Monthly Archives: April 2008

3 tips for a more dynamic website in less than an hour

Posted on April 29, 2008 by mattias

This post aims at giving you 3 tips for achieving a more dynamic webpage with very little programming and no change in your workflow. The tools we are going to use are: Yahoo Pipes Twitter Wordpress Delicious Magpie RSS What … Continue reading →

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CSS Frameworks and the Anatomy of Web Design

Posted on April 25, 2008 by mattias

In this article I will try to dissect how we use CSS in order to design our webs and try to find a model that will make it easier for us to use and create CSS Frameworks that fits all … Continue reading →

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6 Should Read JavaScript Articles

Posted on April 24, 2008 by mattias

Below I have listed a couple of JavaScript articles you should read to prepare for the awakening of JavaScript as the main web development tool. It doesnt matter if you consider yourself a .NET or Java-developer, if you do not … Continue reading →

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Why Traditional Usability Sucks

Posted on April 15, 2008 by mattias

Maybe your boss, contractor or project owner has just started to be usability-savvy and is planning for usability-studies, personas and interviews in the next big project coming up. You may even have a vision defined on your company saying that … Continue reading →

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Social Networking and Online Marketing

Posted on April 11, 2008 by mattias

The number of social networks is growing fast. An average user probably uses more than one of the big social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Ning, LinkedIn, Delicious, Twitter or Digg on a daily basis. As a lot of traffic … Continue reading →

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Long Tail SEO

Posted on April 11, 2008 by mattias

What is the Long Tail? How can it help you? The term “long tail” was created in 2003 by author Chris Anderson in his book The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. For … Continue reading →

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Online Marketing Basics – Conversion Rate

Posted on April 11, 2008 by mattias

What is conversion rate? Conversion rate is a measure of how well users converts from one state to another action. For example, if your website has 100 visitors and of those 100 visitors, 20 of them take some form of … Continue reading →

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Online Marketing Basics – PPC

Posted on April 11, 2008 by mattias

What is PPC? PPC is short for pay per click. Pay per click is a form of advertising that many internet marketers use. For example, let’s say you have a home based business and you need advertising an easy way … Continue reading →

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Online Marketing Basics – CPM

Posted on April 11, 2008 by mattias

This is the first in a series of Basic Online Marketing Posts, describing some acronyms and ways to go about starting your online marketing. What is CPM? CPM is an acronym for Cost Per Thousand. The “M” in CPM comes … Continue reading →

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DOMAssistant 2.7 released with unicode support

Posted on April 9, 2008 by mattias

Robert Nyman announced that DOMAssistant 2.7 was released today. They have some good competiton from jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, Ext and all the others. Interesting to see that DOMAssistant is the first library to actually take things like Unicode-support seriously. Of … Continue reading →

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