Establishing design and usability

Where’s your logo, people?!?

To all the people with no logo: please get that logo of yours taken care of. This is your brand! I can’t believe the number of sites that have plain text headers. I’m not talking about sites that were put up last week. I’m talking about relatively mature sites that have been around … Related [...]

WordPress vs. Joomla vs. Drupal: Who wins?

About a decade ago, I worked with an interactive agency and one of the add-ons to our offerings was what we called an admin tool. We sold these left and right because there was a need for business users to update content, such as adding copy/images or introducing a new product, and they didn’t want [...]

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9 things you can do to speed up your site

Is there such thing as a site that’s too fast? If you’ve been keeping up, my last article was about Pingdom, which pointed to a tool that allowed you to check the speed of any of your pages. I also mentioned that if your site is too slow, you’d quickly see visitors abandon your site, [...]

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Do you know how fast (or slow) your site is?

Look, we’ve all been there. We do a search, see a link that we believe has the content that we’re looking for, and click. Then wait. Then wait some more. And if we’re really patient, we gave it a whole 5 seconds to load before we click the back button. So how we can measure [...]

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Frugal 3.5 is better than ever

Believe it or not, Frugal has just celebrated its first birthday. It seems like Frugal has been around much longer since the theme has made such a big splash in the WP theme community. Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I’ve been a Frugal theme fan … Related [...]

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9 simple things to make your site more usable

It’s that time of year again! This is my 10th year as a judge for the Web Marketing Association. Throughout the last decade, I’ve watched the evolution of static websites to web 2.0. Regardless of era, usability has always been a primary focus when I judge sites. These are websites from major corporations, you know, [...]

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Be an affiliate for something that people actually desperately need

Looking for a great affiliate to market on your site? How about an affiliate partner that provides a service that differentiates one site from another… a solution that every serious blogger or business needs? I proudly unveiled my new logo six weeks ago today. Since then, I have received many comments regarding how it provides [...]

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