“I know you’ve spent a lot of time and energy on the site, but Google can’t crawl it, and you’ll have a hard time to rank competitively in the future.” Cut to the SEO discovery meeting…Here we sit, looking at your website (the one you just spent a lot of time, energy, and money to…
Ask yourself this question: “Within 15 seconds of visiting my site, does the visitor unambiguously head towards the goal(s) I need them to accomplish for my website to be profitable?” If you’re like many, the answer is “not even close.” Over time, websites evolve until they’re blurry. They lose their focus as demands of new…
Hotstop is a map site with subway and bus directions in New York, Boston and Washington DC, but it brings some innovation to the table that pushes forward the public transportation and local advertising paradigm a few notches. First, Hotstop gives you transfer information for public transit that you can put on your mobile phone,…
Idea 1: Imagine if you will a podcast widget. This little box looks like a tape recorder. It has a play, record, rewind, ff, and pause button, all large and friendly. It has a small (gasp) speaker. When you want to record, you treat it just like an old fashioned tape recorder. But there’s a…
This blog entry moved to my articles page. writing for the web in an age of hummingbirds.
I also finally learned Carp and Grouper XML/Atom translation techniques for dynamic page generation and blog publishing. I took this and created a second tab on my home page that will hold my blog entries. Cool software – it has lit my idea light a bit on how my clients might be able to utilize…