Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
When someone says your name for the first time, how often is it mispronounced? Even with a name as obvious as mine, well over half the time it comes back to me as “Colter” or “Cutler.”
But some folks have it made. Their names are easy to pronounce. Nora Roberts. Julia Quinn. Jane Porter.
And this is [...]
When you advertise something on your site, be complete. If your product contains parts, list all those parts. Here is what happened:
My daughter (not pictured here, this is a totally random child), newly enamored of The Wizard of Oz, must have ruby slippers for Halloween. Dorothy, however, is aggressively trademarked, making finding her exact wardrobe [...]
Yet one more reason to correctly and legally copyright design:
Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic (WIRED)
This article also highlights the practice of designing “on spec” — that is, you get paid if we pick your design. Designing on spec has historically been advised against by the Graphic Artists Guild, and the design [...]
We recently stopped testing new sites in Internet Explorer 6. Why? Two reasons: First, it’s just an awful browser. We end up having to take perfectly lovely code and add hours of hacks just to make a site function at a passable level on IE6. And secondly: budget. It is a colossal waste of client resources [...]
Last month, on her birthday no less, we launched Stephanie Tyler’s new site. It was so exciting for us that had she not been across the country, we would have brought over cupcakes.
StephanieTyler.com is a big site. It is content-rich, and not just in the blog. However, two potential problems with a huge site exist:
A) [...]
