As the old saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words." This is particularly true when it comes to web design projects. Web surfers have extremely short attention spans and a few well-chosen and properly optimized images can do wonders in terms of drawing visitors to your web site and capturing their attention once they are there.

Here are 4 Tips to Leverage Images for Better Web Design Results:

Well not a lot new for this past week. I have been reading and researching a lot about blog hackers this past week. I didn't know about some of the ways they can get into your blog.

I also thought that you would know if your blog had been hacked. But that is not necessarily true. Sometimes they just get in and add a lot of keywords and such to your footer or other parts of your blog and you never know it unless you have some means of detecting their presence. I have bought some software to make my blogs less prone to hacker getting in. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I will in the next few days.