I pulled this collection of links together a while back as the research basis for a post that would have been titled “Information Architecture in the Rich Web Era”. I still haven’t written that post, but rather than let these great IA links rot in my drafts, I figured I would release them into the [...]
In all of my years of web development, I’ve never been a part of a project that didn’t experience some level of difficulty during creation. Clients and developers alike are guilty of saying things like, “I don’t understand why this is so hard!” I figured it was high time someone gave them some insight about [...]
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. When you are scoping a new website project, you’ll ideally start the process by appearing to be an expert and having done this kind of work before. How you set it up in the beginning establishes many precedences that stick throughout the project. Clients [...]
So, there’s a ton of information I come across on the Webernet that I’d love to add to my blog, but don’t quite warrant a full post. I’m looking for ideas about how I can write microposts. I’m thinking one sentence posts that aren’t in my full post column/feed that would appear in a third [...]
Hey everybody it’s party time! My company, Nemo Design, is hosting the opening night party for the WebVisions conference here in Portland. It’s a no host bar, but the first 100 attendees will receive a free drink ticket.
The funny thing about sites that have killer information on them is that they tend to look amateur in design. I recently discovered a blog that has a hot bed of great SEO knowledge, but if you didn’t know any better it looks like just another blog. Aaron linked to this blog, which is how [...]
Ok, so, I’ve been consumed with the rich web for a while now. Specifically, I am interested in developing sites that offer the rich interface that provide humans with a more meaningful interaction with online content, but degrades elegantly to allow for the greatest accessibility, aka progressive enhancement. It’s all part of my quest for [...]
I was helping a friend of mine set up a Yahoo! Store to sell jewelry online. She had already purchased her domain name from BlueHost, so I was trying to figure out what the DNS info was for Yahoo! to update her domain name. I am a very capable web developer, but after a solid [...]
This now abandoned blog has a handful of juicy promotional secrets. There’s a particularly good one about how releasing a WordPress Theme is a great way to gain backlinks (everytime someone installs it, there’s a credit link to you in their footer).
Check it, don’t wreck it.
Ok, so I don’t know why it just occurred to me to post some of my favorite ninja tricks, but it did, so here:
Did you know that your can permanently redirect various versions of a page to a single address to increase your number of links to a page? That means if you redirect http://www.yoursite.com to http://yoursite.com and http://www.yoursite.com has 10 links to it and http://yoursite.com has 5 links to it, then by creating a 301 redirect, the home page now has 15 links to it, which increases Google PR and the volume of search engine traffic.
Metafluence is my blog that focuses on graphic and web design, Internet strategy, web development business practices, and industry points of interest. I continue loading the admin of my Wordpress blog day in and day out because I like connecting with people. It also gives me warm fuzzies to post on here because I know I learned about web development by reading other people's blogs. If you read something on here that you like, feel free to leave me a comment, ask me a question, and/or introduce yourself. If you need some help formulating a strategy for your website or defining a project before hiring professional web development company, I am available for strategic Internet consulting.
