What Good Are 1,000,000 Visitors If They Don’t Like Your Content?
I have written before (and here) that I believe that if you have a site that is over optimized for search engines chances are that your human visitors could find it hard to read, use and understand. I ask my customers what good is having all of the traffic in the world if they just […]
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Well it’s September 19th again. If ye haven’t been “Talkin’ Like A Pirate” yet ye can start. ARRRRGH! Avast, when I first be hearin of “Talk Like A Pirate Day” I wrote me a small blog post. That turned into a bigger article that I be postin’ herein this site. Other swabs have been Googlin’ […]
Ideas For Creating A Custom 404 Error Page
In case anyone doesn’t know the 404 Error page is the page you get when a visitor types in an address or clicks a link that is not there. It could be a page that’s been moved, deleted or was never there in the first place. Most sites still have a generic error message that […]
Some Random Thoughts
When starting a new site try to focus on the big picture. Colors and design are initially more important than actual content. Decide on a logo and try to decide what your major navigation links are going to be and where you are going to place your navigation on the page. Don’t sweat the small […]
More Fun Stuff – Jim’s Maze
About 100 years ago I made a game. Well almost 100 years (about 1971 or so). I started drawing these on graph paper in study hall at Taylor Allderdice High School. I started with regular mazes then I came up with a new idea. It was a different kind of maze that I hadn’t seen […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Amazing Images
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Here a site called SlightlyWarped.com that has some very cool images from all over the web. This in a page with some of the coolest stop action images that I have seen anywhere. BETWEEN THE SECONDS With […]
Color Combinations That You Should Not Use
I often send people to the COLOURlovers site to get some ideas for color combinations to use on their website. If you have never been to COLOURlovers to poke around it has so many great color combinations that I couldn’t count them all. One of my favorite pages there comes from nature. They recently posted […]
More Great Text Effects To Try
I am always looking for ways to make cool text and other images for the sites that I design. Having great image effects can really make a site stand out from the rest. I recently found a site called Design Vitality and they have a post called “51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See”. […]
Which Statistics Package Should I Use?
I read a post by By Kevin Newcomb of The ClickZ Network talking about “Comparing Web Analytics Packages”. There are many good ones, but before you compare or decide on a package you need to establish just what and how much information about your site that you are looking for. Do you just want to […]
Can We Do Better Than The iPhone?
Michael Robertson has posted an article called “9 Things an iPhone Can’t Do” where he proposes that his Nokia e61i is the better phone. With so much hype surrounding the iPhone you would think it’s perfect, but I don’t think it’s even the best phone right now. As I’ve written before I think I will […]
