Mitch Keeler

Look at the pretty button, the shiny red button! Oh no, wait. Your button isn’t red. Your button isn’t even shiny! It is rather dull these days because you (like many others) have forgotten about styling up your buttons to get your Web site interface a smooth new look. Buttons are the last thing people [...]

Now for several months I have seen news stories and links come up with folks giving you cookie hacks or Javascript tricks so you can try out some of these new was of surfing and searching that Google is experimenting with. Well now you don’t have to worry about setting everything up just right. Google [...]

I have been a fan of Google Analytics for some time now. With the previous look and style it gave to everything, the interface was rather confusing if you didn’t have a college degree in “graphology.” Now though, it looks like it has pushed some of the more confusing features to the back of the [...]

Everybody and their grandmother produces an easy to use subscription buttons so you can quickly add a Web site’s content to your iGoogle Web page or your My Yahoo! Homepage. When do you know that you are offering your readers or visitors too many options though?
Personally I don’t like seeing 200 different ways I can [...]

The folks over at WordPress have released yet another update to their fabulous product. WordPress is quickly becoming better than just a blog engine - it is a content management system many are turning to. Even though many people would consider it a king of the mountain right now it is still delivering more than [...]

When it comes to creating a logo for your new Web site or project, you can never be too careful. Some people just slap out a design and call it a day. Others work for hours and hours getting it perfect before the public gets to see it. Which is the better method to use? [...]

Need to find yourself some of those 80 pixel by 15 pixel graphics you keep seeing all over the Web? Maybe you want to add some to your side bar. Maybe you just want a better way of linking back to some of your favorite Web sites. No matter what your button [...]

Need yourself a new WordPress stats solution? Why not just use the same stats that the WordPress.com folks have been getting for some time now? Yes, there has now been a WordPress plugin released that will allow you to use that stats engine for your own hosted installation of WordPress.
What is the name? Automattic Stats. What [...]

What will happen to your Web site after you meet your maker, bite the dust, and, as the famous Monty Python dead parrot sketch says, “This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be!” I think this is something everybody should consider but nearly nobody does. I don’t even have any plans myself on [...]

The secret to backing up is to find a system that works for you and not against you. Yes, I don’t mean to toss a wrench into anybody’s day, but you must back up your Web site as well. Backing up is never a fun thing to do — but with the recent news last [...]

I know a lot of designers out there that don’t like having to make up copy when they are working on a layout. They like to fill it in with random text that doesn’t make sense — or even Latin. Of course in my opinion, Latin is a bunch of random text that doesn’t make [...]

Looking for a good way of sprucing up your Web site’s design a little bit? Adding or changing the fonts you use for your graphics can make a dull Web site look fantastic with just a few edits here and there. Now I bet your next questions is going to be, “Where can somebody like [...]

Do you need a neat-looking CSS menu, but you do not feel like going through all the hard work of creating it yourself? Have no fear, Mitch is here with a solution. The CSS Menu Generator takes all the hard work out of the equation and allows you to focus more on the look and [...]

Looks like my entry about navigation bar preference –on the left of your Web site or the right — has started up a little bit of a debate. I love to see it because hey, I am not the official rulemaker of menu making. I like seeing both sides of view.
Here is what John [...]

We all want the best content the Web can deliver but we are not all the greatest writers in the world. Now don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t take a team of Stephen Kings to deliver great content, but it wouldn’t hurt. So should you hire a copywriter to rewrite some of your Web pages [...]

I got an e-mail last week from a Lockergnome reader who wanted me to tackle the debate on which side a menu should be on when designing a Web site layout. Sue writes:
I am working on a Web site for my sister and I have seen some layouts with navigation links on the left and [...]

When it comes to developing content online, there is no easy way out. Good content always rises to the top, but how do you figure out what to talk about? Any content or article driven Web site has run into this problem. You are stuck at a brick wall and you can come up with [...]

Come on, you know you have said to yourself at least once, “It sure would be nice to have a cult following of MySpace users.” If you haven’t, then why not? I take MySpace as an example — really, the advice I am about to share with you could be used with any number of [...]

Want to build your own WordPress theme but don’t know how or where to get started? Well I might have stumbled upon the resource you have been searching for. The WordPress Theme Generator takes the cake for being one of the best WYSIWYG tools I have found online. I love it!
What does it do? It [...]

When it comes to navigation for a Web site, depending on the size of the Web site in question you might have to do a lot of planning. It would be nearly impossible to have every page out there link to every other page you host. So where do you draw the line and how [...]