If you’ve ever seen or worked on a site-in-progress, you’ve seen lorem ipsum text, the Latin filler text that has been around for ages as the standard in filler text. It’s quite useful as a universal signal for “content needed”, but it can get quite old to look at the...
Google released a new update today (although reportedly only affecting 1% of results) that penalizes sites with ads above the fold. In other, words, the less content you have above the fold, the more you will be penalized. The point of the release is to make it easier...
We've all seen them - sites with brilliant designs, amazing copy, and a photo taken on a 6-year old digital camera with less resolution than your smartphone. They're everywhere, and they're giving up a powerful opportunity to convert prospects into...
A new joint study released by Università degli Studi di Milano and Facebook, reveals that the social networking site is actually working to reduce the "degrees of separation", a popular theory created by Stanley Milgram. In his popular theory on the six degrees of...
Ever wondered where everybody gets their Facebook "Like Boxes", Tweet buttons, and +1 buttons? Well, every social media site has a "Developer's Workstation" (to borrow Facebook's terms) that contains all of the tools that they offer for web designers and site owners....
Navigability: capable of being steered or guided... The navigability of your site is essential to your conversion rate. If customers can't find your product, they can't buy it. If it takes too many clicks to get to your product, they won't buy it. If they don't like...
A lot of people have been waiting since Day 1 to see brand pages become real on Google+, Google’s new social networking site. Unfortunately, they’re still in the works and we’re waiting to see what they’ll look like in real life. We recently caught a great post on...
Google announced yesterday that they will be releasing real-time data on their Google Analyitcs dashboard. This is great news if you have a site with a lot of traffic coming in on a daily basis. This will allow you to gain faster feedback on information. Previously...
Facebook held their own version of the G8 summit yesterday for developers, dubbed "f8". This year they announced some spectacular changes to Facebook, from the way people will see your profile to the way that apps can use your information. Here's the skinny: Profile ...
You check your email on the fly. You check Facebook on your phone. You might even check in at your favorite restaurant on Foursquare on your iPhone. However, viewing websites on the small-screen has historically been a painful process. Despite this, a recent study...