Design

Aggressive Use of Your Homepage
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Aggressive Use of Your Homepage

Lots of sites have a very simple homepage design. Google is a perfect example of this. However, I have found that loading up the homepage with information has increased sales, pageviews, visitor time-on-site, and linkbuild rate. (Rand and Matt's new design for seomoz.org - shown at right ...

WeeWorld Profiles & Visual Communities
Rand Fishkin

WeeWorld Profiles & Visual Communities

I'm particularly fond of WeeWorld - I love the illustration style, the feel of the interface and the thinking behind it - that we can all have an online identity that follows us from place to place. The concept of an avatar has been around since the nascent beginnings of web forums, but to have a community of identities that allow for customization, represe...

Wufoo - Woo Hoo!
Rand Fishkin

Wufoo - Woo Hoo!

For those of us who have to constantly reference HTML form help pages to create new forms for websites and surveys, there's nothing better than this cool new "AJAX" automated form builder. It's intuitive, easy-to-use, well designed and very flexible....

AJAX vs. Comet
Rand Fishkin

AJAX vs. Comet

A few days ago at HighRankings there was a thread asking about AJAX's use to develop websites. I chimed in with my $0.02 only to find that many folks in SEO are, apparently, unfamiliar with the new technolo...

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Vanishing Affiliate Links
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Vanishing Affiliate Links

I have some affiliate sites and recently received two messages from site visitors who were interested in making a purchase but could not figure out how to click through to the purchase page. I chalked the first one up to some cranky person who didn't know how to run a br...

Clever Buttons
Rand Fishkin

Clever Buttons

I like the idea behind this button site. From buttons for sushi and coffee to wishlists, geographies and politics, they've got a very wide selection. Take this concept, apply it to other graphics, text, content, games, programs, etc. and you've go...

Updating a Logo
Rand Fishkin

Updating a Logo

I noticed a highly linked-to post on Fizbang web design that covered how to re-touch and update a logo. Interestingly enough, Matt just re-made the logo for SEOmoz (for our new business cards and new website - on its way). Check out a walkthrough: ...

Cozy vs. Sterile Design
Rand Fishkin

Cozy vs. Sterile Design

JewelryJean at cre8asite is asking about choosing between "homespun" design that is more cozy vs. a more sterile, professional design. The crowd jumps in with some terrific advice and points to a few resources that help provide evidence for the argument that profe...

Open-Source Full Text Editor for Content Applications
Rand Fishkin

Open-Source Full Text Editor for Content Applications

I've been using KTML and Matt's home-written code for a while now with SEOmoz, but I'm thinking of making the switch to FCKEditor. The name reminds me of the London fashion firm - French Connection United Kingdom (FCUK), but it's actually a good-looking system. You can try it for free on this page and download the installation sof...