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Andrew Miller of YourSearchAdvisor.com made a fantastic presentation at WordCamp in Richmond last week.  Here’s a summary of Andrew’s best practices for optimizing search. Read the rest of this entry »

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One of the buzz topics last week was Security & Safety. The issue is URL shortening services. Read the rest of this entry »

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Broken Link Checker

Now and then, it’s good to check if all the links on your site are functioning. Here’s a handy online tool to do just that.

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Delicious We’re always finding new sites that inform or inspire us. Now it’s time to share. Read the rest of this entry »

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Web 2.0 for Realtors

julie_sm.jpg We’d like to thank our good friend Julie Roland for letting us create her new Web 2.0 real estate web site. Read the rest of this entry »

The Color of Tabs

Semantics - such a funny word.

se man tics - noun 1.a. the study of meaning.
- Dictionary.com

When is a particular design choice simple and functional and when does it crossover into being self-absorbed minimalism? We’re talking about web page tabs.

We’ve noticed two schools of thought regarding the coloration of web page tabs:

  1. Tabs that show a change to indicate a live page
  2. Tabs that don’t show a change to indicate a live page

WMBDB (we may be dinosuars but), we like to know what page we are on. We don’t like to hunt around for basic info - is it in the address bar? in the title bar?

SO: Tabs which change to show a live page are simple and functional. Tabs which leave a viewer searching for the information are just minimal.

Our colleague Gary recently pointed out another reason why dynamic websites perform better in search than static websites. Read the rest of this entry »

People ask us “exactly what is Web 2.0?” Well, we’ve collected a few examples we like of Web 2.0 goodness on del.icio.us - Read the rest of this entry »