Labrow Marketing’s blogs on website design, development, optimisation and content
Blog archive: April
Reasons not to do a good job
Posted by Stewart Twynham on 30 April 2009
There is nothing that gets the Web community hotter under the collar than Standards Compliance. Some designers ‘get it’ – taking the time to produce sites that naturally work better with different browsers and in search engines. Others would rather spend their time arguing why it’s not that important – something which clearly separates the ‘craftsman’ from the ‘amateur’.
The Google trap
Posted by Peter Labrow on 28 April 2009
Being high up in Google’s search results isn’t everything: but thinking that it is can be an easy trap to fall into.
An SEO writes...
Posted by Stewart Twynham on 9 April 2009
When a “senior search consultant” kindly wrote to one of our clients offering search engine help, I thought I’d investigate further. Even I was surprised at what I’d discover about this particular scam.
Collaborative wireframes
Posted by Peter Labrow on 1 April 2009
I like to work in collaboration with clients, but in the early design stages, that’s not always a slick process. But I recently stumbled across some software that promises to change that.