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This is the fourth and final part of the series of posts I’ve been writing over the past few months about responsive web design techniques. So far, we’ve covered the basics of what responsive web design is: the fluid grid and CSS3 media queries. Seemingly, our responsive site is complete. However, there is one key component missing in our site: fluid images. Sure, our site responds to the size of […Read More]
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What Daniel Day-Lewis’s Method Acting Can Teach Writers
Daniel Day-Lewis is known for his method acting. He goes to extremes — which can sometimes bridge on dangerous — in order to fully experience the role he’s cast to play, including his role as President of the United States in Lincoln, opening today. Here are a few of his other famous method acting techniques: In Gangs of New York (2002, dir. Martin Scorsese), Day-Lewis took butchering lessons from a […Read More]
Developing a Project Set-Up for Developers
In my last post, I mentioned I wanted to talk about developing a project workflow as a developer. However, after thinking about it for some time, my original intentions were not to say which systems you should or shouldn’t use or which ones I thought might be the best. I’m still exploring those types of things myself. What I really wanted to talk about was what steps you might take […Read More]
How Doctor Who and Quantum Physics Can Help with Your SEO Content Writing
In honor of fellow sci-fi fans gearing up for Halloween, I wanted to talk about the longest-running science fiction television show in the world. That’s right folks; I’m talking about Doctor Who. But what in the world does Doctor Who have to do with content writing? More than you know. Doctor Who has become a worldwide sensation through TV, the Internet and word of mouth, and while most content won’t […Read More]
WINfographics!
Infographics Can Entertain, Inform & Go Viral In a time crunch and needing to come up with an interesting blog post while juggling several other deadlines, I gave some thought (at least 47 minutes) to the subject of time management. This is sometimes the bane of my personal existence, spawning many nightmares over the years. What could be a better topic for a pre-Halloween blog? I’ll tell you what’s better: […Read More]
Word Choice Tips for Stronger SEO Content
Choosing the Right Word The main goal of an SEO content writer is two-fold: keep readers on the page and entice them to act. This is done by providing readers with relevant information related to their search and presenting it in a way that’s easy to find, easy to read, and easy to understand. When writing is informative and well-written, readers are more engaged in what you have to say, […Read More]
Link Analysis Checklist
Brief History of Link Building: From the dawn of the Internet, and more specifically the increasing use of search engines, links have played a huge role in showcasing the popularity of websites. Search engines used the amount of inbound links to a site to determine its page rank and authority, which enabled sites to attain a higher ranking in results. Soon after, sites began to notice a direct correlation of links from […Read More]
Writing Tip: Using Contractions in SEO Content
It’s a new age out there, people. We’re in the middle of a time when technology, information, and even language is evolving right under our noses. Our global society is trained to want the latest and greatest, and catching up to recent trends is easy to do because anyone can get their hands on and spread new information via the Internet. In fact, that’s how the Merriam-Webster dictionary gets its […Read More]
5 Tips For Handling Web Development Requests, Without Pulling Your Hair Out
So you are just starting your day, and you seem to be buried under a pile of work. Not so fast, it doesn’t have to be that way. Does this sound like your day? You have an open request to build a site. You also have an open request to make minor adjustments to a different site (or two or three different sites). Those requests seem to come through a multitude […Read More]
Reinventing the Press Release to Shine Online, Pt. 2
Keep News Items Short, Interactive and Optimized for Search Engines As discussed in Part 1 of this 2-part blog series about “press releases” for small business, things have changed greatly over the years for the classic press release. With the advent of electronic communications and websites, we are talking major changes – not just updated writing style with hyperlinks added. Press releases have evolved into a new category of web content. […Read More]