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jScripts At Work

Author Saishu Hane | 29.08.2008 | Category SEO

In an effort to give sites a bit more visual appeal. Thanks to jScripts, the page curl can easily be added with a bit of photoshop for the images that appear. An example can be found on a site for Breckenridge real estate that uses it in the first implemented stages. As later accounts emerge, more will surface with higher quality. Also serving as a link, the Page Curl can cleverly link to any page you want, most commonly used to go to contact pages and such.

Glancing Back

Author kimberlyh | 22.08.2008 | Category Designs

I’ve been doing design for some time, and have lately glanced back at some of my older designs. They have certainly come a long way - especially after I became surrounded by other, more talented designers. Perhaps my optimization page designs aren’t always the best (mostly because the client’s site does not have much to work with, such as this page for a financial freedom site), but the few designs I’ve done here for splash pages and three-page sites are certainly at a much higher bar than early designs that I did before coming here.

I’d certainly say that it is because I am watching other people do designs now, rather than just poking at other designs, and I’ve found a greater amount of resources to draw from. Plus, advice. Definitely, I’d say that the advice helps greatly.

Excessive Div’s

Author Saishu Hane | 19.08.2008 | Category SEO

Email’s done through some email client as I’ve discovered over the past few days have an astonishing amount of div’s in them. They don’t even do anything in the particular email’s look, but yet they live. Taking out these div’s and making the look a bit more friendly to your eyes is as easy as using any editing software. Heck, even notepad will do. While not encouraged in the degree of email that I’m referring to (there were literally over 100 div’s), it is still doable. I recommend using the Firefox Developer Toolbar or Dreamweaver. I’m sure there are others, but I currently only use those two. Well, three if you count notepad.

The toolbar however gives you the ability to grab the code and work with it to make sure that it looks exactly how you want it to when you use it in other areas. Forum posts, edited email’s, site building, ect.

A Flurry of News

Author kimberlyh | 14.08.2008 | Category SEO

Not but a month ago, there used to be perhaps one or two folders in the New stack, with a sizable stack in the Rework section. Now, it seems that the News stack is growing off the wall; this is a good thing, of course, because it means that more clients are being pulled in, from home based business sites to wedding and family photography sites.

So am I complaining? Absolutely not! It’s great to see a wide range of clients coming in, as opposed to just MLMs or real estate agents.

Cuil To Center Stage

Author Saishu Hane | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO

Cuil has been out for a short time and already is claiming to do 3 times more indexing than Google itself. And ten times more than Microsoft. The time to submit your URL’s and such to the engine is now. Going off of the sites content and not the popularity the domain, Cuil shows promise with giving the people relevant results in their future searches when they become more populated in their crawled pages. Pay close attention to this particular engine. Great things are expected from this new contender.

Writing For Seo

Author Jeffh | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO

It seems that over the time I have spent working here, that writing is the most intricut part of SEO. You can design the best looking website, or have the most consumer friendly layout. But in the end, if your content is not good, your page will not be ranked, and no one will see your site. Using the Content Length excel sheet given to me by the Shu, I have found that writing content has become a fair bit easier. No longer am I guess, thinking that perhaps I have shorted the amount of words. No, now it is much more simplified. I used this content length sheet for a Unicare Texas site that I made. It has to do with insurance in Texas and such.

Hope this helped! Until next time.

Really Pretty Design

Author kimberlyh | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO

Well, this week was fun with a San Francisco outdoor teak client whose website was absolutely fantastic - not going to lie, I strongly enjoyed designing their optimization page.  It’s really nice to get a site that has a simply great look and feel to it.  I’m a bit iffy about their opening page, but the general presentation of the site is simply good looking.

Optimization only does part of the sale - a great site like that does the rest!

Updated Del.icio.us

Author Saishu Hane | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO

Del.icio.us has got itself a brand new look, which is far easier to read than before. Even recognizable through delicious.com, the improvements are really in the design of the site. Showing the tags on the right with the title and description to the left. Making the tags much more discernible to the untrained eye. It did certainly have it’s bugs in the beginning of the new design where it would kick you from even looking at your own account, but these issues seem to be fixed.

Fun Illustrator Fun

Author kimberlyh | 05.08.2008 | Category Designs

I have a habit of trying a new thing concerning graphics, and doing it over and over again for a little while - and then forget that it completely exists and do other things instead.

Lately it’s been Illustrator blends. I’ve found that it’s so much fun to create two vector curves with the pen tool, then go to object -> blend -> make and make it into a ton of really pretty lines. And today, I experimented and went to blend options -> specific steps, and added 300 lines, with one line a dark color and the other line a lighter color. This makes it look like a gradient - it’s definitely a really cool trick!

Everyone’s trying to take everyone over

Author kimberlyh | 05.08.2008 | Category SEO

So, I’m sure many people have read or at least heard about Microsoft trying to take over Yahoo!, but now even more interesting is that MS and Yahoo! are attempting to now take over AOL.

According to Ars Technica, Yahoo! it seems wants the internet portal; so, basically, we’d have a Yahoo! internet service, from what I gather - not just email, but more places for users to place ads. Microsoft, on the other hand, wants a search function. Right now AOL uses Google for its search, but of course if it mergers into either of these companies, that would be dropped for either Live Search (Microsoft) or Yahoo!’s search engine.

The major difference between these two offers seems to be that Microsoft wants to buy it outright, while Yahoo! just wants to combine (thus giving Time Warner a share in the combined company). At least, that’s what I gather about it.

I don’t think that this will really affect SEO in any kind of way unlike what a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! would, but it is kind of interesting to watch the big guys duke it out.