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If you’re not a web designer, chances are that you’ve never actually Googled “web design inurl:blog” and looked at the results. Try it. No, seriously, don’t try it. I’ll show you what you get: You get a list of results, the majority of which are themselves lists of results. Now, this search is actually a [...]
I don’t like to get political online; it’s not really something that I’m comfortable with. But I saw what happened on the FCC website today, and I had to say something. After a comment period that had to be extended because of the sheer volume of public outcry against the proposed plan, the FCC enacted [...]
In all of my scanning Al Gore’s tubes for useful information about what I do on a daily basis, every once in a while I come across something that shocks me. No, not like politicians shock me or like XKCD shocks me, but that shock me in that it makes me seriously wonder what other [...]
So I wrote a blog post about SEO and bad writing a few days ago, and I was re-reading it this morning when I noticed a pattern. And it immediately occurred to me that this pattern isn’t new — it’s a known, well-defined phenomenon. Someone comes up with a clever way of gaining an SEO [...]
So I was listening to the radio, and on comes this odd song by Busta Rhymes and Eminem called “Calm Down.” I can’t claim to remember much of it — it was long, and Busta was doing his Busta thing with the rapping so fast you can only pick out every second or third phrase [...]
OK, we get it. Getting your site ranked is really important to your business, and you’ll do almost anything to make it happen. The problem is that you’re not an optimizer — you’re a business owner, and you don’t know the SEO world like an optimizer does. Your information is probably at least a couple [...]
So I was doing my normal reading of the web’s latest interesting web design advice and SEO news, and suddenly, a thought struck me: how much of what we’re reading today is actually new? On the one hand, there’s “nothing new under the sun” (though I’m pretty sure whoever said that hadn’t ever hear of [...]
Web design is a massively complex undertaking. Just on the most basic level, your job as a web designer is to take a set of goals, abstract from them a direction, conceptualize a framework that will actualize that direction, design a system of information that will lead people down the path that direction points in, [...]
So I was on an obscure website that I got to by using Million Short, the search engine that takes you straight to the ‘deep web’, and I was baffled when I arrived on the site to notice that I had apparently already clicked on all of the outgoing links from that page. Of course, [...]
The Web is full of would-be bloggers that really want to make it in the world. They could potentially all do it, but a great many of them are going to screw it up — and a large portion of that great many will do it using one of these tried-and-true techniques: Posting Irrelevancies Just [...]