This blog was viewed 13,838 times in 2010. The last few months have averaged more than 2,000 visits per month - which is beyond any expectation I might have had.
One word that seems to be cropping up more and more at meetings and conferences I go to is 'learnings'. Somewhere at sometime a charmed vocabularian coined this abomination.
Praise. Print it. Laminate it. Affix to the wall in the best $5 certificate frame you can find. Why everyone should have an email happy folder.
I'll make a bold statement. Web Designers are like Plastic Surgeons. Well, the good variety are anyway. Sure, they are vastly different occupations. One requires over 10 years of study, the other you can teach yourself.
When Google announced changes to their search index last week and called it Caffeine, I naturally took notice. Of course, I have a vested interest in changes to SEO because it fundamentally affects the way I do work.
So what would happen if you merged a Thong (flip flop) with a Jogger (runner)? You'd get a Thogger or for American readers a Flogger.
I recently updated my web design portfolio page on this site. It now includes all work I've done as a sole freelancer from 2005 to now. I've completed 17 web development projects since venturing out on my own.
'What's all that gibberish writing on it?'. "I could have given you text to put in there if you asked for it".
Now whenever I come up with something mildly amusing all I have to do is a quick Google search to have my anticipation dashed. Someone (usually many someones) have already thought of it before me and had the capacity to post it on the Internet for the world to see.