There comes a time when anyone, maybe you or me, will want to create a fantastic project. You might have a few ideas and the concept of the project, but you don’t know exactly where its going or what is going on because you didn’t plan or organize that project.

Why Humans Plan Stuff?

We plan things because we want things to be perfect, even though no one is perfect we want things to be as perfect as they can get regardless of the flaws or what we have to do to get to that stage. For example take Microsoft and Windows Vista. They wanted to be perfect yet they released to early and has the most bugs, thats why I stick with windows xp :).

Why do I plan things?

Great question, I plan things because I hate being in the position where I have a feeling I won’t finish the project it self. It’s bad practice to make up ideas as you code because anyone can do that. Doesn’t mean you’ll come out a success, then again there are some people who can do that and develop great software.

So I’ve been writing a series of articles related to this topic. It’s called “Long Term Project Planning” (Part 2 releasing today). It’ll get you started on your Journey to planning a great and successful project for the future.

Web Development and Meta Tags

I know people are tired of hearing these SEO tips and all, but this is useful and I’m pretty sure no one explains how to use the description in this way.

Maximum Google Meta Tag Description Characters

Yes thats right, Google has a maximum amount of characters that it displays on the search index. I been doing some studying and Google’s max characters is around 154-157. Even though this is Google’s maximum length, this will still be effective in other search engines also.

Effective Meta Tag Description

In order to have a pretty effective description you must use 2-3 of your most used keywords in your description at least twice, any more or any less will fail to get you high SERPS. Then again you got to make sure to get an effective description in under 157 characters, use as many characters as possible, but try to keep it to the maximum.

Meta Tag Description Dont’s

Do not use extra characters such as “….” or multiple spaces because it can hurt your ranking, because you lose those extra characters that you could have used to describe your website or an extra keyword that you could have used.

Are you Victim of Bad Project Planning?

Well we all are, I once heard from a wise man, “You must get worse, before you get better.” Well this is completely true, in order for any web developer to succeed in this life you must fall off that cliff before you climb back up it. In my day I came to a point where I couldn’t complete projects the way I wanted to, either I had a client or I didn’t have enough time to finish what I wanted to be done. So I came up with a long term process to help web developers complete just about any project.
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