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Well if you are willing to do your own research it should be pretty easy to SEO your meta tags. However, realize that today's SEO is a lot more to do with relevancy of content than keywords and meta tags. However, with that said it is still worth making sure your meta tags are in good shape. If you want to pay a professional service it can cost you anywhere from $30-$250+. Just depends on exactly what you want and who you go through.

Well you can CHMOD through your file manager in most cases or through SSH/Telnet or even your FTP program. Here is a tutorial using an FTP program: http://www.phpjunkyard.com/tutorials/ftp-chmod-tutorial.php Hope that helps!

Figure out the actual height you need and set it that way.

No you can still achieve the result you want but through the div tags themselves. I believe he is saying display:table is not supported by IE.

You do this by using CSS <div> tags. It actually doesn't take a lot to teach yourself the basic CSS layout. I would recommend doing a google search for CSS tutorials or check http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp for some free CSS lessons. Alternatively you can also google CSS two column layout. There are a lot of free building blocks out there for you. I would still recommend taking the time to learn basic XHTML & CSS if you plan on designing your blog yourself though.

You should be able to remove public access by setting the proper CHMOD settings on the folder and files within.

When I view your source code it still shows: <title>Yankeebook.com</title> I believe this is a Wordpress ran site correct? If so the title tag will be generated dynamically by Wordpress. You need to go into your admin panel and set the title to what you want it as.

The country was just an example of using Good Defaults. There are probably better ways you can get the country like you said, but the design pattern is still essential to UCD. I was just trying to explain the proper application of using "selected."

It basically sets the default option that will be selected. This is becoming more and more important for User Centered Design. There is a UCD design pattern called "Good Defaults." The pattern basically calls for us designers to consider what the best defaults are as we design a form from the user's viewpoint. For example if the drop down was asking the person to select which country they were from and you knew that 90% of your customer base lived in the United States then you would want to set United States as your default option.

You definitely should use CSS for this. Much cleaner and promotes good code.

Hey everyone, I used to browse this site back about 4 or 5 years ago. I had to leave the industry for a few years but now I am back at Web Development & Design. I'm currently working on my BS in the subject. In about 3 months I will be starting the programming courses and I am trying to get a jump start on PHP w/ MySQL design. So far I'm working through all the data structure types and getting ready to jump into control structures. Anyway, looking forward to learning a lot here and I'm sure I'll be asking for a lot of help along the way as I work on projects in the near future. See you all around the forums.