Web Design + Marketing Blog / Podcast

One of the “special” effect abilities of CSS is the ability to have an element be “fixed” on the page (when you scroll, the element remains stationary) either through positioning or by fixing a background.

The ability to keep items static has a profound visual effect on a designs. With frames falling out of popularity […]

Google local lists three companies BEFORE the number one organic list. That kind of search engine real estate is very valuable.
How often the local results are used is questionable - as some people probably don’t even notice it is there (much like the mass amount of people who don’t realize Google has paid advertisements). While […]

Following a post on Mezzoblue, a question I submitted to Boagworld, I have stumbled across a few blog postings responding to this idea of SEO ethics. Being a White Hat SEO, I decided to respond to the negative connotations.
The Problem - Those who do not understand, mislabel
It is easy to identify those who have not […]

Initial Disclaimer - yes I am vane. I was doing a search for my name, to see where I apear in the rankings for a fairly common name (page 2 - woohoo!) however the results come out looking pretty strange. There are two inital catagories, including one that has a sublink labeled “See results for […]

Google moved in down the street from my office, so I figured I would go shoot some pictures. It is a small loft space above a local Ann Arbor restaurant “Vinology.” Looks like they have a top level and then even a loft level above it, with ladders going to the top?

The windows seem to […]