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A smart idea and super smart design

Hi there,
Just a quick rant about a cool website with a sense style I’d like to imitate.
http://www.flippachick.com/
This “chick” has an awesome website design and her portfolio is full of beautifully designed websites too!
I’m a frog not a chick and my designs are pretty froggy…
For me I am more of an architecture person, I [...]

Posted 21 October 2009 † taiyo johnson § Sites to imitate ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

How to get a 100% on your Google Local Listing

Ok. So Blumenthal had an interesting post detailing with a pie chart how to get your google local listing 100% complete.
Although whether this matters or not is up to debate and the odds are on the side of it NOT mattering.
But it is fun to have a 100% nonetheless so I tested it out [...]

Posted 16 October 2009 † tdomf_b7add § resources ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Mining your customer database for gold and Google Maps

I have been reading Tom Feltenstein’s 401 Killer Marketing Tactics…  so my marketing muscles are looking rather buff.
One idea I found in the book that I am applying as we speak for a client is the idea of a customer map.
The map would have pin-points at the address of each current/past customer. (actually all customers [...]

Posted 14 October 2009 † taiyo johnson § local § marketing § projects § resources ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Wordpress and Breadcrumb navigation

Breadcrumb (navigation)
Without it Hasel and Gretel and your website visitor will be lost…
Luckily, wordpress makes it easy with nifty plugins like this one:
Wordpress breadcrumb plugin - Breadcrumb navxt

Posted 12 October 2009 † taiyo johnson § resources § wordpress ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

OH BOY! These Windows Keyboard Shortcuts will impress

So you thought you were special because you knew shortcuts like “alt+tab” to switch between open windows, function keys, “j” and “k” to navigate between emails in gmail and “ctrl+tab”/”ctrl+shift+tab” in firefox to switch between tabs?
I bet you impressed a few “regular” people with your superior nerd skills. But that was just the tip of [...]

Posted 30 September 2009 † tdomf_b7add § resources ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Simply Awesome - Wordpress “Custom Field” Widget

Ok, this is completely a nerd post.
If you are not a tech-nerd with an unhealthy obsession with wordpress you won’t even understand this. Sorry.
THE MAN over at plaintxt.org (best wp themes ever) has a widget he calls the “custom field widget” that works in combination with with custom fields to make all of [...]

Posted 16 September 2009 † tdomf_b7add § resources ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

PurpleSlurple lets you add anchors where they are lacking for better linking

this is an interesting find I came across awhile ago. It is purpleslurple, a service for adding anchor text to pages you do not control.
What? and why does it matter?
Ok. So let’s say you want to link to paragraph 25 of some bloke’s 4,000 word rambling. (and not make your readers have to [...]

Posted 07 September 2009 † tdomf_b7add § resources ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,