Archive

Design Inspiration with Ember

I constantly have my eye out for nice designs. Web sites, posters, rooms, houses, walls, gardens, anything.

I recently discovered EmberApp which is a place to share and seek design inspiration. Check it out. It’s nicely designed itself, and you can just peruse, or you can upload, gather, and organize your design inspirations to share with others.

I’ve been designing/re-designing a couple sites and I’ve been using it to both save inspirational designs and to browse for new ones.



Ember app: design inspiration

25 ways to drive traffic to your blog or website: Part I

Tweet Having started this blog not too long ago I’m facing what most people face with a new blog — not many readers. So I’ve been reminding myself of ways to start getting a blog found, as well as researching new methods that I’ve never used before. This post has been split into sections, and ...

Pingler: A Scam of a Ping Service?

Tweet UPDATE: This post has been updated. I have removed claims that Pingler is a scam, since it is possible that there is something happening in the back-end, even though the front-end doesn’t reflect it accurately and is misleading. I just discovered something interesting about the service Pingler. Okay, I hate suspense too, so I ...

Undesign: All That You Can’t Leave Behind

Tweet Regardless of your preferred type of content (maybe you aren’t a geek like me), I think you’ll find the design/layout of Simon Hørup Eskildsen’s blog refreshing. Actually, it’s not so much that it’s a nice design, it’s more that it was nicely “un-designed”. Stripping away everything that’s not crucial, leaving only what the reader ...

The Art of Giving Back

Tweet We all know it’s a great feeling to receive a gift. When we are children it’s often because we like toys, and the more we have to play with the better. As we grow older it often becomes more about the thought than the gift itself (we’ve all heard “it’s the thought that counts”, ...

The mistake of trying to cover up your mistakes.

Tweet I recently had Hostgator switch over my MX settings to Google so that I could try out Google Apps for Business. I mainly wanted to check out the ability to manage multiple email accounts from right within the same space. After a day or two of testing it out the emails were very delayed ...

SEO tips from Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team

Tweet This is one of the more informative SEO (search engine optimization) videos I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a site review session from Google I/O 2010 by Matt Cutts, who heads Google’s Webspam Team.  They asked in advance for people to submit their site for an SEO review and then Matt walks through ...

A lesson in encouraging reader involvement, from A Smart Bear

Tweet One of the blogs I frequently read is A Smart Bear, run by the super-nice Jason Cohen. The other day I posted a comment on a post over there, and in response got an email in my Inbox that included this: You’ll notice your comment also appears in the “Recent Comments” sidebar on every ...

The best feedback you’ll ever get about your business. Free.

Tweet It’s amazing how frequently I go into a restaurant, store, or other type of business and immediately notice something that should be, but isn’t. Or stuff that is, but shouldn’t be. No-brainer stuff. Much of it could be accomplished in a few minutes, or at least less than a day. If you’re a chef ...

Google word verification tells me I’m not human

Tweet Really, Google? You’re trying to verify I’m human, but you’re starting to make me think maybe I’m not. Maybe a machine could read this, or one of those fancy new Photoshop features, but not me. Seriously, it’s not just Google, but I think theirs are the worst. It usually takes me about four tries ...