April 27th, 2006
Categories: Domain Management
Many times businesses accidentally let their domain names expire. When they go to renew them, they find they have been snapped up – and taken away with a huge expensive hassle to follow – by an add/drop registrar.
Link: The add/drop scheme. How millions of .COM names are used but never paid for.
April 24th, 2006
Categories: Search Engine Optimization, Website Development
MSN joins ESPN as a high traffic site converting to CSS. The beta of the new site is now online. They don't quite get it right, but its close. Congratulations to Microsoft. Lets just hope that they get CSS right in IE7.
Link: New CSS MSN Layout
April 21st, 2006
Categories: Brand Strategy Development, Search Engine Optimization, Website Development
Mike Davidson's blog has a transcript of an interview he gave to Eric Meyer on ESPN's descision to go with a CSS design. ESPN was one of the early adoptors of the technology for high traffic sites and Mike gives some interesting insights into the process they used and the reasoning behind the descision.
Link: Interview […]
April 21st, 2006
Categories: Art Direction, Website Development
Text for the screen is sized with CSS in terms of pixels, ems or keywords. As most of us know, sizing with pixels is easy: get your selector and give it a font-size – no more thought required. Sizing with keywords is more complicated and requires a few workarounds, but you’re in luck as the […]
April 20th, 2006
Categories: Art Direction, Online Marketing Analysis, Web Analytics
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.
In our new eyetracking study, we recorded how 232 users looked at thousands of Web pages. We found that users' […]
April 14th, 2006
Categories: Creative, Internet Marketing, Website Development
There are so many extensions available for Firefox it can be overwhelming. We have tried dozens of extensions designed to make the life of web designers and developers easier and come up with a list of some of the most helpful.
Web Developer Toolbar Window Resizer Table2Clipboard Palette Grabber MetaTags Sidebar MeasureIt