Published by Pete May 30th, 2008
in Marketing and Web Development.
Remember the old adage – “nothing ventured, nothing gained”? I think it should be changed to: “planning is required to get the most gain from your ventures” (ok, perhaps that doesn’t quite flow as well as the original, but you get the idea).
Sure, venturing is a very crucial step and without venturing you will [...]
Published by Pete May 21st, 2008
in Usability.
I often lose my car keys and when it comes to finding them, they always seem to turn-up in the least-likely place. You’d think that I’d learn from this and ensure I don’t lose them again… but no, it happens time and time again. The only comforting thought is that I know I’m not [...]
Published by Pete May 12th, 2008
in Google.
If you’re reading this we can pretty-much assume you aren’t Wikipedia, you don’t run a Government ( .gov ) or Education ( .edu ) website, your site wasn’t launched back in 1993, you don’t have 1,470,000 inbound links from decent, relevant websites and over 2 million pages of unique content cached by Google.
If you do [...]
Published by Pete May 9th, 2008
in Usability.
It’s not uncommon for SEOs to make recommendations which will improve the usability of a client’s website although will have little-to-no impact as far as the search engines are concerned.
I’m not talking about fixing the navigation structure, applying no-follows to certain pages to help sculpt the flow of linkjuice, converting image links to text where [...]
Published by Pete May 8th, 2008
in Uncategorized.
Over the past couple of months I’ve stepped out of the social media circles, haven’t Twittered, Sphunn, Stumbled and temporarily stopped blogging as a lot has been happening. Things like:
Purchasing my first house, then spending a couple of weeks moving, another couple of weeks unpacking, assembling furniture and all the other things that happen [...]