Things categorized as 'Design'

Web design but also design as such and its manyfold expressions

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Hey Freelancer: Are You a Worker or an Entrepreneur?


Construction Worker by Saad Akhtar Recently it dawned on me what the biggest roadblock to my financial success is. I started my freelance career as a worker and I've remained ...
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Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists


Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks ...
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7 Stealth Publish for WordPress Uses to Consider


CC: Stealth by Johnson Camerface. A WordPress plugin that removes posts from the RSS feed is what I've been searching for for a while now. I thought it would be an ...
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Top 7 Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration


Social bookmarking, it's what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to ...
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Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?


Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been ...
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The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients


Ignore this by Reeuwijk. The main message of many designers' websites. Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, hate ...
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7 Usability Mistakes Usability Experts Commit


Usability expert at work? CC: Bela donna by hypertypos. Today, November 13th, is World Usability Day. I'm not really involved in it in spite of being really interested in usability user-centered ...
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Top 10 Firefox Extensions for Search, Website Optimization and SEO I Use


Besides using such obvious Firefox add-ons and toolbars like those for StumbleUpon, Delicious and Browzmi (the StumbleUpon, Twitter & Mixx combination on ...

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce and Never Come Back


Bounce rate means the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site instantly after taking a look for less than a second. Many people bounce due to your own mistakes ...
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The 10 Worst Findability Crimes Committed by Web Designers & Developers


Crime scene by Cati Kaoe. Web designers & developers often focus on web standards,
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Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes


Address by sam.d URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there ...
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Saturday Night Fever for WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify


Dear reader, I assume that you rarely actually visit my blog. You probably read SEO 2.0 in Google Reader, Netvibes or Bloglines but indeed I look at my blog daily. After almost ...

10 Coding Guidelines for Perfect Findability and Web Standards


Perfect findability and web standards can be achieved with the same means when it comes to coding. Thus I collected a very simple list of 10 coding guidelines for ...
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Findability, New and Better SEO? Experts Disagree; 12+ Findability Resources


Findability is a seemingly new term that has become a buzzword recently due to a book called Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter (not to mix up with Aaron Wall, author of ...
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Top 7 CSS Tricks for Better SEO


Google baby by skoop. As most of us know it is often really difficult to build websites for both the user and Google. Google still needs to be assisted in finding ...
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SEO 2.0 Basics: WordPress URL Design


WordPress is, you might already suspect it, the most popular blogging platform aka blog CMS out there. Thee are plenty of good reasons to use it although WordPress has some ...
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SEO 2.0 Basics: Images or Finding Stock Photos


For my SEO 2.0 blog I tend to use images only as a nice to have add on due to the fact that my time for blogging is very limited. Last week ...

7 Must Read End of Year Lists for Internet Power Users


While I'm not the typical end of year list type of guy, I feel that 2007 was a year that saw certain developments you shouldn't miss as an Internet power user, SEO ...

30+ Reasons Why Your Web Design, SEO, Web Hosting or Startup Company Should Advertise on my Blog


After more than 3 years as a full time SEO consultant and 10 years in online publishing and 10 years writing for the web I realized that I can really write about ...

5 More Design + Usability + SEO Articles: The Clean Dozen


Some of you might have already noticed: A guest post of mine called 7 Must Read Design + ...