Includes business model review, site goals, site checklist, keyword research, content checklist, competition, social media, and most important elements affecting organic search traffic.
The first step in tackling an organic search engine optimization (SEO) project is often an SEO website audit. This audit helps lay the foundation for future search success. Properly worked, an audit can be primary reason your site jumps from page 4 to page 1 on the SERPs. Read more →
Summary:
Good mobile user experience requires a different design than what’s needed to satisfy desktop users. Two designs, two sites, and cross-linking to make it all work.
Based on usability testing of hundreds of sites, the main guidelines for mobile-optimized websites are clear:
I had a nerdy conversation on what might be the next mainstream framework for building web products, and in particular whether the node.js community would ultimately create this framework, or if node.js will just be a fad. This blog post is a bit of a deviation from my usual focus around marketing, so just ignore if you have no interest in the area. Read more →
HTML5 is only one part of the”Stack”
HTML5 is really more than one thing. In the strictest sense, HTML5 is fifth major revision of the W3C specification of the markup language that is used to create web pages.
But in a practical sense, HTML5 is far more than that. For developers, HTML is a wave of technologies that are evolving and gaining browser implementations along roughly the same time-line as the markup language itself. Many of the related technologies are being spearheaded by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (whatwg.org), but still other technologies in this genre are driven from elsewhere. For example WebGL, the 3D rendering en/Apps/Getting_Started)engine for Web Apps, is driven at Khronos (http://www.khronos.org/), and Mozilla’s WebAPI team (https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI) is leading a collection of relevant API work including a comprehensive array of device-specific APIs. And the W3C was a Device APIs Working Group ( http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/] ) Read more →
The most common problem that bloggers like me encounter is that point in time when no idea seems to be good enough to be written and published. You’d think that the biggest problem here is thinking of what to write about, but the underlying problem is really answering the question, “is it good enough?” or “will my readers like it?”
Thankfully there are a lot of tools and people who can help you verify if that idea of yours is good to be written about or not.