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Google Boys. Andrew Hazen, President of Prime Visibility speaks with Google Boys regarding Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.

Documentary: The Next Web

An iChat Video interview with 5 Internet Influentials who answer 5 basic questions in almost 20 minutes. Tim O'Reilly from O'Reilly Media, Steve Rubel from Edelman and Micropersuasion.com, Matt Mullenweg from WordPress, Marten Mickos from MySQL and Jay Adelson, CTO and co-founder of Digg.com tell us what the Next Web will look like.

10 ways to lose visitors to your website

Here are some issues that could drive visitors away from a site and many of these factors can impact all types of website.

Web Design Trend: Monkey See Monkey Do

Ever wonder what happened to the wonderful days when you could find a site that was truly original.

Avinash at PodTech

Avinash Kaushik [Analytics Evangelist for Google] speaks with Jeremiah Owyang about kicking off a web analytics strategy for your corporate web program. This is a 15 minute video.

Measure Effective Of Your Web Pages

Avinash Kaushik offers information on focus on metrics, key performance indicators and tips on how to measure effectiveness of individual pages.

Checklist: Before you start a web design project

Martin Hardee provides some insightful information on having a good checklist at hand before starting a web design project.

60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs

Another great list from SmashingMagazine where you ’ll find 60 fresh, elegant, professional and visually appealling designs, which pay close attention to details and manage to remain simple, user-friendly and nice-looking.

Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS

A very useful technique that uses an image-based button to expand and contract based on the amount of text it contains.

Five Techniques for Getting Buy-In for Usability Testing

Christine Perfetti outlines the 5 best techniques for convincing management and key stakeholders of the benefits of incorporating usability testing into the formal design process. It's easier than you think.

Here's another helpful tip on web usability testing.

Coding for Content

Most of us have read countless articles and books about (X)HTML and CSS, but, especially early on in our careers, we wonder what goes on in the mind of someone adept at markup and code. What exactly is the thought process? Is it the same every time, or does one start by focusing on a specific challenge in a design? Veteran front-end developer and designer—and regular Digital Web columnist—Garrett Dimon shares his thoughts as he takes on the markup challenges behind his latest personal blog redesign. Read more

Observing SEO Best Practices When Designing Your Website

Often we get asked to do search engine optimization for various clients who have existing websites. We will review the websites, and we are amazed at the blatant mistakes made by the previous webmasters.

Part 2 here

Weebly challenges TypePad, WordPress

Weebly got its start as an easy to use web publishing tool, targeting individuals and small business owners. Its drag-and-drop offering was dead simple and has helped the company attract over 25,000 users.

Strategy With Design

From BusinessWeek to Davos, design is being heralded as an essential contribution to successful corporate strategy and innovation. But it wasn’t that long ago that many corporations only thought of design as a way to “make things pretty”.

Understanding Your Web Audience

Although there are lots of elements to consider when designing compelling Web experiences (writing style, look and feel, information organization -to name just a few), there is one "knowable" element that can be used to appraise the rest: audience.

11th Annual Webby Awards

Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria. See them all here.

The New Google Analytics

Avinash Kaushik writes a very detailed post about the new-look Google Analytics that is rolling out across accounts right now.

Now, more than ever web analytics are essential. In my experience, web analytics at museums have been the last thing on people’s busy timetables. Most organisations report the most basic level of statistics to their funding bodies and leave it at that, yet they offer the best and most immediate opportunity to see exactly what users are doing on your site and how they are using it.

Redesigning the ExpressionEngine website

Observing design process is always interesting, particularly if the results is both functional and beautiful. Review the site here: ExpressionEngine.com.

Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain talks about about the redesign in this article.

Design View/Any Rutledge-Web Standards: It's about quality, not compliance.

The Web standards movement faces widespread resistance and apathy, in part, for the most ridiculous of reasons. These reasons are unnecessarily supported by poorly chosen terminology and how the message is being communicated.

Web-Typography

Graphic designers know that layouts with a consistent baseline will look much better than inconsistent ones. Even if you are not a graphic designer, this is an easy way to make your text look tidy. Check out Baseline Rhythm Calculator, and see how it can be used to generate a basic stylesheet with the proper calculations. The unwritten rule in web-typography says that the perfect proportion lies somewhere between 1:1.5 and 1:1.7.

11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts

Business companies tend to impress visitors with solid site structures, precise navigation and the credibility of presented content. Therefore business layouts are usually quite unspectacular, mostly informative, but not attractive. It’s an appropriate approach if you want to inform your visitors, but what should you do if you want to attract users’ attention? How to combine serious tone with attractive design? Smashing Magazine decided to figure it out and selected 11 almost perfect business designs / layouts used by companies from different countries of the world.

70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding

Smashing Magazine does it again with a superb list of little CSS tips & tricks to increase your productivity.

Unlocking the mysteries of Webspeak

Maybe it's because the Internet is a social haunt of the young, or maybe it's because network technology is a science that requires specific terminology, but the Web has always had a jargon all its own.

Personas and Storytelling

"Personas work because they tell stories. Stories are part of every community. They communicate culture, organize and transmit information. Most importantly, they spark the imagination as you explore new ideas. They can ignite action." - courtesy of craig marion