A few days ago at HighRankings there was a thread asking about AJAX's use to develop websites. I chimed in with my $0.02 only to find that many folks in SEO are, apparently, unfamiliar with the new technolo...
I have some affiliate sites and recently received two messages from site visitors who were interested in making a purchase but could not figure out how to click through to the purchase page. I chalked the first one up to some cranky person who didn't know how to run a br...
Phillip Lenssen's post on applying lessons from Scott Ginsberg's The Power of Approachability is excellent re...
Irishwonder pointed me to his blog post on the subject of readability indices. He's referencing a nifty little tool that you can use on your own pages as well as comparing the readability levels of various SEO/M industry blogs (we're ranked 3...
I like the idea behind this button site. From buttons for sushi and coffee to wishlists, geographies and politics, they've got a very wide selection. Take this concept, apply it to other graphics, text, content, games, programs, etc. and you've go...
We're in terrible need of a talented web developer for this project I posted about earlier in the week. Thus far, we've had a grand total of two local applicants. It would appear the webdev market is in a state of hgh demand and low supply. If you know someone in Seattle that fits these qualifica...
I was just a few days away from starting my own article that was going to look exactly like this. Damn you Scratch! That's my linkbait... mine!!! Actually, in all seriousness, it's good work. If he hadn't done s...
I like Roman Mittermayr's breakdown of culture2.0 - I've been hoping someone would come along and help define what gives all these recent applications and websites their unique look & feel. Some of his obseravations include: ... Frankly, I also prefer rounded shape...
Ben Hunt, a talented designer and web developer who's done some nice work in the past, has a new, very popular, webdev tutorial site (Web ...
Michael Nguyen, whose Social Patterns blog often has cool stuff, wrote an entry last week that made me wonder about som continuing myths in SEO: Before optimization a site is converting about ...
With all the positive response to the last design extravaganza Matt showed off here at SEOmoz, I thought it might be worthwhile to continue the discussion in a visual manner. Below, I've got some screenshotted sections I took off sites around the web that gave me that warm, fuzzy design-feeling: ...
Just saw this article at Nature about how visitors to a website can form an impression about it in just 50 milliseconds. We all think that content is important but this article argues that ...
I noticed a highly linked-to post on Fizbang web design that covered how to re-touch and update a logo. Interestingly enough, Matt just re-made the logo for SEOmoz (for our new business cards and new website - on its way). Check out a walkthrough: ...
Good thread today at SEW on the subject of the Flash-designer portfolio set of web developers and their feelings on SEO. Glengara starts things off: I started a thread on whether all-Flash sites should be used in the commercial web, (my premise being that using Fla...