29Mar
It’s always been a problem of web design that it’s not always so easy to come up with an original idea, can any idea actually be considered totally unique anymore? In the absence of talent and inspiration some designers will simply steal someone else’s work and pass it off as their own. Yet after reading Brad Colbow’s recent post it got me thinking about the thin line between what is inspiration and what is stealing.
It’s amazing when you think about the things that we don’t consider stealing that could be claimed as such. Is Google Buzz stealing the idea of Twitter or Facebook stealing the idea of Myspace? Because they’re simply ideas we don’t think of it as stealing, so how about the original ideas in web design. Was the second person to use the letterpress style stealing from the first, and at what stage did it become a trend rather than stealing?
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23Mar
Yesterday the well respected web designer that is Paul Boag wrote the post “Why I Don’t get SEO“. As I work a Bronco, primarily an SEO company, I was planning on commenting but originally felt I’d simply be covering the same ground as the other commenter’s. So instead I thought I’d write a response here and try to highlight why SEO is a necessity for many websites.
Paul’s Argument
I think Paul’s post is mainly based on two arguments:
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22Mar
I don’t tend to get many phone calls from clients but when I do it always appears that the phone calls go on for much longer than they need to thus keeping me from actually doing the work I should be doing. Of course phone conversations are necessary at times to allow a more fluid conversation but both timing and content makes for some frustrations:
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17Mar
At the Speak the Web conference a bit ago I attended a session about HTML5. Although I knew a certain amount of what was happening with HTML5 there was one part that I didn’t know and I couldn’t quite figure out what affect it would have.
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