The world of blogging and content generation these days has a lot of different important aspects when it comes to getting desired traffic numbers and patterns. And at the core of that is the concept of search engine optimization, or SEO. Unless people are following direct links to your content, the only way they’ll find […]
Tips For Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Your SEO Marketing
When you use SEO for your marketing plan it’s because you want to increase your sales and the amount of people that visit your website. You want your business to be found on the top of the front page of all of the search engines. That means putting in keywords, and time, to make your […]
The list article backlash
It’s begun. Actually, since list-style blog posts on design trends and other pretty things have been popular for a few years now, I’m sure the backlash has been happening for a while. Now, it does make sense to organize your a complex article into easily digestible chunks, especially in a not exactly 100% comfortable to […]
rel, rev, and HTML5
Here’s the conclusion that all the web gurus seem to have drawn over the past months: HTML5 is the future, and that future is slowly creeping into our midst. This article by Dave Shea is the latest proof of that. Then there are inspiration galleries and blogs dedicated to the use of HTML5 for markup, […]
6 Important Considerations in Choosing a Good Domain Name
When setting up your website one of the most important aspects will be to choose a domain name. It’s that domain name that will stick with you for the lifetime of your site. You can change the template, change the purpose of the site, fire a designer, hire a designer, but you just cannot change […]
Long live View Source!
According to Ajaxian, the beloved tradition of learning by peeking at someone else’s source code is on the brink of extinction. Because Google is rewarding websites that load faster, people will stop at nothing to look good in the big G’s eyes, including code compression and more notably, obfuscation. This renders View Source useless. While […]
XKCD says goodbye Geocities, hello ’90s web design
To commemorate the closing of internet dinosaur and free web hosting service Geocities today, October 26, geeky web comic XKCD “redesigned” its site to match the horrible aesthetic (or lack thereof) rampant during the ’90s. Low-fi images (including the requisite “under construction” sign), web-safe colors, <table>s, <blink>, <marquee>, a hit counter, and a “best viewed […]
Short URLs, WebKit’s CSS animations & scrollbars, DiggBars: everything old is new (and hip?) again
Everything old seems to be new (and hip?) again. And I’m not too sure I’m happy about it. Short URLs Shorter URLs are all the rage these days because of Twitter and its 140-character limit. If you’re one of the top sites on the web is practically mandatory for you to roll out your own […]
Markup debates: rank priorities, code accordingly
Round one: logo vs. title inside <h1> I like that The h1 Debate was created to tackle a very specific issue in HTML that affects standardistas and search marketers alike. It asks the question what should go inside an <h1> tag, a logo or page name?, then you cast a vote by tweeting. I expect […]