By: Rand Fishkin
Steve Krug's Usability Workshops Touring this Fall
DesignEarly this fall, Steve Krug, author of what is surely my favorite book on web design and usability - Don't Make Me Think - will be touring three cities, offe...
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By: Rand Fishkin
Favicon Generator
DesignA great tool for those in webdev is Chami's favicon generator. If you're not familiar with favicons, they're the little images that are linked to a website in the browser and appear in the address bar in Firefox and the favorit...
By: Rand Fishkin
An Average Conversion Rate
DesignWhile conducting some research, I came across a brilliant website on the specific subject of conversion rates. Conversion Chronicles details a remarkable amount and depth of information on the subject of e-commerce conversi...
By: Rand Fishkin
Why Testing in Multiple Broswers is Critical
DesignSaltmine, a web design firm based here in Seattle, with locations in Portland & London as well, has created one of the worst rollover menus I've ever seen - and these guys are professional web designers. Their la...
By: Rand Fishkin
Design Myths Debunked
DesignAlthough this comes by way of the world of print, it's an excellent resource for those of us thinking about compelling pages & copy for visitors to convert on the web. The article, Debunking Myths, comes fr...
By: Rand Fishkin
Two Good Resources - Info Architecture & Web Design
DesignFellow UW graduate, Heidi Adkinson runs two very relevant websites on the subject of her Master's thesis - e-commerce research. The sites both offer some very good information on the subject of web design and...
By: Rand Fishkin
Web Standards & W3C Guidelines
DesignWeb standards and code validation can often be a boring subject in the SEO and web development world. It's not fun to hack through the W3C's validation complaints about missing alt tags, improperly entered text symbols and incomplete div tags, but it is neccessary....
By: Rand Fishkin
Steve Krug's Advanced Common Sense
DesignOne of the first requirements for anyone considering building or operating a website should be Steve Krug's miraculous book - Don't Make Me Think. This short, 3-hour read has been next to my...
By: Rand Fishkin
The Function of Design & The Influence on Conversion Rates
DesignSEOs are primarily concerned with optimizing a website for rankings in the search engines. Naturally, what follows the flow of traffic is the flow of conversions, sales, or the accomplishment of the desired action on the website. Once a visitor reaches a ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Sitemaps and Spidering
DesignThe great advantage of a sitemap (for SEO purposes) comes from its ability to reduce the number of links that must be followed in order to reach all pages on a site. Sitemaps have a unique ability to garner the attention of search engine spiders and crawlers - making for much faster i...
By: Rand Fishkin
W3C Valid Code
DesignCode validation is an issue that has been tossed back and forth in the SEO world for years. The W3C's standards appear to have the general support of the validation and standards organizations across the Internet, thus leading SEOs to ask the leading question,Does having validated ...