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Sep 29  05
Robert EllisMoney2 Comments

SEOmoz has posted a list of 93 metrics that search engines may use to rank documents. While no one knows the secret machinations of the big search engines, these tips could help you increase traffic to your site. Some of the most important factors: title tags, keyword use in your document text, and the primary […]

Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

Sep 29  05
Robert EllisDesignNo Comments

I know I just posed about free icons available from ExplodingBoy , but today ExplodingBoy has done it again. This new set consists of 25 monochrome icons. All the essentials for your blog or web site are included.
Go get ’em!

More Free ExplodingBoy Icons

Sep 28  05
Robert EllisDesign1 Comment

I often struggle with how to label links and I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve been guilty of using “click here” to identify a link more than once on Futurosity. But this piece, Why “Click here” is bad linking practice, by Jukka “Yucca” Korpela, nails it:

“Click here” just looks stupid.
“Click here” looks especially stupid when […]

Don’t Click Here

Sep 27  05
Robert EllisDesignNo Comments

More icons for your blog or web design. ExplodingBoy, aka Christopher Ware, offers up thirty-one free icons in four sets: blue, pale blue, orange, and grey. While not as exhaustive as those available from Drunkey Love, they include all the essentials, like Comments, Posts, Categories, Home, Search, etc.
Get ExplodingBoy Pixel Icons here.

Free Icons From ExplodingBoy

Sep 27  05
Robert EllisDesignNo Comments

If you’re looking for some free icons for use in your blog or web design, check out Drunkey Love. Drunkey Love, created by Kevin Wetzels of el73, offers over 100 16×16 icons in GIF and PNG formats. Categories include Actions, Flags, Media & Devices, Things, and Weather.
Visit Drunkey Love.

Free Icons From Drunkey Love

Sep 22  05
Robert EllisDesignNo Comments

This handy online tool lets you compare three different typefaces side by side, displaying font variations (regular, bold, italic, etc.) of sample text (”Lorem ipsum…” or your own text). You can choose from a safe list (fonts available on both Mac and Windows systems), from lists of Mac or Windows default fonts, or any of […]

Compare Screen Type with Typetester

Sep 22  05
Robert EllisBloggingNo Comments

James Torio has written Blogs: A Global Conversation. His “Master’s Thesis on the Social Phenomenon of Blogs,” which is available as a free download, is also a fascinating study of the business of blogging. Torio conducted a survey of bloggers and received 174 responses. The paper covers the impact of blogging on business and communication, […]

Blogs: A Global Conversation

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