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Oct 30, 2011, 3:39 pm
I’m Feeling Lucky is an entertaining look at Google’s start-up days by Douglas Edwards, a marketing professional who was Google’s 59th employee. Edwards tells a story about being brand manager in a company where marketing wasn’t much valued. This could be described as unenviable, if not for ... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2010, 2:53 pm
Last week I finally got around to taking the Google Analytics Individual Qualification and passed with 94%. See my test records and certificate.
I reckon the test should be reasonably straightforward for anyone who uses Google Analytics regularly. The trickiest part for me were the multiple choic... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2010, 9:39 am
Search Engine Optimization Secrets is a good introductory read for business owners who want to get up to speed with SEO quickly. Compared to some of the weightier tomes on offer about the subject, this is a manageable size and presented in a practical way, with useful checklists for many of the t... Comment - Like
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Feb 14, 2010, 11:43 am
Auditing your website content can seem an interminable task, but it’s long been regarded as an essential part of pre-redesign planning and content inventories are increasingly recognised as vital long-term tools for the effective management of web content.
If you’re just beginning to grapple wi... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2010, 7:33 pm
I think I’ve mentioned before how useful I find the lynda.com online training library. It’s always been a great resource for learning web design applications, but it also has an ever-increasing number of titles on other software and broader web-related topics. I’ve recently been watching one o... Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2010, 3:29 am
This is a neat little book on project management, which is ideal reading for web professionals acting as part-time project managers who don’t have time to read weightier tomes on the topic. As the title suggests, it contains 97 two-page essays from practitioners which are generally written in an e... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 4:35 pm
Textual content is a red-headed stepchild when it comes to website design and development. It’s left to the last minute in site redesigns, viewed as a commodity by most site owners and as a simple item in a to-do list for UX designers. Website text is rarely approached correctly in web project... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2009, 6:18 am
I picked up “ProBlogger” this week looking for some motivational reading to get me writing regularly again. I’ve been bogged down for the last couple of months with buying a house which has diverted a lot of time and energy I’d rather have spent working on websites. The process has ... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2009, 2:02 pm
When you start planning a website feedback survey you’re likely to have a lot of questions in mind about the most effective way to go about it. How long should your survey be? What are the best questions to ask? When is the best time to promote a survey during a user visit to your site? How freq... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2009, 11:16 am
I came across a nice collection of free white papers on Alterian‘s website the other day, including several about content management: ‘The Seven Deadly Sins of Content Management’, ‘Best Practice Implementation of Content Management Systems’ and ‘Using a CMS for Search Engine Optimizatio... Comment - Like
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May 12, 2009, 2:19 pm
Rebecca Lieb’s The Truth about Search Engine Optimization provides a concise introduction to the basics of SEO in an engaging way. It’s avowedly not a technical book, but it manages to get across some complicated concepts in an accessible fashion.
Its non-techie language makes it a good choice ... Comment - Like
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May 5, 2009, 4:20 pm
Drupal Multimedia offers an in-depth look at how to integrate images, videos and audio into a Drupal site. The intended audience is beginners and intermediate developers who want to learn how to better control and display media on their sites. Dealing with multimedia with Drupal often feels much mor... Comment - Like
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