http://www.alibiproductions.com Accessible website designer and developer Drew Stauffer talks about SEO, SEM, blogging, Wordpress theme development and the best ways to market yourself online. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:23:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever consumers decide to purchase something new, quality is usually a concern. The expression "they don't make them like they used to" has never been more true when you look around at many items these days that are mass produced or, due to rigorous production timelines, simply aren't rewarded the ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/06/17/why-the-development-of-your-website-matters/ Looking for an easy to digest users guide on Google Analytics? Check out the power user guide from VKI Studios. Here's a quick look at the sections of the guide: Introduction: Setup The Site Overlay Report Visitors: Map Overlay Content: Top Content Ecommerce: Overview Content: Site Search Identifying and Setting up Goals Goals and Funnel Visualization Report Traffic Sources: All ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/06/11/the-complete-google-analytics-power-user-guide-vki-studios-blog/ As internet marketers, SEOs, developers and designers we need to constantly be aware of how other people view our sites. Sure we can view our sites in the three or four browsers we have installed on our own machines, but that doesn't nearly come close to the rest of the ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/06/05/check-browser-compatibility-cross-platform-browser-test-browsershots/ A few years back I wasn’t aware of these redesigning of logos on different occasions until one fine day I randomly opened my Google homepage and got to know its Halloween. I was so fascinated with the creative Halloween logo design that out of sheer curiosity, I jumped onto Yahoo! ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/06/01/let-us-all-celebrate-like-them/ Ever find yourself goofing off on a slow Friday? Check out some layer tennis by Coudal Partners. Here you can watch designers go head to head battling on the holy grounds of photoshop and illustrator. They have matches every week so be sure and check'em out. Always a good source of inspiration. Check ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/05/15/layer-tennis/ The last few weeks I have attended numerous meetups, spoken at multiple presentations at Jackson-Dawson, and worked with many people to demonstrate the value of social media and how it can be optimized for business purposes. Social media is all about getting involved with other members of the community and interacting ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/05/06/optimizing-social-media/ Looking for ways to make your designs "pop" a bit more? Take a look at a few of these easy examples and learn how to bring depth and detail into your next website. I have been using these techniques for many years and their all super simple. Once you incorporate them into ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/04/28/5-pixel-popping-techniques/ Ever looked at your analytics and wondered how to improve your bounce rate? Avinash Kaushik from Google goes over some easy ways to look at your website's analytics and immediately discover which pages are causing your bounce rate to increase. Once you know which pages are bringing you down, you can adjust ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/04/19/how-to-analyze-and-improve-bounce-rates/ This is great info for any company that thinks they want to get involved with social media, but wants to control the message. Top 10 Reasons Your Company Probably Shouldn't Tweet http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/04/13/top-10-reasons-your-company-probably-shouldnt-twee/ If your following me on Twitter (and why wouldn’t you) or anybody else for that matter, I’m sure you’ve noticed that long URLs get shortened because of the sensitive character limit. What you need to also know is that some URL shortening services are better than others when it comes to ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/04/07/url-shortening-affecting-your-seo/ Yesterday at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce there was a business jumpstart workshop on Social Media. Speakers included: Olivier Blanchard, Chad McMillan, Geoff Wasserman, Trey Pennington, Adam Landrum, Jay Handler, and Amy Wood. They discussed how to use social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to leverage your business. All ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/03/27/greenville-social-media/ Grids are my new obsession and if you've been looking for an easy way to setup your grid, look no further. It's obviously not rocket science, but this online calculator sure does make it easy to get a grid setup with any number of columns, column widths, and gutter widths. Grid Calculator http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/03/24/grid-calculator/ We know that setting up 301 redirects is the most search engine friendly way to redirect one page to another, but it's very easy to get out of control. A lot of people and companies will register multiple domains and redirect them to one primary domain. One reason might be misspellings ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/03/20/google-defines-301-quantities/ For the last couple months at Jackson-Dawson we have really been trying to get more into social media for both our clients and ourselves and of course one of the first questions that comes up is ROI. Anyone who is involved in social media knows that its very hard to track ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/03/09/10-ways-to-measure-social-media-success/ Looking for an in-depth explanation of the new canonical (ka-non-eh-cal) tag/element? Check out this 20 minute directors cut video from Matt Cutts after his SMX West presentation. http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/03/04/explanation-of-canonical-link-element/ Freelancing on the side has always been a wonderful perk to choosing a design career. I do feel thankful that I happen to have a job that makes me happy and can enjoy doing all hours of the day. The downside to having a designer-type personality is that usually we ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/03/01/taking-care-of-business/ This is a funny post about how you really get what you pay for. This goes right along with spam emails about getting your site to the top of Google and all the major search engines in a week. http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/02/26/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/ Every wonder what makes a beautifully, well-structured design? Creating your website on a grid is one of the fastest and easiest ways. Check out the grid system for helpful articles and templates to get you started. http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/02/24/the-grid-system/ Working through various technologies can sometimes give you nothing but a headache. I'd like to throw out a big thanks to Douglas Bowman and Pablo Gomez for their help with the customization of Pablo's Postalicious plugin. Pablo's plugin is a fantastic way to keep your blog updated with links from your delicious, ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/02/17/a-big-thanks/ So your website has been hacked. All your pages are gone and you can't log into anything to make changes. What do you do and how do you fix it? I've been hacked twice in the past 16 months, and the first time it happened, I was extremely scared, nervous and ... http://www.alibiproductions.com/2009/02/17/got-hacked-how-to-get-back-on-track/