You’re a graphic designer, and there’s nothing wrong with that it’s a completely legitimate career. But you’re not a web designer, drawing websites in Photoshop makes you a web designer in the same way that this image makes me an architect.
Facebok Login
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Obviously this doesn’t do anything, I just thought it’d be funny with the recent login kerfuffle, especially with the intentional misspelling of Facebook I might get a few hits on Google. I’m aware that I’m a bastard.
Getting SEO advice from your webhost…
…is like getting advice on what to say to your customers on the phone from BT
A guide to Search Engine Optimisation for clients of web design companies
A lot of clients who hire some designers to design & build their website will pay a third party for SEO, often too much relative to what their paying for the design and development. Here are the steps you need to follow for budgeting.
- Take the number of sales you make to Search Engine’s spiders (which is 0)
- Prefix it with your local currency’s symbol (for UK visitors £0)
- Spend that much on SEO
- Take the money you were going to spend on SEO and hire a copywriter.
Because good content is important, maybe if it was called Potential Customer Experience Optimisation (PCEO™) clients would pay silly money for it.
New Design
There are 2 reasons for the new design
- I’m working at 5mm for the next couple of days and as there’s absolutely nothing planned in the tech world for that time I figured it would be interesting to talk about my use of CSS3 selectors.
- The old version was over designed…
Theres a few bugs in IE, who cares?
Magyar
The recent snow meant my delivery from Tesco didn’t was cancelled, but 2 great things.
- They sent me a £10 off voucher, which is nice
- Their website has a ‘My recent orders’ section, I can add everything from the last order, with the correct quantities, in a few seconds.
A bigger threat than terrorism and other links
- Obviously it’s lawyers, gagging The Guardian (to help you avoid working with/for, or hiring/buying from, either of the companies make a note that Trafigura are a bunch of cunts, and that Carter-Ruck are also a bunch of cunts)
- Getting back to nerd stuff – a good overview of why Tog’s ideas for the Springboard weren’t great the Springboard expose video is very cool.
- and the truth about PSDs, stolen from Dom
The League of Moveable Type
It sounds like it should be a subversive, underground movement of angry laser printers, but is actually a bunch of open-source fonts
Oldest First
It’s especially bad when the comments are paginated, so when you’re going from the last page to the first you just have to hope no-one adds a new comment.
You always want the oldest first so you can read it in order, so when someone refers to a previous comment you’ve already read it.
You never want the newest comments on a blog post or article first, here’s why…
New Hicksdesign
it’s possible I haven’t been paying attention, or I’ve only been looking in NNW but the new design must be recent, and is definitely fucking brilliant