Usability

July 24, 2008

Good Websites are like a Good Cup of Coffee

I moved to Australia almost eight years ago. Since then I have become somewhat of a coffee connoisseur (or snob, depends on who you talk to) and no longer sit in ignorant bliss sipping back on Tim Horton’s coffee while downing a box of Timbits.
I now join in enthusiastically at international web conferences with fellow [...]

July 9, 2008

Developing your Descriptions - Part 2, The Solution

In my last article, Developing your Descriptions (Part 1, The Problem), I discuss the importance of meta-data descriptions for all websites depending on any organic traffic through search engines.
I also briefly discussed some of the obstacles in getting this data implemented correctly on larger websites.

These obstacles include:
Not understanding the negative impact of not including description [...]

June 10, 2008

Developing your Descriptions - Part 1, The Problem

I am currently doing some SEO work for a personal project, more specifically I am populating the description meta-data for this project.
For this, I am making sure each page description is unique and presents an accurate description of what each page is about if a user were to click on a search result.
Now this is [...]