By: Rand Fishkin
What Does Loss of Sanity Mean for a Site's Design?
DesignAt Cre8asite forums, one of the most entertaining and infuriating threads in a long time comes from user thesarge and his site review. Sarge had an ...
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By: Rand Fishkin
Debating the Value of Outbound Links
DesignOver at Sitepoint forums, Aspen (a very well-respected and knowledgable member of their community) disagrees with me on whether outbound links on a web page can affect your rankings at the search engines. My views: "I believe that search...
By: Rand Fishkin
The Importance of an About Page
DesignKim's got a terrific thread going at Cre8asite on the importance of "about us" or "about me" pages. She starts by pointing to Andy Beal's ...
By: EGOL
Throwing Out the Book on SEO!
DesignOK... It's a new day in my office. I am changing my focus away from the standard SEO optimizing stuff and instead putting my focus where it really belongs - getting site visitors to embrace my site. Let's call this SEO for SITE VISITOR ACTIONS. I think that the search engine...
By: Rand Fishkin
Design Principles
DesignReturn to the roots of design for a moment and remember that the art of our development is inherently tied to specific principles that have been forged over centuries of observation and creation. Digital Web Magazine has an ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Oodles of Favicons
DesignAlthough they don't get much attention, to the graphically and web adept, favicons are a source of great pride and study. These little 16-pixel graphics are an endless source of optimization and promotion for an entire community of designers, as illustrated by the Delta Tango Bravo blog entr...
By: Rand Fishkin
That's a Good Trick
DesignFryman over at Digitalpoint made a reference to DNForum, which I had never heard of before. Apparently, it's a community of domain name buyers and sellers and is fairly large and well respected. However, today I'm commenting on their excellent trick with ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Create Logos on the Fly
DesignAlthough logo design is one of my banes, people still occassionally request that we do it. Lucky for us, helpful sites like LogoYes are great for providing a complete logo at a low, low price, or providing inspiration, if nothing ...
By: Rand Fishkin
An Old Debate Made New; Dashes & Underscores
DesignOver at Cre8asite forums, fast-pack asks the typical question of whether underscores (_) or dashes (-) make a big difference in SEO. Bill Slawski diverges from the pack to answer with some great advice about the usability of file names and later walks us through a Google patent application from Dec. of 2003. The patent, ...
By: Rand Fishkin
How Effective are Your Title Tags?
DesignToday marks a breakthrough for SEOmoz - a contribution to the blog from someone other than myself. I'm thrilled to say it's EGOL of SEOChat who's written this great littl...
By: Rand Fishkin
167 Days to Christmas & 37 Signals has Advice
Design37 Signals has a list of holiday "to-do's" on your e-commerce website to prepare it for the holiday shopping season. Since Christmas often accounts for up to 40% of a store's entire yearly profits, there's no doubt ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Enticing Experimental Design
DesignSince it's Friday, I think we all deserve a break from the standard usability and practical applications of web design to explore something totally unique and uncommon. Yugo Nakamura is just the man to help us out with that, he's got: ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Web Color Schemes
DesignIn the world of web design, one of the most frustrating topics I butt my head up against is color scheme. I search and search the color wheel in Photoshop and scour the web to help inspire me on themes that will work for a client or a site. Luckily, I now have some help, and ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Don't Click It
DesignAlex Frank, a German web designer has taken on the unique challenge of re-building the interface of the web, by removing the mouse click from his users' repertoire of interactive tasks. His example site for this surprisingly innovative project is don'tclic...