing to ask. The “background height 1px IE6 bug” says that instead of seeing a 1px line, IE6 will make it the height of the default font. Here is the code I’m talking about:

<div style=”background-color:#F00; width:600px; height:1px;”></div> - you would expect to see a 1pixel red line correct? Well, it does in all browsers except IE6 - here is a link to test it.

The workaround is quite simple: add a &nbsp; inside the DIV tag and “line-height:1px” at the end of the style used for the div (style can be applied on the div either inline, or through a class). Here we go:

<div style=”background-color:#F00; width:600px; height:1px; line-height:1px”>&nbsp;</div>

Enjoy!

So what do you do? You make yourself social and easy to reach and your customers can get in touch with you live: Yahoo Messenger, MSN, Google Talk, Facebook and more. And there’s always that customer that uses a different IM network. New account, new software and new icons on your desktop (I personally find this very annoying because I like to keep my desktop as clean as possible) .

But, time means money isn’t it, so you can’t really spend much on social network checking or chatting with your Web Design clients. Fortunately there are programs that can help you with all these, all in one programs as I like to call them. One of them that I like very much is Digbsy. I’ve been convincing my colleagues at Extend to use it ever since I found it. Seeing that they like it I thought it would also be a good idea to tell more people about it.

One of the most important things that Digsby brings to the table is the multiple account management for IM’s and email accounts. To choose if Digsby connects to that account automatically, you simply select or deselect the checkbox of that account.

Digsby account management for IM networks

You can stay online at the same time on all these accounts and talk with people from all networks. All of them are placed in the same list so you can easily search for contacts.

Another smart feature is to possibility to merge contacts in case you have a person that uses more than one IM network (like myself). This is a very helpful tool to keep your list small and clean.

Digbsy contanct merge feature

From the same account management screen you can create your social networks accounts and connect to all of them in the same time.

Digbsy account manager for social networks

Once connected to your social accounts you can read notifications, post comments, update status and even watch pictures directly on your desktop. This is done through a panel and you never leave the window you we’re currently working on.

Quick comment using Digbsy

Another nice feature is the global status changer. You can easily choose the accounts on which you want to change your status and update them with just one mouse click. Digsby also offers image embedding and tiny url’s.

Easy status set up

I find Digsby to be a very helpful program and it really simplifies things. It keeps the work going and you still get to socialize or communicate easily. (Did I mention that you can write IM’s directly from pop-ups ? .. well that’s one of the other features that you’ll get to discover).

If this sounds well, what would you say about knowing more on the Photoshop creator and how Photoshop was born? Robert Scoble traveled to Industrial Light and Magic to chat with visual effects supervisor John Knoll–who, with his brother Thomas, created Photoshop and did this interview:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iItTsYmy8lQ

Have an excellent end of the year and a great time with the family!

PS: here is the link to see the special pricing.

How to Participate?
Don’t worry we are not gonna give you a lengthy survey’s.
You just need to follow the link and “Join WittySparks at Google Friend Connect“.

I am in the above link/page – what to do now?
Please follow these 2 steps:
1. Please Participate in the POLL which helps WittySparks to grow further (Left Panel)
2. And Subscribe for our Newsletter (Right Panel) – don’t worry we wont load you with Newsletter emails.

Find out more about the contest and giveaway here.

So what do you win?

Creative DW Rich Media Pack PRO – which allows you to:

• Create Flash banners, Flash slideshows  and any other multimedia presentations directly in Dreamweaver
• Apply Photoshop-like effects to images in Dreamweaver: soft edges, glow effects, 3-D art.
• Create beautiful Vertical menus in Dreamweaver, with liquid layouts, rounded corners and 35 button effect

So how do you win?

1. Become a Fan of TPD on Facebook (if you are already a fan, just ignore this step)
2. And, Share the message below with your friends on Facebook, that’s it…

“I have just entered to WIN 1 of 5 licenses to Creative DW Rich Media Pack PRO. You can win too, just by being on Facebook – http://bit.ly/8MvFBF !”

More on the Facebook giveaway from theprodesigner.com here.

But what has this to do with us? Probably web development software is not the thing you would like to give as a Christmas gift! But hey, our software gives you more time with your family and that’s priceless.

Family time and life balance - I know they are important for you, because our 12+ working hours a day keeps me far from my family as well. That’s why I’m going to offer 60 Dreamweaver Extensions licenses at unbelievable prices for the first 60 buyers and 40 Flash Components for the first 40 buyers - you can get them until November 30th at the latest!

PS: you can check how many Dreamweaver extensions licenses are left here.

PS2: you can check how many Flash Components licenses are left here.

Yours,
Cristian Dorobantescu
Business Development Manager

Creative DW Menus Pack Designer 35% off - 20 licenses

Flash based Drop Down, Vertical and Tabbed menus With Creative DW Menus you can create beautiful menus in Dreamweaver, with liquid layouts, rounded corners and 30 skins and over 35 button effects to choose from. Special price: $99.99 $65

Creative DW Rich Media Pack PRO 27% off - 20 licenses

Creative DW Image Show Pro, Creative DW Image Effects and Creative DW Vertical Menus bundled together With this bundle you can create slideshows, apply Photoshop-like effects to images and generate beautiful Vertical menus in Dreamweaver. Special price: $96.99 $69

FlexiMenus JS for Dreamweaver 50% off - 20 licenses

JavaScript Menus for Dreamweaver Designer Version FlexiMenus JS is a Dreamweaver extension that generates JavaScript menus. Comes with 30 eye-catching transition effects like Fade, Slide, Reveal and 15 menus skins that can be managed from the Dreamweaver interface, with no coding required. Special price (unlimited version): $149.99 $75

Creative TextFX v2 35% off - 20 licenses

Stunning text effects in FLASH This Flash component gives you access to more than 300 predefined text effects that are customizable from the user interface or directly with ActionScript elements - properties, methods, constructor parameters and events. Special price: $74.99 $49

Creative Movie FX v2 35% off - 20 licenses

Effects on animated clips A Flash effects component that offers the ability to apply effects on any movie clips. From the user friendly interface it’s very easy to browse the over 280 predefined effects gallery and apply them on the three transition types available (In effects, Out effects, and Wait effects). Special price: $74.99 $49

Read the slideshow tutorial.

Unleash the geek inside and get paid for it:

•    Research and investigate the latest techniques from Flash Actionscript evangelists
•    Get involved in the creation Adobe Flash extensions
•    Develop rich user interfaces and web 2.0 applications with Adobe Flex
•    Coach your colleagues  into using Flash/Flex technologies

Requirements

•    Each of these skills will get you a job here:

• love tinkering with emerging technologies and learn quickly
• experience in client-side development (ActionScript, Flash, HTML/ Javascript)
• OOP and programming algorithms advanced know-how
• good understanding of Flash and XML

•    And these will get you beer from the rest of the team (nice to have):

• experience in creating flash components and tools
• creativity and artistic sense
• some knowledge of server-side scripting (PHP)
• some knowledge of JavaScript
• basic understanding of SQL databases

Location: Bucharest, Romania

To apply send the CVs on hr(at)extendstudio.com