I often use WooThemes WordPress themes for client sites, particularly if the budget doesn’t allow for a complete, starting from scratch approach. They design great themes that are well supported and are built on a solid code base that allows for plenty of customization without having to reinvent the wheel each time you start a […]
25
Jan
2011 Annual Report from Warby Parker
Warby Parker distribute glasses in a customer friendly fashion with free shipping and free returns1. They’ve recently put together their annual report for 2011 and rather than distribute it2 using traditional print and PDF methods, they’ve built a beautiful HTML/CSS/JavaScript based side scrolling report that shows all the important stats on sales, marketing and company […]
06
Jan
WordPress Tip: Update Your Permalinks
The other day I went on 4 or 5 toot rant on Twitter about issues I often come across in websites I visit.1 It was a bit of a letting off of steam and on Twitter, were you’re limited to 140 characters, it’s not that helpful since I just complained and didn’t provide any real […]
25
Nov
Required Listening: Doing Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way
Frank Chimero is a designer and writer from Portland, Oregon and he recently gave a talk at the Do Lectures in Wales. His talk was titled “Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way” and is a good talk to listen/watch for a bit of inspiration and motivation to think about giving and how in the […]
18
Nov
Google+ Community Guidelines
While it’s still early days in how everyone is deciding to use Google+ personally and professionally — Google has just published a set of Community Guidelines that can help give you an idea of how or why you might want to use Google+ for your business or startup. Right now the different groups they talk […]
18
Nov
The Northerly Edition
Coudal Partners is a design and advertising studio located in Chicago. One of the products they sell is the popular Field Notes Brand memo and notebooks. So if you’re trying to market a new version of a notebook you sell, what sort of video would you create to convey the quality that goes into each […]
15
Nov
How Orabrush Got Into Walmart
Interesting story that should inspire you to think outside the box of your normal marketing tactics as to how your product or service could get out there to more customers. Orabrush used a YouTube video and some innovative marketing to get their tongue cleaner that they were making in their garage out to all the […]
09
Nov
One More on Squarespace
Over on my podcast network, SSKTN, we have a new sponsor called Squarespace. I mention this here only because a common keyword search that brings people to this website is ‘squarespace vs virb’ where they land on this post comparing two popular website builder companies. As part of the sponsorship of SSKTN, Squarespace has set […]
31
Oct
Call to Action Pages
The term “call to action” is a bit of a buzzword in the web design/development industry and has been for a few years. Call to Action is a term that describes ways to get the user of your website to do something — an action — that is part of the purpose of your website. […]
28
Oct
Putting Your Business On the Map
One thing that I see a lot of local businesses missing out on is the ability to control how and what Google shows about your business when people search Google Maps for you (or related businesses). When you search Google Maps, in this case for the term “coffee shop”, Google shows you a list of […]