I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Eva Solo.
How much more simple can you get?
This site showcases their salad spinner product in a clean, simple and elegant manor. What more do I need to say?
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I was at a networking lunch yesterday with the Business Leads Exchange Group, it’s a wonderful group that I recommend that you check out if you are near The ‘Burgh.
I’ve been going every month for quite a while now and much of my time is spent catching up with members that I know and finding about what they are doing for their business and how it’s working (or not). I always like to offer my opinions and advice when I can.
One of my friends asked me a question that I have heard before, “which works better organic search listings or paid ones?” I quickly answered that I believe the organic listings are better received.
My friend asked me why and I replied that organic listings are usually free (or less expensive if you are buying SEO services), but even if you leave out the cost factor I believe they are more trusted. Maybe it’s because you can’t (easily) buy them.
When he asked me more questions about it, I found myself quoting from a post I read on the Search Insider blog the other day. Rather than me repeating it again I’ll let you read it for yourself.
I recently removed the cursive fonts from my website. When I first designed it I thought the script fonts made the site more elegant looking, but I have come to realize that it makes the site look much too different depending on the browser that you’re using and which fonts that you have in your system. Not only that it kind of goes against the simplicity thing that I like to see in websites these days.
I think it makes my site more easily readable. Please feel free to let me know what you think.
I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Small White Bear.
It’s a site about climate change, polar bears and why you should care! It’s a very simple site, nice rounded corners give it a smooth look and there’s plenty of space between the letters and words to make it easy to read and understand.
The site makes their point very well.
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Because Twitter is almost all public pages, as opposed to sites like facebook being mostly private pages hid behind your user id and password, most anyone can read your tweets.
Spammers who are always looking for new and inovative ways to harvest their “victims” have realized this and are now picking up a huge number of new email addresses to send their crap to.
It’s easy enough for anyone to do by simply searching for things like “gmail.com”, “hotmail.com” or just “email me at” and you can see for yourself just how many email addresses appear. I’m quite sure this process has been automated by now to speed up the process.
So if you care about not putting your email address on spammers lists you should post your email address (or others) in any of your tweets.
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)
If you live here or plan to visit The ‘Burgh
Got quite a few bounced emails today from some spammer who is forging my domain name on their crap. I’m guessing it’s probably someone who got my email address from one of my Craigslist replies. What a pain in the butt!
All of the IP addresses on the bounces seem to be from somewhere in Turkey.
Received: from dsl88-233-63245.ttnet.net.tr (dsl88-233-63245.ttnet.net.tr [88.233.247.13]
Warning: Sending machine is listed in pbl.spamhaus.org
They keep changing the from names (all ending in Lillicotch.com) so it may be forged as well, but I’m wondering if they are stupid enough to use their real IP. I wrote to the ISP in case this was the real address. I hope it is and that they are strict about this kind of thing in Turkey.
The worst part is that I’m only seeing the bounces. This jerk is sending thousands (millions?) of these and many recipients will assume it’s me sending them just because they appear to come from Lillicotch.com. If I didn’t have a catchall email address I wouldn’t have even seen them, but there’s not much else that I can do.
Added 1:40PM – Stopped for a while and now the new ones are from
dsl88-233-63245.ttnet.net.tr (dsl88-233-62179.ttnet.net.tr [88.233.242.227]
T-Mobile hasn’t even pushed out my “Cupcake” android update yet (I’m hoping next week) and I’m seeing new cool stuff that’s already previewing for the update after that.
Hopefully one of them will help the battery life of my G1, but I’m pretty much resigned to the fact that it’s not improving until my next phone (which I’m very sure will be an Android).
With more and more folks visiting websites with smart phones you need to know how your sites looks on a phone, not just regular web browsers.
I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Lakeside Heritage Society.
I really like the overall look of this site. It looks historical and classic, but the site works really well. You know right away what it’s about, it’s warm and inviting and the navigation is clear, easy to find and use.
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)
A very funny musical cartoon called Worst Slide Story by Walt Handelsman on the Newsday site is a great parody of the economy based on the musical West Side Story. I loved it and I think you will too!
