Making Things
How to find images for your project without stealing.
Where do I find free photographs and images for my projects?
Also posted in Design Assets Tagged Creative Commons, Creative Commons licenses, Flickr, Graphic design, IStockphoto, photography, Royalty-free, Stock photography 1 Comment
Website redesign SEO checklist
I want to migrate my site from one domain over to a new domain and I want to make sure that all of the inbound links that pint to the old URL get redirected properly without impacting our PR. I'm also a little concerned about how my new information architecture will impact the SEO. What should I do to help keep my SEO after my site redesign?
Also posted in How To Tagged Search engine optimization, Uniform Resource Locator, Web Design and Development 1 Comment
Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your Wordpress site.
How do I install the Facebook Like button on Wordpress?
Also posted in How To Tagged Facebook, microformats, Open Graph, RDFa, Social media, Social network, Wordpress 4 Comments
Resources for making your site load faster, the new SEO ranking factor
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As noted previously, Google is using site load time to help rank sites. I put together a quick list of further resources to help get everyone rolling on optimizing site speed for SEO.
Making a website load fast requires the help of everyone on your web team. The person making the content [...]
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Site speed is now an SEO issue: 3 things to do to speed up your website right now.
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It’s official. Google is including site speed as an aspect of how it determines who gets to the coveted “#1 on Google” spot. This has been coming for some time and really shouldn’t be a huge surprise to any of my readers.
Here are some things you can do right away to help make [...]
Also posted in How To Tagged Cache, google, Search engine optimization, Search Engines, SEO, Website 3 Comments
Presentation: Improving Social Media via Web Analytics
The master post for the Getting Started, Getting Better: Social media improvement via web analytics presentation.
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Happy Spring from the Dogsharks
An example of children's animation and music by Thoughtfaucet.
Also posted in Examples Tagged Animation, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Dogsharks, Media Production, Musical composition, Toon Boom Leave a comment
What to do if you don’t have room for an H1 tag, visually in your website design.
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I had a blast at the HomeQuest/FATCo/PHATCO event in Portland. I’ve got about three or four followup posts to write, based on questions. But to start off I wanted to address this one about web design (I’m teaching my weekly web design class tonight so it’s top of mind for me).
A more in [...]
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Thoughtfaucet Business Cards Series r2 (W00t! for Moo.com)
Thoughtfaucet Business Card Series r2 arrives January 2010. Here's the full key and description of imagery.
Also posted in Examples Tagged Burlington Vermont, Champlain Valley, Design, Essex Junction Vermont, Graphic design, japan, Marketing, Vermont 2 Comments
Dogsharks animation to be a part of Prix Jeunesse International