Archive for November, 2008
3 Examples of Why Cuil Sucks
I was recently reading a follow up article on Cuil. Some of you may remember Cuil got a lot of press in July of 2008 when their search engine launched. Many felt it was likely to be the first search engine to provide real competition to Google. A lot of this publicity came from the [...]
A Great List of Web Safe/Friendly Fonts
Today I came across a great chart showing web safe fonts by operating system and I thought I would share it with all of you. Designing for the web is difficult and one of the primary differences between print design and web design is freedom with fonts. For years, fonts have been a major issue [...]
How to Create a Simple Podcast RSS Feed using PHP and MySQL
Generating a podcast RSS feed with PHP is actually very easy. I have had to do it a few different times and every time I do it I have to look up the syntax of the XML document. To save myself time in the future I thought I would document the process here for myself [...]
Explanation of How PageRank Actually Works II
Last week I posted about a video that explains how PageRank actually works and details the real value of PageRank. While they posted the second installment this week so I have brought that to you here: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – PageRank Part II from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. Also, SEOmoz had an interesting article about [...]
New Web Design and Online Marketing Community on LaunchPad
LaunchPad is a regional social networking site for the Spokane area. I joined the site a couple weeks ago shortly after it launched. It has grown quickly but needs the help of it’s users to make it a valuable resource. To do my part, I created a web design community on LaunchPad. The community can [...]
Celebration of World Usability Day
So in celebration of World Usability Day I thought I would highlight an interesting article titled, “The Benefit of Accessible Design for Able-Bodied Users of the World Wide Web.” Everyone has heard someone on a soap box talking about how important usability and accessibility are to users with disabilities. While this is very true, not [...]
Google SEO Guide… From the Horse’s Mouth
For those of you interested in SEO, today Google made an interesting post on their Google webmaster blog regarding SEO. They have published the “Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.” It is basically a list of best practices but it is worth a read. As a web developer this may be worth something to distribute [...]
Paul Boag’s Talk from FoWD – Educating clients to say yes
Paul Boag just put a note on the BoagWorld blog that is talk from FoWD New York has been published by Carsonified. I presume this means the other talks are available to watch online or they will be shortly. I will have to start searching around and see what I can bring to you guys. [...]
The Economy vs. Zipline Interactive
Over the last couple months the news has been filled with stories about the economic slowdown. With so much publicity, as a business owner, you can’t help but worry about what kind of effect this will have on your business. So far, here at Zipline we have escaped the slowdown fairly unscathed. Other than the [...]
Inbound Links that Hurt
I have read some theoretical writings by some less then ethical SEO experts that suggest that you can successfully lower your competitors search engine ranking by building links to them using spam sites or other unethical linking strategies. I personally think this is unfair and terribly unethical. It is bad enough that some competitors are [...]