Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
BIG NEWS:
RITA® finalists? We’ve got five. Big Wax congrats to Julia Quinn, Jane Porter, Jennie Lucas, Joy Nash, and Laura Lee Guhrke. Each author has a link at the top of her home page news leading to the book that might bring her a RITA. Enjoy!
NEW BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH:
JENESI ASH released Naughty Bits [...]
Back when Google was just baby talk and Netscape (remember that?) was The Way to get around, web designers regularly embedded keywords into meta data. There were rules against keyword spamming, and consultants charged hefty fees for optimizing them. In the first edition of the book I co-wrote with Kelly Goto (©2001) we even offered [...]
If a site is giving you trouble, suspect your browser first. Just this morning we received this from a client trying to use the custom database web-app that we built for her:
I don’t think it’s my computer, because it only happens with the database – but when I try to check the info link on [...]
Someone was doing some seriously creative thinking.
Bravo OK Go! Wired has a great article on how this Rube Goldberg machine was built, but feat of engineering or not, it’s beautiful to watch.
