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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 [...]
Wireframing is a vital part of web design that helps everyone stay on the same page. They’re the blueprint around which the webpage is designed, connecting the underlying architecture to the information presented to the visual design. A wireframe is a visual representation of the interface that explains a site’s intended: Structure: How the pieces [...]
Happy Independence Day, Americans! On Monday I wrote a post about web design and SEO working together, and I mentioned universal navigation as one of the important elements where the two areas of endeavor intersect. As I was wondering what I was going to blog about, I got an email asking me if I could [...]
So I have this book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and it’s all about the insights into wealth that the author (Robert Kiyosaki) received by growing up with two fathers, one on each side of the income spectrum. One of the core insights can be summed up thusly: ‘Poor people work for money, rich people [...]
At its core, web design is about taking what is essentially bland, context-free information and elevating into a form that is as intuitively usable as it is aesthetically pleasant. It’s about making modern communication easy, in much the same way that good handwriting was the key to the scribes of the Dark Ages and the [...]
I watched an interesting video on SearchEngineJournal this morning, and it got me thinking. The guy from SEJ was talking to the head of eBay’s SEO team, and the eBay guy talked a bit about how they’re currently quite focused on user experience — particularly, on CTR: Click-through rate. This got me thinking that there’s [...]
Since the advent of Google’s Authorship Markup, Internet marketing has become significantly more dependent on something that it lacked for about a decade: credibility. Now, Google has recently backed off a little bit on that by removing the author photograph and the ‘In X circles’ from their listings — but they still use authorship markup [...]