Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’
Cars with no Tires Eh?
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The Setup You don’t make sure you new car comes with the tires because it would be absurd to sign the paperwork and come outside to your new car up on blocks. It’s a general expectation that cars come with tires. Why then do we put clients in that situation with websites? Take a new [...]
Contribute to the Link Economy?
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
You are reading a blog post (profound I know) and staple of blog posts is to cite other sources via links. Like when I wrote “You Might Need a Redesign if…”. In that post I linked to Niki Brown’s Ugly Website competition. So why did I do that? Well ultimately Niki had content that was [...]
Careful About Cheapening Your Work
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
The Annoyance I have been on Twitter for a while (Follow Me) and recently I have been noticing a trend with designer’s tweeting and offering their services for ‘rock bottom prices.’ Many days I see someone offer a deal to the next 5 people that tweet them. The ‘best’ I saw was logo’s for $97 [...]
Twitter for Business
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Where ever you look today you see that everyone is using social media and not just in their personal lives. Look around many of the big companies are using social media as well. Some do it well some do it poorly. What is twitter for big business? It’s more than just a place to tweet [...]
Google Conversion Optimizer
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
I attended a webinar on Google Conversion Optimizerrecently and had to write a summary for work that I thought I would share with everyone. I don’t profess to be an expert (that’s why I went) so if there are things I am missing let me know. What is the Conversion Optimizer? At it’s core the [...]
Just Fix the Problem Now Regardless of Cost
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
It would probably be a safe bet that you have a cell phone. It would also probably be a safe bet that at one point or another they have been less than stellar in their customer service. Whether it was billing or a DOA phone or dropping your message box it has happened. The worst [...]
The News: IE 8 may not suck and the freelancer bootcamp
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
What I feel is the biggest news of the day is the fact that IE 8 now passes the Acid 2 test. So it may be that we won’t hate IE as much in the future. Admittedly we will still have to wait for IE 6 to die. Over at Freelancer Magazine there has been [...]
The News: IE to use Webkit & Staying creative
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Well here is an interesting development. In a recent developers conference in Sydney Steve Ballmer said that “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that.” This is very interesting as the rendering in IE sucks currently and Webkit is awesome. I know that for all web designers it would be a wonderful thing [...]
The News: Firefox is alive, seo, and some marketing advice
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Today is a great day for web designer’s. It seems that Firefox is finally over 20% of the market share in browsers. Firefox is awesome, and it is wonderful to see it reach this milestone. Hopefully this really pushes IE to be standards compliant instead of the PITA that all web designers are familiar with. [...]
The Daily News: Google custom search and getting more clients
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
How many of us have used the built in search for a site and found it to be horrid? I know that a site I am currently working on has what I feel is an unusable search function. In fact the results are so bad I think it’s better if they aren’t even there. So [...]
