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Published September 17, 2008 by

Realign vs. Redesign & SEO

I’ve been doing some reading up on SEO – Search Engine Optimisation for work and also had a conversation with my boss the same time about looking at how we can change things for the better for Ergo online. Where the initial idea was to have a brochure equivalent web presence, things have now evolved through the blog and what not and it no longer holds the prime shelf placement. (That and it could do with a new look, but that’s my own prerogative* seeing as I made the thing in the first place).

There is a very interesting article on Realign vs. Redesign over on A List Apart. It is making me rethink my blog overhaul (which hasn’t happened, clearly) and making me lean in the direction of small change, same feel… it could potentially make my life a lot easier, so it’s win-win.

I’ve been reading about SEO over on SEOmoz, it is putting into words what I think I subconsciously know.

*or opinion

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Published September 11, 2008 by

The even plane

So she now has the internet and technically could be blogging, but does she?

No.

Instead she points you toward PagePlane.com with it’s fun header and lovely wealth of design resources.

It seems that the writing in the fingers needs sufficient time to warm back up and the fingers aren’t exactly sure where to start while also otherwise being preoccupied with lovelies such as rotoscoping and GilmoreGirls (*yes I did just say GilmoreGirls) and sometimes-lovelies such as branding. Yes. And other homework.

Basically things are progressing at a very standard rate-an even plane. Small things only. Like coffee today with an *Indonesian girl she only knows a little bit from uni. Like Pratchett novels. Like minute progressions to different perspectives. Little conversations about church. Bedtime conversations with CS Lewis…her own head. And the teeter on the edge of what feels like some bigger conversations/explorations with God which currently have no tangibility whatsoever – maybe they’ll get relevant when I work out what they actually are?

All up it’s rather boring but rather nice. I am not sure that is a good thing.

*Relevant country totally just included for you Sammy

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Published August 5, 2008 by

Street View

Hello all, just a brief drop by to let you know I do not yet have a phone or internet at my new house, that should be remedied by the end of the week. But all you who do (and are Australian – because the ‘others’ have had it longer) can go check out Google Maps for their new street view, it’s pretty freaking clever.

Street View

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Published July 24, 2008 by

The end of a starry age

Today I sat and looked at the most massive pile (electronically speaking) of starred Google Reader posts and decided it was time to do something different.

My previously ‘starred’ items that I used as link love and reader love, now reside under Google shared Items. This means that I do not have to individually pull their link out and into a standard blog post. I share it and it gos up automatically, there is even an rss feed for the purpose and I will dump the link I’m about to give you somewhere in the sidebar.

As the backlog was horrendous, this also means that the current ‘shared list’ is quite long. So if you have some time and want some eye candy or brain candy, here it is. Collected for you. They live there forever.

Needless to say, links will not disappear coming through here, but now get to spy on things I find inspiring, both in the art, personal and theological world sooner, I get to be distinctly more lazy (or perhaps more efficient) and probably get less back traffic (not such a good thing, but for the sake of dealing with it all, is for the best).

Now if only Google would let me categorise the shared items?

Bec’s Google Shared Items.

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Published July 1, 2008 by

Blog theme from scratch

24959x-086aI have this shocking habit of going and starting interesting things at very inconvenient times.

The other evening I began work on a new blog design/site design, in order to incorporate or in more realistic terms, mash the whole lot into something cohesive.

It currently looks very, very different to anything I have had up before. Yes I like it.

But wait! There’s a catch, at the moment my pretty little design sits in all it’s html and css glory and I have this ugly obsession with this marvellous WordPress thing. So until I figure out how to make it all work as a blog (and when I do, I can squash the world between two pinkies whenever I like, because this will give me great power, truly it’s exciting!) please sit tight.

I have to go overseas first, finish and improve a certain photographer’s website, hope and pray that my ‘design contact’ calls me some time that’s more convenient and wait for the sordid remains of my university marks for the semester – which could at worst throw me into a pit of despair and I mightn’t show my face for months.

Meanwhile, any resources you surely-able technologically minded people have in relation to scrubbing up a wordpress theme FROM SCRATCH would be greatly appreciated. I do have some idea what I’m doing but anything helps.

*Apologies for the boring title, this is my ploy to lure useful people from the depths of the internet. Alternatively I would’ve gone for something more like, “We’d change with the season, if it didn’t take so much work”. And that would just be silliness going beyond reason.

**There is a clue here. Unless I change my mind.

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