Every time I see SEO its always about “Let me make you site #1 on Google” or “Maximise your site’s potential”. All of that and the word SEO is just a big marketing wank to try and sell a service that should be free/provided from the web designer/developer.
Whenever a web designer designs a site they should always be aware of SEO and how to maximize the sites “trollage” by search engines. More-so, whenever copy is made for the web it should always be written in the best way to get the most Google juice. But even that is not necessary any more.
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Being ugly doesn’t mean your not popular, at least when referring to websites. I have comprised a list of ugly yet popular websites on the net. Whilst looking at these sites see if you can see where they went wrong, then you can avoid the same mistakes. Just a note, I hate the phrase Web 2.0 which I will explain later but I have had to use it because it describes what I mean better.
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With its 8th birthday coming up on the 27th of August its time to reflect on a very painful and long lived life of Internet Explorer 6.
Released on the 27th of August in 2001, IE 6 was the new browser to be included with Windows XP. IE 6 was an improvement to its IE 5 sibling and at its time, was ok for standards and compliance with CSS and HTML. In the next few years there was plans for the new HTML 5 and CSS 3 spec and other browsers, such as Firefox and Safari, started to include these new specs. IE 6 over time has become more and more behind the times and now is one of our biggest issues in the web design industry.
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I hate it. For me it is the worst term out on the web today and I cringe every time I see it, especially when it’s used in marketing.
The fact I hate it is because no-one really knows what it means so they assume they know what it should mean. I have head the following keywords from other web designers of what they think Web 2.0 means…
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With its latest design overhaul lets try and look at what Facebook is trying to do and how they failed at it. Also a quick look at why they keep changing their god damned minds. This story couldn’t be resisted. It’s caused a huge uproar in the whole Facebook user-base/community.
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September 6, 2009 9:45 pm
