Do you remember where you were on that fateful Saturday night, March 5th, 2011, at 10PM Eastern, 7pm Pacific? I remember – I just brought in a take out order of dry wings, calamari rings and was getting ice-cold beer from the fridge. The house was quiet, and my wife and I got comfortable in ...
I recently had to re-install some twitter/tumblr syndication modules on a few small sites. Reason: sudden performance issues. The sites were medium-sized, and depended heavily on externally syndicated content. You’ve seen these busy sidebars before: a few recent twitter posts, a few more tumblr pics, another FeedBurner, maybe a dozen of Disqus/Echo comments, Amazon widget. ...
You’ve probably seen this cartoon before (if not, just google it), and if you have – it made you chuckle. Now how many will admit being involved with such challenging projects (web or otherwise)? How many will admit to managing (or rather, mis-managing) something that resembles the above? I hope a few hands are still ...
Magazines Canada has just finished an exciting week of MagNet. A four-day long marathon of seminars, galas, sold-out speaking engagements, endless networking, culminating, of course, with National Magazine Awards ceremony. While I couldn’t attend the awards (this thing runs late into the night – honestly), I followed the shenanigans vicariously, via twitter updates (and here), ...
Social sharing has come a long way in so little time. Just a couple of years ago the concept of ‘viral’ or ‘widgets’ didn’t exist, and webmasters/publishers were happy just cross-linking to each other’s content, getting ‘contras’, asking to be listed in a directory, etc. But ever since the first ‘Digg’ icon showed up (or ...
BEFORE AND AFTER: - the old site (below) had a clumsy vertical navigation, and had a lot of unused, empty space - the new site (above) runs the most important channels across the top (as well as on the side), and uses effective visuals to keep the interface intuitive and informative - the old site ...
BEFORE AND AFTER: - the old site (below) had the storefront buried after an unnecessary ‘splash’ page, that needed to be managed manually - the new site (above) updates the storefront which has ‘splashy’ elements, but also provides one-click commerce functionality - the old site needed additional modules for dealers’ list, newsletters, site news, and ...
BEFORE AND AFTER: - the old site (below) - the new site (above) www.snowmobilertv.com...
Before and after – sire revamp goals: - the old site (below) had static pages, managed manually, and often at a high production cost (external) - the new site (above) uses a content-management system that automates content production, eliminates unnecessary coding concerns - the old site had inconsistent, clashing color scheme - the new site ...
BEFORE AND AFTER - the old site had an online community (forum) that was essentially locked out from content pages - the new site (above) introduces blogs (commenting, sharing, tagging), and inline comments on articles/recipes/menus. The same community can now directly interact with the site’s content and editorial team - the old site had a ...
