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See what your visitors see - AttentionWizard’s HeatMaps

I found an interesting service today and thought I would mention it in a quick rant.
For anyone concerned with a user friendly interface (and who isn’t?) this tool is brilliant. And it even has a free service!
AttentionWizard
Heat maps show where users look most (/look first) on your webpages. This particular service uses an algorithm that [...]

Posted 19 February 2010 † taiyo johnson § resources § seo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Just Say No To Flash

Flash makes my small business look more professional = Common misconception
As a minimalist-loving web developer nothing gets my eyes rolling faster than a small business that “has to have” flash animation on its website.
Please! read http://flashsucks.org/
It is a common misconception that small business people have that adding Flash to your website makes it look [...]

Posted 22 October 2009 † tdomf_b7add § resources ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

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: , , ,

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: , ,

A website on how to be a web designer. interesting.

I found this today.
John Onolan is teaching others how to form web design businesses. Interesting.
how to start a web design business

Posted 09 October 2009 † tdomf_b7add § Sites to imitate ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Wordpress Security

Website security is always on the mind of web developers. I know it is always one of my top concerns.
here is a wordpress dev blog post about recent (and age old) ideas on security:
keeping wordpress secure

Posted 08 October 2009 † tdomf_b7add § resources ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Another video production + web development firm I want to imitate, a trend toward “new media” paradigm

I found this interesting web design and video production firm today.
I think I was looking for some info on a gmail modification when I found the site.

Posted 28 September 2009 † tdomf_b7add § Sites to imitate ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Another web developer who lists prices

There are web developers that list prices and many more that do not.
I prefer to list all of my prices and that is what I do on eaglelandgrace.com.
This San Diego web developer does too.
Always interesting to see what others are charging.

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

Creating sitemaps

Just a quick rant post.
Sitemaps are important for Google.
If your site is built on wordpress there is a nifty wordpress sitemap plugin. very nifty and useful.
If you use another CMS it may have its own add-on for sitemaps.
And in other cases there are nifty generators like, http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Posted 24 February 2009 † taiyo johnson § resources § seo § wordpress ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,