May
20
Here’s a great ready-made To Do List of quick improvements you can make to your website. Definitely one to bookmark. I know I’ll be working through them. I may not agree with 100% of them, but most look pretty spot-on.
Here are a few items from the list:
- Keep background colors and images at a minimum. Backgrounds are often less than visually appealing and can make your site load slowly.
- Reduce choices. Avoid overwhelming your visitor with lots of different options.
- Stay consistent. Check to make sure that colors and design are in the same general scheme so that visitors know they’re still on your site.
- Validate design in alternative browsers. See how your design renders in browsers like Safari, Opera and Firefox to make sure that it looks right no matter who is viewing it.
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Website
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May
20
Here’s a 27 second video by the creator of Web Pages That Suck. Whose big idea was it to create trailing cursors? Guess it seemed like a good idea at the time. It just screams ‘AMATEUR!’ If you have a trailing cursor on your site, banish it to the realms of darkness where it belongs today. Please.
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- Friday, June 13th, at 2:04am
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has written a great post about batch processing his blogging-related tasks. Doing similar tasks in batches is a great time-saving (and sanity-saving) technique for most activities in life, not just blogging. Darren goes into detail about how he does it, and it’s well worth a read.
Read the whole article: How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
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- Friday, June 13th, at 12:14am
Great article about writing headlines, by Copyblogger (one of my favorite bloggers). My favorite line from the article is: “In fact, this headline makes me want to give up blogging and become a shepherd.” I’ve had that fleeting feeling.
Can You Write an (Almost) Unbelievable Headline? | Copyblogger
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- Tuesday, June 10th, at 2:56pm
I’ve finally completed my About Page. What do you think? Any suggestions?
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- Tuesday, June 10th, at 2:55pm
When Google first created its beta (first draft) home page and set up a test to see how well it would work, there was a problem.
“[Our beta testers] would sit in front of the Google screen for 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds, a minute…Google was perplexed.”
Interested in what the problem was and how easily it was fixed? Read the article:
What You Never Noticed About Google
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- Thursday, June 5th, at 11:39am
More people are switching to a better web browser. Have you switched yet? As IE’s slice of the pie gets smaller, web designers and developers feel happier, because IE doesn’t follow the rules (standards) of proper web design.
“Internet Explorer continues losing its market share. This time it lost more than 1%, from 74.83% to 73.75% (1.08% decrease).” Read more at Internet Explorer Loses.
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