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When it comes to designing a new web site, most beginning and unaware designers only care about how amazing the site will be.
Often times as designers, we can take off with a crazy idea for a site design and it ends up jam packed with design on top of design on top of design. Unfortunately, some of us don’t always consider one of the most important purposes of the site: to be found so that it can deliver content…
Alan Bleiweiss gave me permission to put together an Epic Dinner at SMX West 2012 because he won’t make the show this season. We’ll miss him! We’ll try to make it EPIC w/out him!
Here are the details that I have so far:
We’re continuing the tradition started by Alan last year, holding the dinner at Morton’s The Steakhouse. 1.5 blocks away from the Convention Center…
A friend of mine (xomiele, as he’s known on his personal blog), who represents photographers and illustrators, was amazed at the number of hits a piece he created for fun was getting on the internet. He took a few Smurf figures and some household props and made a tribute to “The Last Supper.” To his delight, it was selected by Bit Rebels as “One Of The Best Parody Illustrations of The Last Supper…
Today we have some an awesome set of Grunge Concrete Textures from Vandelay Premier where you can get awesome resources for designers for a very low cost.
This texture set is normally for sale only, but you can download it today absolutely free!
These textures were designed by Caleb Kimbrough and can be used for both personal and commercial projects, including theme and template designs…
Google was granted a patent today on Blog Search, and how the search engine might filter blog posts out of blog search based upon a number of factors. The patent was originally filed in 2006, and it’s the first patent filing I’ve seen from Google that uses the term “splog.” The screenshot from the [...]…
Whether you’re developing WordPress themes for yourself, for a client, or to sell commercially, having the ability to customize aspects of your theme via the WordPress control panel makes your theme infinitely flexible and many times more versatile and appealing.
By giving backend users access to options that otherwise would involve delving into the php template files to change layout, logo image, colors, and any number of other options…
Since Google announced in July that there would be Google Plus business pages there have been speculation that Google would integrate Plus and Places. We saw some early Plus Plus Places (a mouthful..) integration in November but now Google appears to be testing P+P (or is it ++P) integration using the rel=author tag as the glue between the two.
Over the weekend I found these author images in blended Places search results for lawyers in DUI Lawyers Phoenix and Criminal Defense lawyer Orlando…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Perhaps Google may finally have to figure out a “fix” for Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem,” now that an anti-Romney site is making it appear that anyone can rank any protest page for any politician’s name…
This week’s installment of Infographic Friday is courtesy of KISSmetrics. A question I’ve often been asked is “what should my bounce rate be?” And of course, the pat consultant answer is “it depends.”
According to this data, the average bounce rate is 40%, which is interesting. But whether your target bounce rate should be 40%, 30% or 15% depends on your industry, what type of page (home page, product page, which product, etc), and even what traffic source or referring keyword…