Aug
24
2007
at 11:17am
Laura wrote me and asked why the three sites I have discussed so far in my Great Websites series use tables for layout. Good question! I did notice this about them when I first wrote up my crtiques, but it didn’t affect my decision to include them in the series (although I hadn’t put 2+2 together and figured out that all three were table based). Why? Because I was already drawn in to the site. That’s what really matters – the user experience. Who cares if the site is using tables for layout when the experience is that good? Read more…
Posted in Great Websites, Web Standards | 3 Comments »
Aug
09
2007
at 9:44pm
Has anyone tried StumbleUpon yet? I decided to check it out last week partly because we were getting a bit of traffic to our sites from it and I wanted to see what it was like. What fun! I can’t say that I’ve actually surfed like this in years. Probably not since the 90′s. Seriously.
Who just surfs the web anymore anyway? There’s so much crap out there, I can’t be bothered to sort through it. But I still like the web. I want to look at websites. I see a lot of websites and subscribe to a lot of feeds, but it’s just boring somehow. What sets StumbleUpon apart from other aggregation sites is that it’s just more fun! The randomness makes it entertaining, and you can pick from a wide range of topics. I don’t have to look at just tech news and even on that topic I’ve come across a ton of neat stuff I never would have found elsehwere.
That’s my 2 thumbs up for StumbleUpon 
What about you? Have you tried it or are you more into a different bookmarking site?
Posted in General, Web Culture | 10 Comments »
Aug
02
2007
at 5:29pm
I’ve got another post up at the SEOmoz user generated blog. This time it’s about the intersection between SEO and Web Standards.
From what I’ve read, there are some misunderstandings on both sides. SEO’s tend to think that validation = web standards and that’s all you need to know. Standards advocates tend to think that standards make a difference for SEO. But do they? That was the question. Read more:
Web Standards and SEO: More Questions than Answers
Posted in Marketing/SEO/Monetization, Web Standards | No Comments »
