Web Content posts

Here’s one thing that never made sense to me: people make websites so others can find out more about them, but most “About Us” pages absolutely suck. They’re either really long and boring or really short and mysterious. Not many people understand the best way to go about these pages.

Many believe the “About Us” page is an afterthought because everyone wants to see...

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about markdown as an alternate way to format text.

I decided to do a little research and see what all the talk was about and I was actually quite glad of what I found; markdown is simple markup language that makes it easier for writers to write good content for the web without having to worry about the HTML code in their articles.

The benefit of using markdown is that...

Good enterprise search services are a huge boon to productivity in large companies with a lot of data to manage and access. Google Mini or Search Appliance often come to mind when thinking about these kinds of solutions, but they’re not the only players in the industry.

SearchBlox can index and search through more than thirty different types of files. This includes documents, images, videos, email archives, RSS feeds, websites, databases, and any content that contains metadata. All you have to do to start indexing is set your folder paths or root URLs—SearchBlox does the rest.

Whether you need a website search engine,...

Building stuff for the web is fun. Want to know what isn’t? Waiting on a client to give you content so that you can launch their bloody website.

Before I founded my startup, I worked as a freelancer and built websites for all kinds of clients. I often found that my entire process would fall short when it came down to the delivery of content. Worst of all, I would find myself not getting paid because their website “hadn’t launched.”

It didn’t matter who the client was or how much planning had...

My therapist says I’m obsessed with revenge. He’ll be sorry he said that! It’s not that I’m paranoid about all of the people who are against me; I just want to make them all pay dearly.

I truly believe that the web is the greatest revenge weapon invented since the burning bag of dog poo on someone’s doorstep, and the novelty squirting flower filled with sulphuric acid.

Of course, I’m kidding about being so enamored with revenge. People just misunderstand my desire for social justice in our unjust society, world and universe, just like there’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone tightly...

“The personal computer is the thing that’s always with you, always connected [and] has your stuff on it.” – Luke Wroblewski, Drupalcon Denver Keynote, March 2012

Your mobile phone is always with you. It’s always connected, and it has your stuff on it.

As designers we focus on creating with the user in mind, and that means paying attention to the user’s mobile. This need to keep mobile in mind has lead Luke Wroblewski and many others to tout the phrase “Mobile First,” meaning that the mobile experience should be designed and considered first and foremost with desktops a secondary consideration.

The pressure to create designs using the mobile first approach...