Bruce Clay Blog : 2/9 : Web Design
July 9, 2008Bruce’s Guide to Appropriate Use of Flash
There has been a lot of controversy over our post about Flash not being the SEO solution that a great many people hoped. Our statements, along with many other intelligent voices, claim that Flash is not off the hook yet as a search engine-unfriendly technology. What I find amazing is that so many designers just [...]
July 1, 2008
Don’t Build Your Web Site In Flash
I’d like you to do me a favor. Please disregard everything you may have read this morning on Search Engine Land, Matt Cutts’ blog and even on the Official Google Blog. Flash is still evil; please don’t use it to design your entire Web site. No, really. Don’t. I think it’s great that Adobe is [...]
June 4, 2008
Diagnosing Web Site Architecture Issues
Back from lunch. Carrot cake is delicious and Vanessa Fox is now moderating the Developer’s track with speakers David Golightly (Zillow), Jonathan Hochman (Hochman Consultants) and Chris Silver Smith (Netconcepts). Vanessa says we’re going to talk through the kinds of things they look for when they’re going through sites and trying to locate issues. There [...]
Search Friendly Development
Good morning, Friends. It’s time for Day 2 and I’m coming to you live from the brand new Developer Track. The Developer Track is awesome because it comes complete with a fancy waterfront view. I’d also mention the yummy bagel I’m eating but I think Michael VanDeMar is going to come and kick me if [...]
May 6, 2008
eMetrics Keynote: Optimizing eBay – Improving Customer Experience at the World’s Marketplace
Happy Tuesday. Time for a morning keynote where everyone gets free coffee mugs and are then blinded by strobe stage lights. Yey! Jim Sterne welcomes Elissa Darnell and Deepak Nadig. I think. His voice is really distorted over the microphone. Elissa and Deepak are from the eBay. Up first is Deepak Nadig. He’s going to [...]
March 24, 2008
Worst. Web Site. Ever.
Fact: The best way to ruin anything is to take away the simplicity and intuitiveness of something and complicate it with technology and/or stupidity. Seth Godin hit on this topic in his recent post about the world’s worst toaster. In case you didn’t know, the world’s worst toaster is the one that requires 10 steps [...]
February 28, 2008
SEO & Usability: They Can (And Should) Coexist
Industrial Strength SEO
February 26, 2008
Search Marketing & Persona Models
February 21, 2008
Being Sexy On The Internetz
It’s Thursday and I’m sitting at my desk dreaming of dandelions and remembering what it was like to live in an area of wooded trails and open fields where the damn things grew out of everything. I’m remembering the summers and the hours spent laying belly up cloud gazing and dandelion decapitating. Long Island summers [...]
