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January 2011

Development

Alex’s Recommended Plugins – Plugin

In developing with WordPress for a few years now, I have found that there is a shortlist of plugins that I find useful on almost every site I work on. These plugins cover the range from things every good site should have - help with SEO, contact forms, analytics, automatically generated XML sitemaps, database backups - to other aspects that might also be desired - image galleries, A/B testing, eCommerce... and now, you (and I) can have this list available…
January 31, 2011
CultureDesign

Logos

Mondays early morning design research & inspiration brought me to an article from Creative Review, a London based design / visual communication magazine and blog, about logos and the top 15 chosen by their readers. I thought I'd take the time to discuss a little of what I learned, my opinion (which doesn't necessarily mean anything), and what logos mean for a company. (more…)
January 31, 2011
Culture

Don’t Read This Unless You Like Music

Like most people, I like to keep my Fridays as chill as possible.  Unfortunately, this does NOT appear to be one of those Fridays for me, with a bunch of stuff to get to by the end of the day.  On the bright side, I’ll be jamming to some amazing tunes all day, so it could be a lot worse.  One of my all time favorite websites, which also happens to be an amazing resource for finding new artists and…
January 28, 2011
DesignMarketingTips

Yum Yum…Tips for Restaurant Web Design

As part of my weekly grind, I like to take some time and read about design, design standards and just see what's going out there in the web design world as to sharpen my skillz for future clients, and just to sharpen skillz in general. In reading I came across an article about best practices for designing restaurant websites. Any article that mentions "best practices" always catches my eye, and I was interested to see what it had to say…
January 27, 2011
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

10 Site Basics to Increase Customer Loyalty

Just about every web design and web development professional is familiar with the work done by world renowned web usability expert Jakob Nielsen.  For those who are unfamiliar: he has invented several usability methods, published a number of books and countless articles on his research findings; in addition to holding 79 US patents, many of which outline ways of making the web easier to use.  While doing some research of my own, I came across a republished article of his…
January 26, 2011